¶ Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Electromagnetic Spectrum:
“Very, very slow changes identify humans as inanimate. Slow change of pattern they call animate and natural. Fast changes they call explosive, and faster events than that humans cannot sense directly. They can see the rocket blasted off at 7,000 mile per hour. They cannot see the hundred thousand times faster radar pulse moving 700 million miles per hour. Humans can sense only the position of pointers on instrument dials. What they call ‘radio’-- electromagnetics-- they learn of through scientific instrumentation. Of the total electromagnetic spectrum range of the now known realities of Universe, man has the sensory equipment to tune in directly with but one-millionth of the thus-far discovered physical Universe events. Awareness of all the rest of the millionfold greater- than-human-sense-reality can only be relayed to human ken through instruments, devised by a handful of thought-employing individuals anticipating thoughtfully the looming needs of others.”
¶ Citations
- RBF Introduction to Gene Youngblood’s EXPANDED CINEMA, P. 25. Oct’70
