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So more space is needed for evolutionary chan...2/2<br /><br />So more space is needed for evolutionary change but that will mean constants will also be needed to mediate the variables in the equations of life's multifaceted evolutions, whether these be physical, biological, social, aesthetics, perhaps economic.<br /><br />The out-flowing planets have plenty of space between themselves to share out. Yet like ideas such as the financial big bang, they will inevitably dim as their energy dissipates. Soon there will only be the silence of zen, the sound of tao, and perhaps the life of pi, an ever-changing constant.<br /><br />Where does all this leave us mortals? We try to hedge all our bets through a constant integration of all variables to find the eternal grail of symmetry. <br /><br />But mortal life is short and each is only allowed one throw of the dice so that we take the optimal and logical step by seeking the meekest path - we disdain the cumulative method of new ideas for the integration of all thoughts into the presumed permanence of one feeling as propulsion into the world of zen-like tao. <br /><br />Alas, to feel one must be conscious but to think one must not be unconscious so that to feel one must think which however pulls us back to the very temporal world we seek to escape from by sheer silent feeling. Unless of course it is not necessary to think in order to know but then again the moment one knows something the instantaneous feeling of that moment has changed. Like the uncertainty principle.<br /><br />Thus, we must return to the constants.<br /><br />A lot of the problems in the world since ground genesis must be due to our departure from recognizing and assimilating the constants of the world in which we were born and from which we will soon depart.<br /><br />As to what these constants are, we shall have to await the next episode to be provided by the blogger, perhaps with a helpful comment or two from that white-haired legal eagle.<br /><br />Some liquid courage may help lubricate their next journey. Make that two more, barman:<br /><br />http://is.gd/Oli7rN<br /><br />Breakfast Readings:<br /><br />http://is.gd/wc7rcY<br />http://is.gd/UMCwHo<br />http://is.gd/8O1ih5<br />http://is.gd/plKHo0wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5014075006969917149.post-82163608221142562992012-09-22T00:50:53.040+08:002012-09-22T00:50:53.040+08:00You can't get this anymore - ice shavings comp...You can't get this anymore - ice shavings compressed into a ball sweetened with rose syrup.<br /><br />What was just a cold sphere during those innocent times we later learned could be quantified. To the sensation of cold which is an electroneural impulse from the hand to the brain, we have added the theoretical notion of mass. Recently the Hadron Collider issued some hope that we finally have the first inklings of Higg's boson, the source of mass. <br /><br />We have also intuitively learned the entire mass of that icy sphere of yonder days is as if concentrated at its core's central point. This of course denotes another concept, symmetry, for at any other location inside the sphere, the symmetry would be broken.<br /><br />So what was an ice ball in the hand in our memory has now expanded to the globe on which we now stand. <br /><br />This planetary globe is one of gazillions spun out by a single massive explosion a long time back that had happened at one primeval point. <br /><br />That explosion is called the big bang whose event created the planets and stars we detect today and they are still moving outwards from ground genesis. But in time their energy will be spent out into the void and they will become cold. <br /><br />Meanwhile we learn the financial sector too had a big bang. As with the creation of the universe, it started by creating diversity which gives rise to the notion of evolution, or survival of the greediest. <br /><br />This man-made big bang too has fizzled out on our human timescale during which process many theories were overturned until we have become convinced that change is the only constant in our little human universe, an axiomatic cliche redolent of the original equation for force between masses whose balancing of variables requires the presence of a numerical constant, unchanging and essential, taoistic and zenlike, majestic and yet relegated to the background but that is again because the human mind has been focusing only on the variables in the equation as it is their constant changing around which attracts attention thereby banishing boredom, itself the bane of the global evolutionary movement. <br /><br />So starting from an ice ball, we have arrived at the bipolar yin-yang tension between constant and change.<br /><br />Monads and language games aside, does the atom of change contain a nucleus of constants?<br /><br />To answer this question, it may be fruitful to observe our pumpkin-shaped cactus. <br /><br />As it grows, out pops from its curved surface little cactuses. As they get bigger and weightier, they drop off and roll down the side to rest on their own but near their parent. While more do so according to the same success factor of birth, less will survive as the space for their growth diminishes from increasing population. <br /><br />The very factor of success then becomes the same factor of failure because of the constancy of space.<br /><br />wallahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17580252352785040456noreply@blogger.com