Travel Theme: Circles

Travel theme: Circles is this week’s theme in “Where’s my backpack?”

A circle is a reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end.

Circles are a two-dimensional concept. Many of the things we see, however, are three-dimensional – a dome, a sphere,  a ball etc but intelligent people like Einstein can even visualize the fourth dimension. Einstein once said the following to help people visualize the fourth dimension –  Take a point, stretch it into a line, curl it into a circle, twist it into a sphere, and punch through the space .. .

I was fascinated by the many circles inside the Blue Mosque, Turkey. Entering the Blue Mosque in Istanbul I was surrounded by an array of circles. Built in the 17th century, it has one of the world’s largest dome of 27.5 meters diameter, in addition to four smaller domes  and 30 even smaller  domes.

The huge dome hover above me, with suspended chandeliers that follow their shape only a few meters from the ground.   The endless lamps, hanging on their endless chains and hovering in great circles above my head, are miracles in their own right.

After seeing all these domes, arches, circle of lights in the Blue Mosque, I must admit I still do not have the faintest idea of what Einstein meant by the fourth dimension. I only knew that I have stepped back in time. . . . .  I have been thrown into a space where  circles and light predominate and was awed by them.