March 22, 2005

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  :-p do you remember HS chemistry class? of course it MUST have been updated since back in the day, but... remember the model of the atom, with protons and neutrons forming the nucleus, and the electrons zooming in orbit around in the 'electron shell'?  remember how we learned that there was space even btwn these sub-atomic particles?  well, when i learned that i realized that this was how superman (from the 40's/50's tv show) could, in theory, pass thru solid walls - because of the space that existed between the molecules, atoms, and sub-atomic particles both in superman's body and in the 'solid' object thru which he passed...  well, we also learned how every atom vibrated, and that the frequency of the vibration was directly proportional to the increase (decrease) in temperature... for a long time i thought about these things, especially about the vibrational energy of the universe... well, along came String Theory > which postulates that the entire universe is made up of vibrating strings... which made me thing of sonic vibrations, and pitch... which caused me to flash on that character from walt disney's 40's movie "Fantasia", where sonic vibration was actually a character... and so now i think of the entire universe as comprised of music -- singing to me/us.... almost all sound has pitch for me, in particular things with regular vibrational frequencies, like motors (which made car repair fairly easy, btw...) ... which brings me to our old friend, Eckhart: "the Unmanifested [Being] is not separate from the manifested.  It pervades this world... If you know where to look, you'll find it everywhere... Look for it in the silence, out of which the sounds come, and into which they return.  Pay more attention to the silence than to the sounds.  Paying attention to outer silence creates inner silence... Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence.  Silence enables the sound to be.  It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word..." (p. 135-136) "Just as no sound can exist without silence, nothing can exist without no-thing, without the empty space that enables it to be..." [peut-être le néant d'Ellul?] "... even inside every physical body there is far more 'nothing' than 'something'.  Even seemingly solid matter, including your physical body, is nearly 100% empty space, so vast are the distances between the atoms compared to their size. What is more, even inside every atom there is mostly empty space.  What is left is more like a vibrational frequency than particles of solid matter, more like a musical note..." (p 137) So, Eckhart points towards the basis for String Theory - the theory from physics that has all the universe vibrating - no, SINGING - to you...  how glorious is that?  God's ultimate love song... the love song that permeates all of us if we are open to it... and to the one i love, if u read this > and to you...

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