Newton's three laws and me
How I understand these laws is thinking about a mountain. It just stays there without moving until the snow stars flying. As the snow accumulates to such a depth that it starts an avalache of snow cascading down the mountain only stopping when it has dispersed all the excess - so there is no more friction left (first law). Second law again the avalache's acceleration is proportional to the weight of the snow and also by the depth of it's mass. Whatever is in the path of the avalache is hit by the force of its pressure and the pressure of an object in its way exerts it's force. Picturing a volcano works about the same way.
Our energy efficient culture
Our native culture certainly understood the value of consequences that affected 7 generations past them and would ponder those consequences before making changes. We haven't as a culture embraced that value, but as the pinch of energy costs and consequences hit us in the face, we are beginning to welcome more efficient sources for fuel, housing, transportation, etc. It seems that we just starting running with a completely different mentality for centuries, but are not waking up to the benefits that are available by being more energy efficient.
Descartes influence
Well for sure his theories helped spawn the industrial revolution and all that came as a consequence of that, but that seems to be our process. We think the world is flat - go with that theory until we are proven wrong. I'm sure all the technology to come out of the industrial revolution has been profoundly useful, but it came with such a solid belief system that kept people in concrete walls of scientific technology that it didn't leave room for other belief systems that challenged the prevailing one. Ah similar to George and his belief systems. Lots of damage happens around that rigid of a system that we are just beginning to get a sense of the lost connections.
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Friday, June 20, 2008
week five symmetry and sacred geometry
My (a)symmetrical world
It turns out we as humans are pretty symmetrical in some areas: ear size, digit length and for women breast size. Digging around I found studies that if the breast sizes were asymmetrical it often indicated an increase rate of breast cancer. It seems symmetry is all around us. Looking at an orchid I was watering - not problem - you could cut the flower in half and it was the exact mirror of each side. Many living organisms display this pattern. However there are also examples that display asymmetry like the crabs that have one huge claw and another that is much smaller. These are atypical of the natural world, but have evolved like that for some reason. From ancient times symbols that show symmetry like the yin yang diagram and the ones used in Buddhist symbolism were valued for what they taught people about life. All around us in space and time, particle interactions mimic these symmetrical patterns.
CP violation
CP violation has to do with the difference in decay time between various particles. The universe was born with equal amounts of matter and antimatter. It stands to reason that when you destroy matter you also destroy antimatter. However, in the universe some particles must exhibit a decay differential because there is always expansion in the universe. In other words the left over particles exhibit a property that is known as cp violation - it explains that matter and antimatter do not behave in identical ways.
Connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics
Dating back to the time mandalas first appeared in the first millennium, people understood the connections that were inherent in these forms that connected so much of life. Much later when Einstein "discovered " higher math concepts, it turns out these were the concepts being used to structure the mandalas. Rather mind blowing. There is also this practice that the Chinese devised thousands of years ago called the I Ching. In it there are 64 combinations of patterns that are used to help those seeking universal insights called hexagrams. Is it by chance that the human DNA has also 64 as a structure number? Patterns that are generated by planets revolving around the sun are similar patterns found in nature. For example, venus's path around the sun generates a pattern of a flower called the camelia that is in the rose family, We see evidence in the kabala tree of life drawing that corresponds very closely to the theory of relativity. The numeric structure of it corresponds to the Hebrew alphabet. It is through the use of our present day technology that we are able to just how insightful and scientific our ancestors were thousands of years ago.
It turns out we as humans are pretty symmetrical in some areas: ear size, digit length and for women breast size. Digging around I found studies that if the breast sizes were asymmetrical it often indicated an increase rate of breast cancer. It seems symmetry is all around us. Looking at an orchid I was watering - not problem - you could cut the flower in half and it was the exact mirror of each side. Many living organisms display this pattern. However there are also examples that display asymmetry like the crabs that have one huge claw and another that is much smaller. These are atypical of the natural world, but have evolved like that for some reason. From ancient times symbols that show symmetry like the yin yang diagram and the ones used in Buddhist symbolism were valued for what they taught people about life. All around us in space and time, particle interactions mimic these symmetrical patterns.
CP violation
CP violation has to do with the difference in decay time between various particles. The universe was born with equal amounts of matter and antimatter. It stands to reason that when you destroy matter you also destroy antimatter. However, in the universe some particles must exhibit a decay differential because there is always expansion in the universe. In other words the left over particles exhibit a property that is known as cp violation - it explains that matter and antimatter do not behave in identical ways.
Connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics
Dating back to the time mandalas first appeared in the first millennium, people understood the connections that were inherent in these forms that connected so much of life. Much later when Einstein "discovered " higher math concepts, it turns out these were the concepts being used to structure the mandalas. Rather mind blowing. There is also this practice that the Chinese devised thousands of years ago called the I Ching. In it there are 64 combinations of patterns that are used to help those seeking universal insights called hexagrams. Is it by chance that the human DNA has also 64 as a structure number? Patterns that are generated by planets revolving around the sun are similar patterns found in nature. For example, venus's path around the sun generates a pattern of a flower called the camelia that is in the rose family, We see evidence in the kabala tree of life drawing that corresponds very closely to the theory of relativity. The numeric structure of it corresponds to the Hebrew alphabet. It is through the use of our present day technology that we are able to just how insightful and scientific our ancestors were thousands of years ago.
week four energy, matter and the four forces
How has e=mc2 affected me?
On a very deep level, I cringe with knowing the effects that it can have on us through the combination of power and maybe greed. Maybe it was all the grade school years of practicing for a bomb threat that have come back to me when asked how this equation has affected me.
In reality, it is extremely important to remember that I can affect my energy by being aware of it and doing some basic monitoring of it in order to keep it moving through out the day. Practicing some form of meditation or qi gong is a goal to work on my energy with the help of a daily practice. I think it helps energize me to loose weight and build muscle - knowing I can affect my mass and energy in positive ways - that they are connected.
How to compare the four forces?
Comparable to peeling an onion, the outer layer of the onion keeps it all together in a similar way that gravity keeps everything in place in the universe. It is the force of attraction that is acting on every particle with another in nature. Going out to the weak nuclear force - this one is about working with the chemical elements in stars and supernova activities. They are like the clean up crew after a concert. Retrieving the garbage and sorting through it. The strong nuclear force is responsible for the force that powers the stars. Because of this huge bond that the nuclear force has it either keeps vast amounts of energy together or fused or its the power that is released with a fission reaction. Whew something like that anyway. The electromagnetic force is the one responsible for light being absorbed or emitted. We can see this in solar incidences like the sun dogs we see in Minnesota on a very cold day on either side of the sun.
Gravity is such an enormous force that keeps the whole solar system rotating and orbiting in an orderly fashion. This force also holds the energy in other galaxies in their place. It is a pull that draws masses of energy together and holds it while the multitude of planets, starts and energy in a solar system do their dance.
On a very deep level, I cringe with knowing the effects that it can have on us through the combination of power and maybe greed. Maybe it was all the grade school years of practicing for a bomb threat that have come back to me when asked how this equation has affected me.
In reality, it is extremely important to remember that I can affect my energy by being aware of it and doing some basic monitoring of it in order to keep it moving through out the day. Practicing some form of meditation or qi gong is a goal to work on my energy with the help of a daily practice. I think it helps energize me to loose weight and build muscle - knowing I can affect my mass and energy in positive ways - that they are connected.
How to compare the four forces?
Comparable to peeling an onion, the outer layer of the onion keeps it all together in a similar way that gravity keeps everything in place in the universe. It is the force of attraction that is acting on every particle with another in nature. Going out to the weak nuclear force - this one is about working with the chemical elements in stars and supernova activities. They are like the clean up crew after a concert. Retrieving the garbage and sorting through it. The strong nuclear force is responsible for the force that powers the stars. Because of this huge bond that the nuclear force has it either keeps vast amounts of energy together or fused or its the power that is released with a fission reaction. Whew something like that anyway. The electromagnetic force is the one responsible for light being absorbed or emitted. We can see this in solar incidences like the sun dogs we see in Minnesota on a very cold day on either side of the sun.
Gravity is such an enormous force that keeps the whole solar system rotating and orbiting in an orderly fashion. This force also holds the energy in other galaxies in their place. It is a pull that draws masses of energy together and holds it while the multitude of planets, starts and energy in a solar system do their dance.
Week three sychronicity
What evidence can I find for sychronicity:
Just examples from my own life that have been to large to ignore. One year I sent a small cloth angel to my youngest sister. We were very close and often bought the same thing for another person without awareness of what each of us had done. This particular year a cloth angel arrived for me and it was the exact one that I had sent to her to Christmas that year. So we sent each other the identical angel - brand and everything to each other that year.
