The Leftovers: “I Live Here Now” (Season 2 : Episode 10Kevin Garvey (Justin Theroux) “Homeward Bound”
Song: Homeward Bound
Lyrics: Simon & Garfunkel
I'm sitting in the railway station
Got a ticket to my destination
On a tour of one-night stands
my suitcase and guitar in hand
And every stop is neatly planned
for a poet and a one-man band
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escaping
Home where my music's playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Every day's an endless stream
Of cigarettes and magazines
And each town looks the same to me,
the movies and the factories
And every stranger's face I see
reminds me that I long to be
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escaping
Home where my music's playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Tonight I'll sing my songs again
I'll play the game and pretend
But all my words come back to me
in shades of mediocrity
Like emptiness in harmony
I need someone to comfort me
Homeward bound
I wish I was
Homeward bound
Home where my thought's escaping
Home where my music's playing
Home where my love lies waiting
Silently for me
Silently for me
"... the highest passion in a [hu]man is faith, and here no generation begins at any other point than did the preceding generation, every generation begins all over again..."
"There are perhaps many in every generation who do not even reach it, but no one gets further."
"'One must go further, one must go further.'"
from "Fear and Trembling" by Søren Kierkegaard
Blade Runner, 1982Track from: Blade Runner (Soundtrack) by Vangelis
"I've seen things you people wouldn't believe...
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion...
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.
All those
moments will be lost in time,
like tears in rain..".
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Liver goes down to Texas and has tea with a maid.
She says “Thanks. Let’s move on.”
Meanwhile, angles dance on pigeon wings and lift spirits on high.
Local teens run in streams of ever lasting byes.
Sentences steam and puke up yesterdays bile and kings and queens on satin beds read newspapers from the Nile.
Greeks midst pantheons, with noses turned up high.
The Shah in Persia-Old buried beneath the tide.
Plague creeps down city streets freeing up many beds.
Blunt edged swords sever from the shoulders up, leave empty heads.
Cinnamon, salt, pepper, thyme on bread sliced by time.
Music plays unheard, books open unread.
This year spring proceeds summer as fall’s a corpse in the gorge.
“My name’s May” she says.
The Oolong will do fine.
SOTO is an interactive web-based tool, created by NASA’s Physical Oceanography DAAC (PO.DAAC) to generate informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans.
The suite of tools provide access to a broad range of satellite-derived products and key parameters of interest to the oceanographic community.
Earth breathes, in this animation that plots the accretion (brown) and abatement (green) of atmospheric Carbon (C) in the atmosphere (Image credit: Markus Reichstein / Creative Commons license)
Melancholic melody
Played in the key of flat D,
Somber metered masquerade,
Times the harlequin charade
When the span of 'man is past,
Promenade emptied of parade,
And passed, the one that shall be last,
When clock-springs at last unspool,
And history long forgotten,
By reckoning celestial,
A drop unexceptional
In infinity's pool
For whom shall it then mournfully play?
What doleful dancer shall its tune sway?
When all built lies in desolate ruin,
Who shall listen to “Clair de lune?
Suite bergamasque, Third movement by Claude Debussy
Clair de lune (French Poem)
by: Paul Verlaine
Votre âme est un paysage choisi
Que vont charmant masques et bergamasques
Jouant du luth et dansant et quasi
Tristes sous leurs déguisements fantasques.
Tout en chantant sur le mode mineur
L'amour vainqueur et la vie opportune
Ils n'ont pas l'air de croire à leur bonheur
Et leur chanson se mêle au clair de lune,
Au calme clair de lune triste et beau,
Qui fait rêver les oiseaux dans les arbres
Et sangloter d'extase les jets d'eau,
Les grands jets d'eau sveltes parmi les marbres
Your soul, a landscape of choice made Where charming masquerading dancers parade, Playing the lute as they promenade ecstatic, Sad beneath disguises fantastic.
While singing a minor key tune Of vanquishing love and a life opportune, They are incredulous of their own boon, As their song blends with light of the moon.
From that light of the moon, happiness flees, While the birds sleep dreaming in the trees, It bathes sobbing fountains inconsolable, While svelte water streams among statues of marble.
