[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Sermon
- From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 13:04:21 -0500
A post script to my post: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxAZ_FLudKc&NR=1
I wish I had just a glimmer of an inkling of the what any of these mean.
Mike
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Mike Geary
<jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> ScienceDaily (Oct. 31, 2010) — Researchers at Oregon State University have
> solved a quest in fundamental material science that has eluded scientists
> since the 1960s, and could form the basis of a new approach to electronics.
>
> "This is a fundamental change in the way you could produce electronic
> products, at high speed on a huge scale at very low cost, even less than
> with conventional methods," Keszler said. "It's a basic way to eliminate the
> current speed limitations of electrons that have to move through materials."
>
> Also on the horizon are "energy harvesting" technologies such as the
> nighttime capture of re-radiated solar energy, a way to produce energy from
> the Earth as it cools during the night.
>
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029152751.htm
>
>
> IT'S A SQUIGGLY-WIGGLY WORLD
>
> "O that this too too solid flesh would thaw, melt, resolve itself into a
> dew..."
>
> Billy Boy had it right and long before we knew of the nothingness of what
> is.
>
> I read once of a physicist who wore snow shoes wherever he went fearing
> that he might otherwise sink into the earth.
> I often feel like that. Who remembers Buckaroo Bonzai and the car that
> could drive through solid rock? Hey, if a cosmic ray can do it, why not
> Buckaroo?
>
> Is existence an illusion? There's nothing there but energy, right? Slow
> it all down and you can have a 5 billion year old planet -- but not the
> same, not the same one even for an instant. It's constantly, instantly
> changing, subatomically at least, as are our own bodies, Muons and pions
> shoot out from us like fireworks, and others jump in to take their place.
>
> Sayeth Billy Boy:
> *Hamlet: To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination
> trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?**
> Horatio: 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.**Hamlet: No,
> faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and
> likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
> Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and
> why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a
> beer-barrel?*
> Billy Boy didn't know about subatomic particles, but his instincts were
> right. We are each of us wads of what once was. Some object to
> reductionism insisting that we are more than positive and negative
> electrical charges. For me, lightening proves there's a god and that he is
> the Omnipotent Squiggly Wiggly of existence.
>
> Mike Geary
> throwing off hadrons in Memphis
>
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