In August of 2007, scientists found a one billion light-year sized hole in the universe. Left to my unending curiosity, I’ve done a bit of thinking. And now, I’d like to offer the few ideas I had about the discovery. Ponder what intrigues, enjoy what silliness entertains.

Theory #1 - The Hole — the cold spot — is the area associated with the events of the Big Bang.

Not unlike a crater on some surface, this cold spot could represent an area where billions of years ago, the event we commonly refer to as The Big Bang, took place. While over time space itself (we believe) has expanded, one would expect most everything was expelled outward from that point at extremely high temperatures (leaving the most immediate area entirely barren). Everything was “vaporized” or more accurately put, transitioned to highly energetic plasma and gas. The CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) tells how just how it was distributed. Does this “hole” give us an indicate from where?

Theory #2 - The Hole is Aliens!

By creating electromagnetic fields many linear detection methods can be deflected or subverted. It makes sense, at least depending on how you look at projects like SETI. And, of course these aliens would need to know the ole’ saying: out of sight — out of mind.

Theory #3 - The Hole represents the discovery of new physics

Last, the most likely: this region of space contains unknown properties or material with unknown properties to physics. This would lead to our inability to make accurate detections and potentially offer us a region of space that seemed to lack all features. We’ve only narrowly escaped our home venue of Earth. While it may seem a radical idea to accept, there is no evidence that our observations from Earth aren’t dramatically limited to a subset of realities describable by our derived physics only.

The bloggers are coming! The bloggers are coming!

If video killed the Radio Star, the Label imprisoned, tortured, enslaved, packaged and sold her. But, if any of that is true… the Internet climbed her lonely tower and set her free. And the media made it all very apparent. However, these days there is the need to ask, of which Media did it? The regular media… or those people everyone relegates to the title “bloggers.” Those people who are becoming the media.

Watching the likes of Smashing Pumpkins, Nine Inch Nails, Oasis, and now, even Madonna, among many others, begin a conversion toward selling their art directly has shown me the truth. And its an odd truth at that — this is the way things were meant to be — artist and audience — and we’ve known it all along. Though, why and how did we let things get this way? The easy answer is money.

The person to ask is perhaps Jello Biafra knows. But, why him? Because, the further truth is, Jello Biafra told us this was coming. My guess is, back then, not too many people were listening. Except maybe the guys over at Memestreams, who from 2001 until recently held the complete quote “Don’t hate the media. Become the media.” as banner across the blogging and news-related aggregation, and social networking site.

Early on with the idea, “Become the Media“, also the title to Biafra’s sixth spoken word album, Jello captured what would become the philosophy of the new movement present on the Internet today (and likely across society). Its not an idea just for the Internet commoner. Its an idea that transcends expression because thats what the media is: a perspective on expression and reality. That means through the media people can attain an understanding of how much attention they receive from the world. Unfortunately, it also means, they can use the media to control how much attention they receive from the world.

No, becoming the media is not limited to people who have lacked a voice, and yes, it is about having control. Even for celebrities, who already had our attention, “becoming the media” is important and a growing trend. Between the explosion of the broad idea of social networking and simply blogging itself (as a means for an individual to communicate with society — or socially network), many things about our world have changed. Changes at these top levels of culture, especially in our arts and artists, will only cause that process to continue and at a greater rate going forward.

Becoming the media… how becoming.