Below is an example of a Google Wave with one of our maps embedded.
Freddie Mercury seemed to have 'got it all' when he sang the words 'nothing really matters' in his epic Bohemian Rhapsody. The following pricked our ears up. Maybe 'we will rock you' a little too.
A profound lecture discussing the connection between quantam physics and spirituality moved our MD to share this in cyberspace - Which, after all, is directly related to the subject matter of the talk - everything which is something, is actually made up of a whole lot of bits of nothing - And the only reason it exists as something is due to the perpetual infusion of energy by those that continually re-create it.
Have we lost you yet?
In the 1920's and 30's science discovered the existence of matter beyond the the cell and atom - Sub-atomic matter.
Until that time the world was known to exist of a very concrete existence of solid matter - wood, bits of wood, wood cells etc.
Having developed the technology to dig deeper into the structure of 'life, the universe and everything' the discovery of the sub-atomic world blew the lid of what was generally know to be fact - that things were actually made up of stuff.
Not so, it seems. Science began to tell us that 'stuff', (technically known as 'stuff'), was actually made up of tiny, mini and minute little bits of this sub-atomic matter that they called quarks and other made up words.
Now these quarks and seemingly non-existent particles have no mass, nor do they take up any space. What the? So you're telling us that everything we see, touch, feel and know to exist physically (and we know this as we have the scars from skateboard mishaps to prove it), actually don't exist at all. Yet they are the bits (well they are the bits we've found untill we can find even smaller bits of nothing that don't exist either) that make up the entire universe.
This is where it got really interesting. These 'non-things' (from here known technically as 'nothing') aparently behave quite perculiarly - They seem to act un-intuitively, display properties or actions that are out of normal order, are unpredictable and even behave differently when observed - though we can't work out how they knew what nothing was doing when it wasn't being watched - (Sound like anyone you know?)
So, all matter is actually made up of lots of little bits of nothing.
Then the host told us that aeroplanes don't fly. Hmmm. Thank G-d he explained. The plane doesn't fly at all - something (which apparently is made up of nothing also) flies it - Fuel, energy, thrust, natural physics and aerodynamics (not to mention the pilot - who also by definition of this articel does not exist) fly it. Take away all that and it will stop flying. On it's own it does not fly - it's just a plane (if not nothing). Take away the infusion of energy and it stops.
So how is all this relevant. Well maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
Imagination was an analogy the lecturer drew to explain a little deeper. In our minds we can create images, people, conversations, things and events just by thinking of them. These 'dreams' so to speak are for the best part real - We may find ourself even behaving quite out of place as a result of really experiencing and indulging in the atmosphere of our imagined reality per se.
Being draw out of this imagine-space, or clupped on the back of our head possibly, we may be instantaneously focusued and present to the actual reality. Where did that Island go? That conversation? That whole vivid and seemingly real time and space go? It's gone, never to return. We simply stopped infusing it with creative energy. We did nothing and it stopped existing.
Ah. So by doing nothing, something, which is actually nothing simply ceased to exist. We were existing it by perpetually infusing it with energy (which is also actually nothing by the way).
How does this all relate to us? Does it really matter?
More on that later...
A profound lecture discussing the connection between quantam physics and spirituality moved our MD to share this in cyberspace - Which, after all, is directly related to the subject matter of the talk - everything which is something, is actually made up of a whole lot of bits of nothing - And the only reason it exists as something is due to the perpetual infusion of energy by those that continually re-create it.
Have we lost you yet?
In the 1920's and 30's science discovered the existence of matter beyond the the cell and atom - Sub-atomic matter.
Until that time the world was known to exist of a very concrete existence of solid matter - wood, bits of wood, wood cells etc.
Having developed the technology to dig deeper into the structure of 'life, the universe and everything' the discovery of the sub-atomic world blew the lid of what was generally know to be fact - that things were actually made up of stuff.
Not so, it seems. Science began to tell us that 'stuff', (technically known as 'stuff'), was actually made up of tiny, mini and minute little bits of this sub-atomic matter that they called quarks and other made up words.
Now these quarks and seemingly non-existent particles have no mass, nor do they take up any space. What the? So you're telling us that everything we see, touch, feel and know to exist physically (and we know this as we have the scars from skateboard mishaps to prove it), actually don't exist at all. Yet they are the bits (well they are the bits we've found untill we can find even smaller bits of nothing that don't exist either) that make up the entire universe.
This is where it got really interesting. These 'non-things' (from here known technically as 'nothing') aparently behave quite perculiarly - They seem to act un-intuitively, display properties or actions that are out of normal order, are unpredictable and even behave differently when observed - though we can't work out how they knew what nothing was doing when it wasn't being watched - (Sound like anyone you know?)
So, all matter is actually made up of lots of little bits of nothing.
Then the host told us that aeroplanes don't fly. Hmmm. Thank G-d he explained. The plane doesn't fly at all - something (which apparently is made up of nothing also) flies it - Fuel, energy, thrust, natural physics and aerodynamics (not to mention the pilot - who also by definition of this articel does not exist) fly it. Take away all that and it will stop flying. On it's own it does not fly - it's just a plane (if not nothing). Take away the infusion of energy and it stops.
So how is all this relevant. Well maybe it is and maybe it isn't.
Imagination was an analogy the lecturer drew to explain a little deeper. In our minds we can create images, people, conversations, things and events just by thinking of them. These 'dreams' so to speak are for the best part real - We may find ourself even behaving quite out of place as a result of really experiencing and indulging in the atmosphere of our imagined reality per se.
Being draw out of this imagine-space, or clupped on the back of our head possibly, we may be instantaneously focusued and present to the actual reality. Where did that Island go? That conversation? That whole vivid and seemingly real time and space go? It's gone, never to return. We simply stopped infusing it with creative energy. We did nothing and it stopped existing.
Ah. So by doing nothing, something, which is actually nothing simply ceased to exist. We were existing it by perpetually infusing it with energy (which is also actually nothing by the way).
How does this all relate to us? Does it really matter?
More on that later...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
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