Another dong experience or one that gets your attention happened in a remote camping area in Minnesota on a lake that was very difficult to access. While we were on the lake, I noticed a series of arrows carved into the stones at the water's edge. It was a breathtaking experience. When we got back to camp and were talking with another woman about it, she said she noticed it at about the same moment in time. What it means, I have no idea, but it felt like a synchronistic experience that we had shared on some kind of sacred space.
I do think it took someone like Jung to start researching it to put validity to it. Otherwise we wouldn't have given it such credence and start researching how unlikely events happen at the same time.
Connectivity - how to explain? Well the law of 6 degrees of separation comes to mind. We can be talking about someone and find out without too much effort that this person knows someone who knows someone that we know. Or something like that. It happens with such regularity and so it is just something that we come to accept is true. An interesting thing is that computers can actually validate this connection between people. There was an experiment where letters were sent out to people and were to be passed on to others to see where they ended up or how many people were connected with the exchange. It turned out many in the experiment ended up to have a 5.6 connection that validated the 6 degrees of separation theory. I find it often happens when I am thinking about someone a lot - even if I haven't had contact with them for a while, either of us will call the other person and often hear - I have been thinking about you so much lately. Seems our connects are there even if we cannot at this point prove it - we know what we know.
Just examples from my own life that have been to large to ignore. One year I sent a small cloth angel to my youngest sister. We were very close and often bought the same thing for another person without awareness of what each of us had done. This particular year a cloth angel arrived for me and it was the exact one that I had sent to her to Christmas that year. So we sent each other the identical angel - brand and everything to each other that year.
Another dong experience or one that gets your attention happened in a remote camping area in Minnesota on a lake that was very difficult to access. While we were on the lake, I noticed a series of arrows carved into the stones at the water's edge. It was a breathtaking experience. When we got back to camp and were talking with another woman about it, she said she noticed it at about the same moment in time. What it means, I have no idea, but it felt like a synchronistic experience that we had shared on some kind of sacred space.
I do think it took someone like Jung to start researching it to put validity to it. Otherwise we wouldn't have given it such credence and start researching how unlikely events happen at the same time.
Connectivity - how to explain? Well the law of 6 degrees of separation comes to mind. We can be talking about someone and find out without too much effort that this person knows someone who knows someone that we know. Or something like that. It happens with such regularity and so it is just something that we come to accept is true. An interesting thing is that computers can actually validate this connection between people. There was an experiment where letters were sent out to people and were to be passed on to others to see where they ended up or how many people were connected with the exchange. It turned out many in the experiment ended up to have a 5.6 connection that validated the 6 degrees of separation theory. I find it often happens when I am thinking about someone a lot - even if I haven't had contact with them for a while, either of us will call the other person and often hear - I have been thinking about you so much lately. Seems our connects are there even if we cannot at this point prove it - we know what we know.
Monday, June 16, 2008
week seven chaos theory
What does ordered chaos mean to me?
It feels similar to when things get out of hand in my drawer, cupboards etc. there is something that screams for order to be brought back again. Things however don't stay that way for too long and the process repeats itself again and again in life. The process of cleaning up the mess say in drawers, for me creates an even messier situation until order beings to unfold.
fractals as patterns of complex systems
Truly amazing the reproduction of self similar structures such as cloud, snowflakes, mt. ranges, river networks, down to broccoli and blood vessels to name a few. So that by taking a small piece away and examining it, one will find it replicates the larger pattern. I have seem rivers from the airplane that create such incredible pathways, but I never realized that they were replicated patterns. The Chinese in a similar way, realized we as humans were a microcosm of nature. That we had all the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water similar to that in nature. They then corresponded an element to an organ, and drew the qi and blood circulatory systems that pulled it all together.
Consciousness out of chaos
Jung realized that the psyche functions both in the time space continuum through the conscious ego, and also simultaneously in a psychic continuum that is totally unconscious. The bridging of these two very different arenas seems to bring a consciousness to the unconscious. Let me explain. How can we throw the coins for the I Ching - very randomly - chaotic if you will and write down a very orderly set of lines for a hexagram and have it speak directly to your personal situation. This is a way of letting the unconscious come through using the random throwing of coins (which is also not thinking and letting the information flow)
Cat static
Oh for sure we Minnesotans know about static electricity in our dry, heated winter homes. You don't need to do any dragging, just a few pets will bring about a zap or two and that's the end of that interaction with Lucy the kitty.