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is a space telescope developed by NASA with contributions from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
Mission
“ Through the Looking GLASS: A James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Exploration of Galaxy Formation and Evolution from Cosmic Dawn to Present Day
Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) is one of JWST Director’s Discretionary Early Release Science Programs, and will be focused on two main science areas: (1) understanding the reionization of the universe less than 1 billion years after the Big Bang: (2) understanding how gas and heavy elements are distributed (chemical abundance) within and around galaxies over time.
Focus Area (1) Ionization is the process by which an atom or a molecule acquires a negative or positive charge by gaining or losing electrons, often in conjunction with other chemical changes. In the fields of Big Bang theory and cosmology, reionization is the process that caused matter in the universe to reionize after the lapse of the “dark ages” which began around 370,000 years after the Big Bang. During the Dark Ages, the temperature of the universe cooled from some 4,000 (K)elvin to about 60 K (3,727 °C to about −213 °C) and though the universe was transparent it was dark, as only two sources of photons (visible light) existed: (a) the photons released during recombination or decoupling (as neutral hydrogen atoms formed), which we can still detect today as the cosmic microwave background (CMB); (b) photons occasionally released by neutral hydrogen atoms.
While the majority of baryonic matter in the universe is in the form of hydrogen and helium, reionization usually refers strictly to the reionization of hydrogen. Baryonic matter is a type of composite subatomic particle which contains an odd number of valence quarks (at least 3) and belong to the hadron family of particles which includes protons and the neutrons.
Schematic timeline of the universe, depicting reionization’s place in cosmic history.
(2) The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrence of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment. The abundance of chemical elements in the universe is dominated by the large amounts of hydrogen and helium which were produced in the Big Bang. Remaining elements, making up only about 2% of the universe, were largely produced by supernovae and red giant stars.
Periodic table showing the cosmological origin of each element
Method
GLASS will combine the natural magnifying power of gravitational lensing, caused by the massive galaxy cluster Abell 2744 (one of the Frontier Fields), with JWST’s incredible sensitivity to measure detailed properties of distant galaxies in the early universe.
Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years. It is located approximately 4 billion light years from Earth. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The cluster’s gas (accounting for around 20 percent of the cluster’s mass) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays. And dark matter makes up the remaining 75 percent of the cluster’s mass.
Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora’s Cluster. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The gas (around 20 percent) is so hot that it shines only in X-rays (coloured red in this image). The distribution of invisible dark matter (making up around 75 percent of the cluster’s mass) is coloured here in blue.
Dark matter does not emit, absorb, or reflect light, but it makes itself apparent through its gravitational attraction. To pinpoint the location of this elusive substance gravitational lensing is exploited. A gravitational lens is a distribution of matter (such as a cluster of galaxies) between a distant light source and an observer, that is capable of bending the light from the source as the light travels toward the observer. This bending of light rays from distant galaxies as they pass through the gravitational field created by the cluster forms a series of telltale distortions in the images of galaxies observed in the background of observations from the Hubble and Very Large Telescope (VLT). The mass of Abel 2744 will act as a sort of massive but distant focal lense.
Bending light around a massive object from a distant source. The orange arrows show the apparent position of the background source. The white arrows show the path of the light from the true position of the source.
Key Science Drivers
(1) To shed light upon the role of galaxies in reionizing the universe, the topology of high redshift intergalactic/interstellar medium and on Lyman alpha escape fraction. A redshift is an increase in the wavelength, and corresponding decrease in the frequency and photon energy, of electromagnetic radiation (such as light). The opposite change, a decrease in wavelength and simultaneous increase in frequency and energy, is known as a negative redshift, or blueshift. The value of a redshift is often denoted by the letter z, corresponding to the fractional change in wavelength (positive for redshifts, negative for blueshifts), and by the wavelength ratio 1 + z (which is >1 for redshifts, <1 for blueshifts). It is commonly believed that galaxies at z ≳ 5 are the dominant sources for cosmic reionization. The escape fraction of Lyman-continuum (LyC), or hydrogen ionizing photons from these galaxies is hence an important question for understanding the reionization process.
(2) To study: (a) gas accretion, the accumulation of particles into a massive object by gravitationally attracting more matter); (b) star formation and outflows by mapping spatially resolved star formation, where spatial resolution is a measure of the smallest object that can be resolved by the sensor; (c) metallicity, the abundance of elements present in an object that are heavier than hydrogen and helium) gradients in galaxies at z = 1.3 – 2.3.
(3) To study the environmental dependence of galaxy evolution.
