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Pink Floyd, before Dark Side of the Moon ...
Pink Floyd - Cymbaline (1969)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
The path you tread is narrow, and the drop is sheer and very high
The ravens all are watching from a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end? Will the final couplet rhyme?
[Chorus]
And it's high time, Cymbaline
It's high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me
[Verse 2]
A butterfly with broken wings is falling by your side
The ravens all are closing in, there's nowhere you can hide
Your manager and agent are both busy on the phone
Selling coloured photographs to magazines back home
[Chorus]
And it's high time, Cymbaline
It's high time, Cymbaline
Please, wake me
[Verse 3]
The lines converging where you stand
They must have moved the picture plane
The leaves are heavy around your feet
You hear the thunder of the train
Suddenly it strikes you that they're moving into range
And Doctor Strange is always changing size
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Trump levels stunning criticisms against Zelensky after Russia talks
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... President Trump sharply criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday, after U.S. officials met for talks with Russia, from which Ukraine was excluded.
Why it matters: Trump's comments -- falsely suggesting Ukraine started the war and that Zelensky is deeply unpopular with his own people -- will supercharge fears among Ukraine and U.S. allies that the Trump administration is siding with Moscow ahead of possible peace talks.
- - - They could also increase the tension and suspicion between the Trump administration and the Zelensky government.
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@#8 ... They can't accept this might be more significant than their Trump obsession. ...
For me, quite the contrary.
My concern on this thread is the profit motive.
As you note, he's trying to sell a book.
That just demeans the scientific aspect of what he is proffering.
For the record, my current view is along the lines of...
We are likely not the only ones in the universe.
How do we know that there are not aliens among us already? I mean, if "they" have managed inter-stellar transport, might they already have managed to blend in?
Now, look at the multi-universe theory...
Multiverse
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... The multiverse is the hypothetical set of all universes.[1][a] Together, these universes are presumed to comprise everything that exists: the entirety of space, time, matter, energy, information, and the physical laws and constants that describe them. The different universes within the multiverse are called "parallel universes", "flat universes", "other universes", "alternate universes", "multiple universes", "plane universes", "parent and child universes", "many universes", or "many worlds". One common assumption is that the multiverse is a "patchwork quilt of separate universes all bound by the same laws of physics."[2] ...
Give that a while to sink in.
What we do not know far exceeds what we do know.
Circling back, this guy seems to have a book to sell.
Not science.
John Mayall - The Laws Must Change (1969)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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