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"Wu Wei" the taoist idea of things in accordance with the "Way" reminds me of our childhood expression, "Whooo Weeee", pronounced about the same, I gather. "Whooo Weeee" was used to signify something notably special, like after catching a 6 pound trout, "Whooo Weee, that is sure SOME fish". I think the Chinese "Wu Wei" must be a lot like that, containing the idea of the exceptional, the notable.Aphorism 47 ISTMRN that everything IS in accord with the way of things, that’s why it's the way of things. Its, anything's, and here I say that guardedly, existence testifies to its metaphysical worth. Each atom, each motion, each thought, each person by its very existence demonstrates its accordance with the way. So (to leap ahead, enthymemically, or back up, or move radially or laterally), Buddhist and other Enlightenment ideas seem to be a state of recognition rather than a state of achievement. Whooo Weee, I wrote that whole page despite my shaky hand due to lithium carbonate I take for bi-polar. Science (Origins) Senses It is snowing ever so slightly outside and a quick look gives 1 to 10 snowflakes per cubic meter at any given time, the same order of the estimates I have seen for the density of atoms, mostly hydrogen in interstellar space (perhaps intergalactic too, but I haven't yet found estimates for that). So gentle snow provides a visual image of the density of space. Mentally or with a computer subtract the "falling" motion and I expect the remaining motions to be similar. Perhaps interstellar gases flow in swirling currents as the falling snow, but wavelength energies are probably concentrated as correlates of the distributions of distances and times between collisions, so, gosh, I don't know, mixing wavelengths of meters to millions or billions of meters? This visual picture continues, perhaps even with a "flow" from the big bang as modified thereafter by color, EM, and gravity; probably pretty turbulent, and if on large scales so then on small scales, fractal surely. If we assume the "falling" is movement described by the Hubble constant, this snow then is most likely a good metaphor for the movement of intergalactic hydrogen atoms away from the big bang. It's still snowing. Since the Hubble constant is so small relative to the local current, say in a galaxy or snow storm, almost all observable currents must be removed to observe the Hubble current, leaving us with random motion in a box (cubic meter) with porous sides. So is the motion of interstellar gas like a snowstorm or is it just random motion with zero average velocity in a box, or both? So boxes have almost imperceptibly small differences around their perimeter reflecting, at all scales, the Hubble current. |