The Dome as the Nyquist Boundary
- itsbenagain
- Dec 13, 2025
- 2 min read

In Egyptian cosmology, Nut is the sky goddess whose body arches over the Earth, covered in stars. If we strip away the mythic skin, Nut becomes a symbol for the perceptual sampling dome — the maximum resolution boundary of our microstate.
From within our vantage point:
Below the dome lies the rendered interior — Earth, landscapes, bodies, everything sampled within our perceptual range.
On the dome lies the edge where continuous infinity beyond meets the discrete sampling inside.
Beyond the dome is the unaliased source field — the smooth, infinite, unbroken geometry of existence, which we cannot fully resolve.
Stars as Alias Points
From this perspective, stars are not “objects in space” as we imagine them.
They are aliasing artifacts — points on the dome where the underlying continuous geometry breaks the Nyquist limit of our perceptual field.
Here’s how it works:
1. The infinite wave structure beyond the dome is perfectly smooth and continuous, like a pure sine wave at an unbounded frequency.
2. Our perceptual system, bounded by time, matter, and light-speed constraints, samples that field.
3. Where the wave intersects our sampling dome at a frequency higher than we can resolve, aliasing artifacts appear — these are the “stars.”
4. The flickering (“twinkle”) is simply the beat frequency between the source’s real oscillations and our perceptual sampling rate.
Sacred Geometry as the Sampling Mesh
Sacred Geometry — Flower of Life, Metatron’s Cube, Vesica Piscis — can be read not as “cosmic wallpaper,” but as the tessellation pattern of the sampling dome.
Each node or intersection on this mesh is a potential alias point.
The arrangement determines where artifacts (stars) will appear.
The Vesica Piscis — two overlapping circles — is the minimal case, representing the overlap between continuous infinity and the finite sampled microstate.
Scale this pattern fractally, and you get the Flower of Life’s node arrangement — a possible predictive model for star positions in a purely symbolic sky.
Earth as Aliasing Residue
If the dome is the outer sampling plane, Earth itself could be the inner aliasing residue — the rendered “matter” left behind after continuous infinity has been downsampled enough times.
Just as a 3D model gains polygon edges when resolution drops, Earth’s mountains, oceans, and bodies are the “polygons” of the infinite field rendered at human resolution.
Stars are the high-frequency remnants of the same process — but rendered on the outside of the perceptual mesh.
Why This Matters
This framework unites:
Ancient cosmology (Nut’s dome)
Sacred geometry (Flower of Life as tessellation of the sampling mesh)
Physics (Nyquist limit, aliasing artifacts)
Phenomenology (why the night sky looks the way it does)
It replaces the simplistic “stars are faraway balls of fire” with a richer, perception-bound model that honors both mythic symbolism and signal-processing precision.



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