Nonsensical Answers to Pointless Questions

Looking into space with a telescope.

How far can one reach with the Hubble?
How deep can one bend one's eye?
Mirrors reflect and magnify,
But how does one see without any light?

How to break the human heart.

How many breaths plunged to 'cross the Chunnel?
...
The only invention Man devised to break the heart is a funnel.


- The two sections above are from a poem I wrote. I can't remember the rest but maybe it'll come back to me or it's in a notebook I left at my parents house.

Additional explanation about the lines below

Deep? Outer space? 

 

What is the way to light, to find salvation?

I'm looking into myself. I see down a bottomless darkness. I can't tell if I detect light. I can amplify the signal, but is there any signal to begin with? Or is it random background noise from my instruments?

How far out into empty space do I need to look to find something?
How deep and long do I need to stare at nothingness within for light to appear?

Inspired by discussion that has been going on over the last 50 years over the need for Space exploration vs Ocean Discovery. Both are a means to find for sustainable life in the future. Here's a more recent article rehashing some of the arguments.

The difference of opinion is when you search, is what you're looking for without or within?

Why bend?

 

What we see is not a direct detection of incoming light. Our man-made tools and the eyes nature gives us bend light to create an image.

The Hubble is a Cassegrain reflector telescope. Light is bent through reflecting mirrors to magnify the image. We don't see the object directly.  Light travels toward us, then is reflected away to a second mirror before reflected back to the observer's eye.

Our eyes also bend incoming light, but in a different way - through a refracting lens. The image produced is upside down. Our brain needs to flip the image to see what we want to.

The brain can even correct itself when the image it receives is already right-side up.

Your brain CAN be retrained though. In one psychological study, participants were asked to wear inverting lenses - lenses that invert the image BEFORE they get to your eye, so that when your eye inverts it, it's right-side-up. At first, everything appeared upside-down to the participants. But, after a few days, people began to report that everything appeared right-side-up! As a second part of the study, the people were asked to take the glasses off. Because they were now used to the lenses, their NORMAL vision appeared upside-down!! Within a day, though, their vision returned to normal. The reason you don't see everything upside-down, then, is simply because it's easier to think about right-side-up! 

reference: How do we see things upright if the image formed on the retina in our eye is an inverted one?

How much do we need to bend our eyes to see what we are looking for?

Chunnel?

It is this narrow, 21-mile strait that has tested the mettle of man and woman. August 25, 1875, Matthew Webb set out to swim these perilous waters, completing the journey from England to France in just less than 22 hours.

reference

Why a funnel?

 

A funnel makes a wide opening into a narrow exit. I use it to pour cooking oil. Fat and grease, over time, clog arteries and can cause the heart to fail.

Arteries clogged with fat change from wide to narrow, like a funnel, and produce pressure. The heart tries to push against the constricted flow and eventually gives out.

Imagine a wide range of human emotion and ambition continually forced through a tight narrow passage. I can think of no other mechanical tool suited to break the heart like the funnel.