Thinking about Dark Matter and the trail which seems at present to have gone cold, my suspicion is that all the foraging in the dark for particle candidates has come up against a brick wall. The Amplituhedron came along and lit up the scene almost complacently, arriving as it did out of somebody's head rather than out of a billion dollar experiment. Just as I'd written that, questions were asked on Twitter as to whether the human mind was capable of computing universal questions and why it was that we were still referring to atoms and molecules as ‘particles'. Yes, we've a way to go. Opening doors to further flights of imagination rather than clipping wings with mathematical rhetoric could lead to heights we haven't dreamed of yet.
Time is something we take totally for granted. We bind our lives round packages of time in conformity to the clock and think nothing of what we are actually doing in it. In time, yes. That's exactly what I mean. Like the beating of drums and the songs of strings and the beauty that surrounds an orchestra when it is played well.
The Universe takes short cuts all the time, which is why of course we are driven to seek them. Most commodities don't come out of the Dark, so we don't go looking for them there. We look instead at the bright lights of entertainment and wonder why we don't see things as they really are. Shuttered down by advertising - commercial, scientific and spiritual - from the possibility of Dark being any good at all goes against the grain of Establishment. So what happens when suddenly we're confronted with a home comprising over 70% of it? Hell, you can imagine how hard it is to find your way out.
The Universe takes short cuts all the time, which is why of course we are driven to seek them. Most commodities don't come out of the Dark, so we don't go looking for them there. We look instead at the bright lights of entertainment and wonder why we don't see things as they really are. Shuttered down by advertising - commercial, scientific and spiritual - from the possibility of Dark being any good at all goes against the grain of Establishment. So what happens when suddenly we're confronted with a home comprising over 70% of it? Hell, you can imagine how hard it is to find your way out.
Quantum mechanics told us about waves and particles and the fact that everything is both at the same time. Then the mechanics went on to discover through Strings that everything oscillates and vibrates all at the same time. Nature, meanwhile, had given us neutrinos and quarks to tell us that everything that is and moves is oscillating and vibrating at the same time. Then suddenly, SUSY strutted in, and Nature said, "No, it's not time," and left. Carlo Rubbia ruffled his feathers, annoyed yet again.
Now it seems we have Time on our side, if we think about it. Imagine you're a wave form - come on, it's not that difficult, it's just that you're stuck in a particle body. Cool. So now all you have to do is know where you are on your wave form. If you're down, or up, it doesn't matter, because the peaks and troughs of life will just keep going while that heart beats and that brain is there to feed it information. Keep oscillating, wh - that's your right, your god-given privilege, the thing we can all do that we share with every thing else in the Universe. We are, It Is.
Being stressed and depressed, as many people believe they are, is fighting against the wave form. Forced by a particle body to absorb external information, we've been cauterized from our senses - those senses that the quantum world gives us. You tend to call them flavours and colours but what the hell, it all means the same thing. We're just dogs, sniffing for something.
Waves of Time (which as I wrote in a Blog is perfectly allowed to be flat) push us up and down constantly, but gravity is a strong pull, and we live in a negative Universe. Electrons are our only physical contact with everything around us and they're damn negative, so when we get into a negative state it's like being glued to the floor, which is literally what's happening. We know about Gluons. That's why we named them. And so on, through the whole exhibit. Yep, bring out the Winos. They'll tell us some interesting stories. (Ask him about tornadoes. I missed that one by nanoseconds.)
Is it any surprise, therefore, that we are groping with illusions which need some kind of determination, some kind of link between the physical and the metaphysical which every academic institution on the land is built to look for? Not really. We've got all the tools, and the people from all walks of life roaming around looking for answers. They're here. Deep is where the Dark is. Somewhere else, I wrote that, too. Tick....tick.....tick......tick
Is it any surprise, therefore, that we are groping with illusions which need some kind of determination, some kind of link between the physical and the metaphysical which every academic institution on the land is built to look for? Not really. We've got all the tools, and the people from all walks of life roaming around looking for answers. They're here. Deep is where the Dark is. Somewhere else, I wrote that, too. Tick....tick.....tick......tick
Alternatively, you could listen to a beach.
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