liquid light

“Everyone who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe - a spirit vastly superior to that of man.“ - Albert Einstein

The wikipedia entry on intelligent design states the following:

“The unequivocal consensus in the scientific community is that intelligent design is not science but pseudoscience.”

It seems as if Albert Einstein is no longer considered a part of the “scientific community”, along with the likes of David Bohm & Ervin Laszlo.

Reducing & limiting the concept of intelligent design to flat-earth theologians who believe the earth was created in 6 days a few thousand years ago smells like rank disinformation.

pity this busy monster, manunkind
pity this busy monster, manunkind,

not. progress is a comfortable disease:
your victim (death and life safely beyond)

plays with the bigness of his littleness
— electrons deify one razorblade
into a mountainrange; lenses extend
unwish through curving wherewhen till unwish
returns on its unself.

a world of made
is not a world of born — pity poor flesh

and trees, poor stars and stones, but never this
fine specimen of hypermagical

ultraomnipotence. we doctors know

a hopeless case if — listen: there’s a hell
of a good universe next door; let’s go

– e. e. cummings

about 10 years ago i sat at the waterfront mug & bean cafe in cape town, reading a paper. this guy sat down next to me at the counter and we eventually got talking. by the time i left, he had turned me on to the wonderwacky world of quantum physics. i couldn’t wait to get to cape town library, where he said i could find a copy of Capra’s tao of physics.

V had spent the last 3 years living out of his beaten up car, between cape technicon and the oriental bazaar. although homeless, he had talked the tech library into letting him frequent it and over the following years had gorged his considerable intellect on mathematics, fuzzy logic, quantum physics, set theory, electronics etc.

although located 6000 miles north of him in 3D, we still keep in contact. while often homeless in this one, i have no doubt that in an alternate universe V received a scholarship to study at MIT and went on to become a renowned leftfield polymath.

he had a real impact on me back then, which continues.

for anyone interested in exploring the new physics, the following books offer an accessable & enjoyable starting point:

Nic Herbert - Quantum Reality
Fritjof Capra - The Tao of Physics
Dancing Wu Li Masters - Gary Zukav