Flashbacks

Receiving and sending a lot of packages.
Remembering something. Got to practice digital painting again.

Today on the bus to work, I remembered two images from unknown time ago. Trying to extract info from the feelings that accompanied the images.

Not sure if this is related to playing Alien: Isolation, or related to a few recent discussions related to metamaterials and optics.

Huge beige-walled structure

It looks futuristic with its smooth vertical edges and corners. Horizontal edges are sharp. There's no roof, just walls, rectangular archways and bridges. The surface looks beige, somewhat rugged but it's not stone. It has strong horizontal lines. The walls aren't hollow - they're full of technology. At specific times some tall beings gather there. For most of the time, the structure is empty, collecting dust / small-grained sand. The beings are quiet, they don't talk with sounds.

Computer

An image of a black rock-like structure. It seems as if the image is zoomed in a bit (with a blurred background). There are small blobs of (dust?) moving around. The structure consists of horizontal layers of slightly different shapes. There's a feeling of reverence towards this structure, if handled at all, it is to be handled carefully. Not because it's fragile but because it's powerful. There are a few symbols related to the image (both on the image as well as not on the image - like a non-transparent overlay that doesn't occlude the image). The symbols are all surrounded by white squares with black outlines.

Other

There's something about this guy's art on pixiv. Some of the images trigger feeling that's a bit similar to the images I "remembered".

Other than that, today morning I happened on the bus with a cosmologist. Asked his take on the finite vs. infinite universe debate. He had somewhat similar ideas, with a somewhat different perspective. Realized that within an infinite multiverse soup, the assumption of balance doesn't have to hold. And here I thought that already with that assumption there's a lot of possibilities.

Missed a bus back to town. Saw the bus stop at the bus stop and without blinking, turned around (I was 1 min or 1.5 min too late) and walked the kilometer back. Would've caught the next bus for sure, unless the cosmologists hadn't picked me up. Listened to their internal discussion and wondered if any of that would spawn additional thoughts. Started to wonder if (assuming a dense universe) it's possible to determine whether the universe has fixtures. Based on an old Kevin Smith Show interview about Jerry Wills' experience through the Aramu Muru gateway, the universe was in a white room, fastened with strands that had lights moving back and forth. If that's the case and it's a finite universe (should be easier to create in lab), then a dense universe should have internal stresses (and thus, non-uniformity in the growth of the universe). Not sure if the current measurements already disagree with this or not, but in any case the assumption of uniformity should not be made (I hope cosmologists have taken that into account). They were discussing the redshift.