Tomato Mint Salad

20220902, #breakfastdiary 532, 21°C/clear, 22 min/exercise Tomato with apple mint, walnuts, olive oil, and white balsamic for a touch of sweetness — #tomatosalad Even when observing celestial bodies, snap judgments like that won't do. You have to look closely at many different facets. But within a mayfly-like human lifespan, it's hard to survey the billions-of-years-long life of a star in full. All we can get is a snapshot of what a star is like 'today,' at this one point in its life. Still, even a snapshot like that is easier to understand when viewed across multiple wavelengths. Many of the nebula photos you see online are false-color composites, shot across visible light, infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray, and other wavelength bands. Looking at only one wavelength is like the blind men and the elephant. To bring out the structure inside and around a nebula, and its many components, astronomers use exactly these kinds of multi-wavelength composite images. (Shim Chae-kyung, 'The Breadth of Spectral Possibility') If you think of a single human being as a single universe, containing within it a whole spectrum the person themselves may not even be aware of, then declaring 'this person is like this, that person is like that' starts to look like a fairly risky thing to do.