Sun-Sim (eng)

Глава 1Recall a child drawing the sun for the first time. He does not consult astrophysical treatises or measure radiation spectra — he simply takes a yellow pencil and traces a circle with rays onto the paper. This sun is not an exact copy of the real celestial body. It is a sign, endowed with an ultimate, almost sacred simplicity. It is warm, kind, and lives in the sky. The child does not doubt its authenticity, for it so clearly conveys his inner feeling. Before us is the first, naïve simulacrum: not a reflection of reality, but its substitution, born from pure idea and direct embodiment. It does not deceive; it is the truth, until one day someone shows the child a photograph of the Sun taken through a telescope, and he sees, instead of a cozy face, a raging hell of thermonuclear reactions. Which of these realities is more authentic? The one that warms the soul, or the one that gover…