5129 . JUST ALWAYS BECOMING

JUST ALWAYS BECOMING

(maintaining Mankind's green measure)

'How would you define nothing? A state of

infinite, unbounded homogeneity and all and

everywhere the same? A thing is defined by

its boundaries, by what differentiates it from

something else  -  so when you 'draw' something

it's enough to draw its outline. The 'edges' define 

the thing. The Universe? The questions of how

something could emerge from nothing are recast,

instead, as a search for boundaries. Find me the

existence of an observer-independent reality.

Show me that exists.

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If observers create reality, where then do

observers come from? The universe is a 

self-excited circuit  -  and the boundary of

a boundary is a zero. For something to be

real it must be invariant. Yet all things are

such  -  observer-dependent. Therefore

not real : gravity; electro-magnetism; angular 

momentum. Even, alas, reality.

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Itself. Physics then is not the machinery behind

the workings of the world; it is the machinery

behind the illusion that there is a world. I have

no cache in which to hide these things, to store

the essence, nor in which to relinquish this life.

The storing matters more than the moving.

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What moves me is all movement  -  the small

movement and the large : the turmoil and the calm;

that peace and that force of all this non-existence.

Ah! Our newest Descartes : 'I am not, therefore

I am. And all things, circular, keep moving.'
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I am picking up an old magazine as I read and write
words; an illumination of something else, the 
thought-posse reasoning of a scientist's daughter.
And, here, what comes forth, what runs high and low,
are crazy thoughts of the sort that lightning brings,
or fire-water, or a blazing flame in the mind of a man.
I stand accused of all things, and I stand, as well, acquitted.'