It feels similar to when things get out of hand in my drawer, cupboards etc. there is something that screams for order to be brought back again. Things however don't stay that way for too long and the process repeats itself again and again in life. The process of cleaning up the mess say in drawers, for me creates an even messier situation until order beings to unfold.
fractals as patterns of complex systems
Truly amazing the reproduction of self similar structures such as cloud, snowflakes, mt. ranges, river networks, down to broccoli and blood vessels to name a few. So that by taking a small piece away and examining it, one will find it replicates the larger pattern. I have seem rivers from the airplane that create such incredible pathways, but I never realized that they were replicated patterns. The Chinese in a similar way, realized we as humans were a microcosm of nature. That we had all the elements of wood, fire, earth, metal and water similar to that in nature. They then corresponded an element to an organ, and drew the qi and blood circulatory systems that pulled it all together.
Consciousness out of chaos
Jung realized that the psyche functions both in the time space continuum through the conscious ego, and also simultaneously in a psychic continuum that is totally unconscious. The bridging of these two very different arenas seems to bring a consciousness to the unconscious. Let me explain. How can we throw the coins for the I Ching - very randomly - chaotic if you will and write down a very orderly set of lines for a hexagram and have it speak directly to your personal situation. This is a way of letting the unconscious come through using the random throwing of coins (which is also not thinking and letting the information flow)
Cat static
Oh for sure we Minnesotans know about static electricity in our dry, heated winter homes. You don't need to do any dragging, just a few pets will bring about a zap or two and that's the end of that interaction with Lucy the kitty.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
week six vibrations
Are all vibrations "good"? Vibrations seem to be just that without a positive or negative intent. However the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka was the result of vibrations deep in the ocean - net effect - disastrous. When I think of reverberations, I recoil with the sounds of loud music, thunder, sounds from a tornado, guns. The vibrations that come from electrical machines that can attach to acupuncture needles can do a variety of healing vibrations from dispersing energy, tonifying energy, interruption the flow of qi on a meridian to healing burns using aluminum foil. Vibrations that match exactly to other structures or ground will cause bridges to fall or highways to collapse. So it is more the effect that the vibrations cause. The vibrations will cancel out other frequencies that don't resonant or have a damping effect where it releases energy in the form of heat.
A resonant frequency is a natural rhythm that is determined by the size of the confining space of the vibration. As the waves go back and forth on themselves it's called a resonance. The example of the swing having a certain frequency to vibrate at easily and how difficult it would be to have it swing differently made sense. Most objects that vibrate, have a few frequencies. How unfortunate for the Tacoma bridge to have a frequency that resonated with the wind. I find that to be incredible that that kind of computations drive the building of structures. It has been my experience to be with people that instantly feel easy to be around. So the resonance of places, people and things either draw us to them or repel us according to the vibes of their resonance.
The energy/qi connection then seems about how we label things, but basically it all looks like the same thing. We are have a resonance the energy moving inside us and we can improve it by becoming more aware of ourselves and our needs. If there is an energy that exists down to the individual atoms then what we have is an orchestra of harmonies that we are each playing out. We can certainly affect each other by how we speak and act with each other - thereby either harmonizing or inflicting chaos, or harm by our actions. This certainly seems like energy tranfer or sharing the qi pot to me.
A resonant frequency is a natural rhythm that is determined by the size of the confining space of the vibration. As the waves go back and forth on themselves it's called a resonance. The example of the swing having a certain frequency to vibrate at easily and how difficult it would be to have it swing differently made sense. Most objects that vibrate, have a few frequencies. How unfortunate for the Tacoma bridge to have a frequency that resonated with the wind. I find that to be incredible that that kind of computations drive the building of structures. It has been my experience to be with people that instantly feel easy to be around. So the resonance of places, people and things either draw us to them or repel us according to the vibes of their resonance.
The energy/qi connection then seems about how we label things, but basically it all looks like the same thing. We are have a resonance the energy moving inside us and we can improve it by becoming more aware of ourselves and our needs. If there is an energy that exists down to the individual atoms then what we have is an orchestra of harmonies that we are each playing out. We can certainly affect each other by how we speak and act with each other - thereby either harmonizing or inflicting chaos, or harm by our actions. This certainly seems like energy tranfer or sharing the qi pot to me.
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