First, we watched a documentary about the mysterious Chauvet Caves in France, the Cave of Forgotten Dreams by Werner Herzog. Discovered by three spelunkers back in the 1990's, these caves kept many astounding paintings of horses, cave bears, ibexes, and lions in perfect shape for millenia. The quality of the drawings takes my breath away, particularly the detail of the animals' faces and mouths. While there was immediate suspicion that the paintings were a hoax, carbon dating estimates they were painted about 30,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. And...there were no human footprints in the caves. Instead, they found cave bear skulls and bones that were calcified by the centuries, covered in a thick layer of the cave's calcifications. Below is the most amazing painting of horses. The quality of the renderings shatters my previous assumptions about humans and prehistoric art. You can read more about the caves and see more paintings here.
Then the other night we watched Steven Hawking's Discovery Channel special on time travel. He argues that there are tiny wormholes and holes in time, all around us, all the time. They are smaller than microscopic. This gets me wondering whether flashes of inspiration, feelings of deja vu, genius, clairvoyance, etc. might be somehow related to these anomalies in the fabric of time.
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