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The Jewelly Nature of All Things [Mood] - FadedNoel - 03-11-2014
If one is going to hack the universe, perhaps it would be best to start with the stuff that makes up the vast majority of it.
It would, perhaps, have been best. But Grace is not the best, she is just Grace. She learns where she can from whom she can, and targets that activity where she very well wants to at the time. Scattershot.
Lately, she tried to learn from Kalen, and that went about as well as one might expect, considering that his understanding of electricity can be expressed as a sigil, preferably drawn in gold. Grace, in her scientific mien, asked him so many seemingly random questions about that one -- trying to nail down a theory for how it works. Is the gold important? Is the sigil like a circuit, through which electrons flow? How would a fluid flow through a three-dimensional representation of one of those sigils? Two-dimensional? Four?
Let it not be said that Grace isn't creative when it comes to these kinds of questions, these kinds of quests. But Enochian sigils? Probably not workable within her own understanding, sadly.
For that, she turned to the library, such as it is. Not full of too many scientific works, but it does serve its purpose.
What makes up the physical world? Forces and matter. There are those materialist fools who believe that forces and matter are all that exist, and other manifestations (thought and dream, intelligence and the spark of life) are emergent phenomena resulting from the random interactions between forces and matter. But if that is the case, where did the randomness come from? In a perfect universe, dominated only by mindless forces and inert matter, two perfect halves of a whole would have annihilated each other perfectly, and a grand nothing would have been born.
Thank goodness for imperfection.
Thank goodness for the slightest bit of the lack of a perfect mirror image (for isn't that what forces and matter are?)
When you get right down to it, forces and matter are really made of the same things -- particles, waves, wave-particles. Sera says she doesn't want to know anything of the science, but if she only knew exactly the ways in which many of the very building-blocks of her and everyone else are liminal, in-between, never-to-be-separate and so far apart -- wholly there and not there at the same time -- she might find those equations just as beautiful as Grace does. There is uncertainty in the deepness of wheres and whens and how fasts. When you look far enough, small enough at the bits that make us, it all goes to fuzzy logic. Much as if the universe is saying that there is no such thing as time and space, really.
Speaking of emergent concepts -- things we made up in our big fancy brains. Space and time, eh? Fantastic trick that.
And speaking of beautiful equations -- the math of creation -- if one does decide to do away with quaint notions of spacetime, the equations for the stuff that make up the physical world look gem-like in higher dimensions, faceted and ever-shifting to a poor third-dimensional being with limited ability to see the timelessness and spacelessness of all. Of course, Grace is not quite so limited. She can slide her mind into halves or thirds, to look with more eyes than she really has. Thinking of it like this makes the calculations faster, easier, less 'it will take 100 years' than before. In a word -- beautiful.
To see the world for what it truly is takes a great deal of unknowing. One must challenge everything, even something as common sense as cause and effect, or the very idea that one has a location. And yet, do try not to walk in front of speeding trucks that have not yet figured out that they cannot know where they are, because 'where' is a meaningless construct.
That last bit is a little important, yes?
(https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-the-heart-of-quantum-physics/)