George Ellery Hale (1868-1938) founded Yerkes Observatory, Mt Wilson Observatory and Palomar Observatory. Beginning at age 42, Hale received regular visits from an elf who advised him on numerous matters, including the administration of Mt Wilson and the planning for Palomar.
All life is only a set of pictures in the brain, among which there is no difference betwixt those born of real things and those born of inward dreamings, and no cause to value the one above the other. – H.P. Lovecraft
There is no such thing as empty space or empty time There is always something to hear or something to see. In fact, try as we might to make a silence, we cannot. For certain engineering purposes, it is desirable to have as silent a situation as possible. Such a room is called an anechoic chamber, its walls made of special materials, a room without echoes. I entered one at Harvard University… and heard two sounds, one a high and one a low. When I described them to the engineer in charge, he informed me that the high one was my nervous system and the low one was my blood circulation. – John Cage