Comments on: A Form of Not Being Sure

By: John Merryman

John Merryman — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 19:06:26 +0000

But doesn’t knowing something open our minds to proportionally more questions? So that would mean we are even more alive.

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 21:52:28 +0000

Sean:

Nice post thanks. Let me comment what i feel with all these science studies that pretend to explain science (in context or not). Suppose that they find something very deep, essential to scientific knowledge production. At the same moment science will be dead (or perhaps will be converted into technology). It is impossible to know why science works, if you do it you kill it.

The same applies to any artistic activity.

Happy new year, and thanks for your post in this very nice blog.

By: Freiddie

Freiddie — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:12:54 +0000

Artistic, but math-lacking. It needs a few more equations etched into it (say, formula for entropy?).

By: The Almighty Bob

The Almighty Bob — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 00:03:09 +0000

I thought it was a spiral-torsion spring. The Victorians used them for a remarkable amount of things, and I've read at least one SF story that suggested they could replace the internal combustion engine...

By: B

Sat, 05 Jan 2008 17:28:52 +0000

Random Association - it's a Haribo Liquorice Spiral. Amusingly the website lists it as 'benchmark of German design', maybe I should pin a couple of them to my walls.

By: EJ

EJ — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:33:27 +0000

What does the line at the top say?

By: daisy rose

daisy rose — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:40:52 +0000

The surprise moment – when you say YES – the forest is open – nothing else matters . Who is this Costa guy ? – When it comes to the real thing everyone knows it when they see it. I do and of that I am sure.

By: MedallionOfFerret

MedallionOfFerret — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:57:51 +0000

Not to upset anyone or anything like that, but I’ve seen copies of this same Costa work titled simply “Arrow”, not “Time’s Arrow”. I’m not sure Costa even put a title to it–it may be mere marketing by a copy-making company to even call it “Arrow”.

Perhaps Costa thought of it as “Brown Coil Thingy With Arty Philosophical Text”. Doesn’t matter–I’d hang it on the wall of my office too (if I had an office).

By: Plato

Plato — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:23:49 +0000

I think you loose something when you do not include the writing at the top?

By: Alf

Alf — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 07:12:00 +0000

“The artist never entirely knows. We guess; we may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.”

Isn’t this even an accurate description of the big game i.e. science.