Notes and ramblings for a blog that was never written:-
The search is on.
Newton, all was light, unity of the laws for heaven AND earth.
Einstein, light constant, space and time relative.
Is such a theory always available?
Love has no why.
Theory should include ourselves, as part of whole, paradox. Auto-didact in Nausea, for me, all knowledge, yet thwarted by moral failure.
"Metaphysical baggage" (of quantum theory) Computers based on each "bit" being 1 or 0. Quantum Computer could be both! Thus faster. Western either/or, Eastern both/and.
Applied physics, quantum has become technology - computers etc. Therefore "true"? Quantum describes the "real" world? But old cosmology (wrong) guided ships on the ocean.
Theory of Everything will be the attempt to unify quantum mechanics with general relativity - latest attempt is in "string theory".
"From all things the one, and from the one all things"(Heraclitus)
It is said that the strings are constantly vibrating. Was once told that when anyone speaks of vibrations we are off to la la land.
I don't really understand how a theory expressed as a mathematical equation can help me navigate my way through the world - except it helps build a better Satnav.
Description of theories as "mathmatically beautiful", Copernicus, Kepler, Einstein - the "saint" as humanly beautiful. Of course, circular orbits were "beautiful" but false.
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Reductionism v Holism. Holism, we are part of whole, thus paradox.
John Haines, "Little Cosmic Dust":-
Out of the debris of dying stars,
this rain of particles
that waters the waste with brightness...
The sea-wave of atoms hurrying home,
collapse of the giant,
unstable guest who cannot stay....
The sun's heart reddens and expands,
his mighty aspiration is lasting,
as the shell of his substanace
one day will be white with frost.
In the radiant field of Orion
great hordes of stars are forming,
just as we see every nig
fiery and faithful to the end.
Out of the cold and fleeing dust
that is never and always,
the silence and waste to come....
This arm, this hand,
my voice, your face, this love.
Related Quote:-
Out of the debris of dying stars,
this rain of particles
that waters the waste with brightness...
The sea-wave of atoms hurrying home,
collapse of the giant,
unstable guest who cannot stay....
The sun's heart reddens and expands,
his mighty aspiration is lasting,
as the shell of his substanace
one day will be white with frost.
In the radiant field of Orion
great hordes of stars are forming,
just as we see every nig
fiery and faithful to the end.
Out of the cold and fleeing dust
that is never and always,
the silence and waste to come....
This arm, this hand,
my voice, your face, this love.
"Bloom (Leopold Bloom of Ulysses) is no perfect hero, but perfection is overrated. Give me a honest human being embracing their mundane humanity any day over a person striving after perfection".
"Joyce does not present us with the illusion of a perfect life in this book, a life without pain and sorrow, but in all his honesty Joyce shows us that life as it is and not as we think it should be is worth saying Yes to. The sorrows and difficulties faced in Ulysses are included in Joyce’s affirmation of life, because what good would such an affirmation be if it did not include all of life?"
"Joyce offers a new litmus test for what we call the hero, not gigantic feats of strength, but small and simple feats of kindness."
And a final quote from Joseph Campbell, from his book on Joyce, "Mythic Worlds, Modern Words":-
"It’s my feeling that our imagery has been deprived of its affect by our strongly rational tendency in the interpretation of images and by our religious traditions concretizing symbols, so that they refer, not past themselves to symbolic themes, but to historical events—when, for example, we interpret the resurrection of Christ as having been an historical event instead of seeing the resurrection as a psychologically crucial moment of crisis, this deprives the imagery of its affect".
Finally: -
"An epiphany was not a miraculous dispensation from above but, as Joyce defined it, an insight into 'the soul of the commonest object' "
(Kevin Birmingham, from "The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle For James Joyce's Ulysses.")
"Joyce does not present us with the illusion of a perfect life in this book, a life without pain and sorrow, but in all his honesty Joyce shows us that life as it is and not as we think it should be is worth saying Yes to. The sorrows and difficulties faced in Ulysses are included in Joyce’s affirmation of life, because what good would such an affirmation be if it did not include all of life?"
"Joyce offers a new litmus test for what we call the hero, not gigantic feats of strength, but small and simple feats of kindness."
And a final quote from Joseph Campbell, from his book on Joyce, "Mythic Worlds, Modern Words":-
"It’s my feeling that our imagery has been deprived of its affect by our strongly rational tendency in the interpretation of images and by our religious traditions concretizing symbols, so that they refer, not past themselves to symbolic themes, but to historical events—when, for example, we interpret the resurrection of Christ as having been an historical event instead of seeing the resurrection as a psychologically crucial moment of crisis, this deprives the imagery of its affect".
Finally: -
"An epiphany was not a miraculous dispensation from above but, as Joyce defined it, an insight into 'the soul of the commonest object' "
(Kevin Birmingham, from "The Most Dangerous Book: The Battle For James Joyce's Ulysses.")
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