Let’s step back a little bit and look at this astronomical picture from a different angle.

Some of the bits of animal bone found alongside early humanoid remain show strange etchings that have been proven* to be recorded observations of moon phases and other astronomical phenomena that occur simultaneously with seasonal changes on Earth. Those pre-stone age people probably thought they had it all nailed down - they understood Nature.

* [Alexander Marshack, “The Roots of Civilization”, 1972]

When the earliest civilizations appeared, they developed their own “truth” about what was going on in the skies and how Earth fit into the scheme. Each new generation of thought battled against the previously one.

During the last two centuries, various scientists in their own way have become the “definitive” authority that “finally solved” the riddles of Earth and its cosmic surroundings, and of the powers that run time and motion.

However, it seems that nearly every Hubble telescope image that arrives in NASA’s computers tears down some astronomical “truth” and replaces it with a whole new set of questions to be asked.

And our own work - the focus of this conference - is unveiling the evidence that we are now facing yet another shift in our perspective, this one truly epochal, challenging many “laws” in contemporary physics.

I ask: Why should this process end here? Isn’t every discovery yet another step up a ladder of human awareness? Each higher step affords a whole new view; wholly different questions are posed that were previously beyond even our imagination.

In pursuing the answers to these new questions, in contemplating the new observations, our consciousness expands -- and it seems, oddly enough, that the universe in front of our gaze expands too.

As this process unfolds we must be very careful to revise what may be inadequate or incorrect models to describe our expanding vision of the world. And more importantly, we must guard against making premature assumptions before we collect and evaluate the observational evidence.

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