Physics wk7 - Vibrations

 Are all vibrations “good”? 
The simplest answer to this question, dodges the intent of the question.  I think that it would be impossible for all vibrations to be good, because good cannot exist without it's opposite.  I believe all vibrations could be neutral.  

 Resonance in my world 
I commute using the BART train, and I will use my experience riding the BART to speak to resonance in my world.  As I occupy my seat on the train, I experience the sounds that the train makes though it's journey.  My place as an observer does not change but the sounds that I hear very quite dramatically.  If the train is going through a tunnel the wheels get very very loud and screechy.  They are not this loud no screechy when the train is moving through a portion of the trackway where it is wide and spacious.  I think that the resonance created inside the tube of the tunnel causes an amplification of the sound waves of the train in such a way that the volume is amplified as well as the frequency is higher and thereby the pitch of the train wheels gets screechier.  

 Connections I can make between Energy and Qi?
I want to preference this with saying that I do not have a good grasp on Qi.  The connections I can make at this point is that both are invisible yet provide the power for observable outcomes.  Qi can be used to describe many different things just as energy can also describe many types of energy.  There is Kinetic Energy, Atomic Energy, Matter is a ton of energy condensed.  So too there is gathering qi, upright qi, defensive qi, the qi of an organ, the qi that circulates around the body as well.  I am learning that it is very important to be clear about what type of Qi one is referring to.  I think the same thing can be said of Energy.

 I found a physics experiment out in the wild.  After scrolling through multiple pages of really cool, really "easy," physics experiments I realize that they are only easy if you have all the necessary parts to build the experiment.  I found that I lacked the resources to build out an experiment at home.

And then my sister came into town from out of state, and we met up for dinner and a drink afterwards.  LOW AND BEHOLD -  I found one of the Little Shop of Physics experiments at the bar.  It is a variation of the mirror wormhole

Using double sided mirrors to create an infinity array of the light bulbs and bricks reflected back upon each other for ever.  It creates the illusion of there being a hole into the center of the earth.  *WOAH*

The physics comes with how the double sided mirrors let some but not all of the light through every time a light particle hits the face of the mirror.  As LSOP explains:

"Every time the light hits a mirror, some of it is transmitted (so you see it) and some of the light is reflected back. The result is that you see multiple reflections, and the string of lights looks like it repeats forever."

In the second photo I tried to capture the corner where you can just see the second mirror placed at the bottom of the light box.

Physics wk 6 - Chaos Theory

I think ordered chaos is depending upon ones viewpoint.  An outside observer looking at my living room could describe it as chaotic.  There are piles of books, papers, pens, shoes, acupuncture equipment, personal effects seemingly strewn about.  However I know where my Tuesday classes books are related to my Thursday class books.  And I can locate everything within  seconds.  To me, because I have created the space there is an order to it.  If, my girlfriend were to be ever so helpful and tidy up the front room these view points would become reversed.  The space could appear tidy and all items squared up and organized and yet to me it would be chaos and I would take a long time to find an item I was searching for. 

This leads me to think about the differences in the organization of public vs private spaces.  In my private space it only matters if I know how to navigate it, where in a public space the organization and navigation of the space needs to be relatively easy for the majority to understand or Inuit.  Like the duodecimal system at a library.

 Franctals are a physical representation of a system, they allow us to visualize patterns that appear in complex numerical systems.  I find the way that the smallest piece of a fractal is representational of the whole to be fascinating.  Take the cauliflower in the image.  Each tiny cone looks like the large cone that each of the smaller ones combine to make.  It pleases me that there are visual representations of fractals because I lack the mathematical knowledge to understand the complex systems that they represent.

The article that we read on the consciousness of chaos took me a while to comprehend.  I initially could not see where the chaos theory crossed paths with the state of consciousness, depression specifically in the article, that was being discussed.  But then I understood, by comparison to the images of fractals.  A depressed consciousness will have depressed behaviors that lead to the continuation of that state.  Just as every section of the fractal has the same shape as the whole and the summation of those similar parts create the whole.  We see the same concept of chaos can play itself out in very different aspects of nature.

Physics wk4 - Energy, Matter and the Four Forces

One of the most popularly known equations is E=mc^2.  The equation has become part of the Einstein brand, along with unruly hair.  The image of Intestine smoking a pipe that emits the cosmos has become imbedded in pop culture, and t-shirts available at Target.

via GIPHY

However when I pose the question to myself of how has e=mc^2 affected me, I'm initially left at a loss.  Energy is mass x a very large number.  The speed of light being that very large number, however I feel like it's easy to get caught up on the idea of light zooming around seemingly instantaneously versus how that quantity acts in this equation.  Which is to say it makes the sum of the parts a very very large amount of energy.

My assumption is that Einstein's theory of relativity relates to the coming the atomic age and the creation of the atomic bomb & nuclear power. Whether or not this assumption is true, it has colored my lens for viewing my world since childhood.

When I compare the four forces, I instinctively rate them by their relative magnitude.  With the Strong nuclear force & Electromagnetic forces massively outweighing the power of the Weak nuclear force and at the comparitivley easy to see but lacking in power the force of gravity.

Gravity is the attractive force that mass exerts over other mass.  Gravity functions to keep our bodies engaged with the ground and in such a balanced state that we can move about the surface of our planet without floating off into the atmosphere or it requiring so much energy to lift our limbs in fight of the gravitational force that we would never move at all.  Gravity has many many more functions, that a person more scientifically minded can appreciate with ease.  But for me, gravity is what is keeping me & all the objects that I interact with daily grounded.

Physics Wk3 - Synchronicity

In the years aprecieding 2012 I took on a laissez faire attitude  I took risks.  The word was that the Mayan calendar came to a close in December of 2012.  So I figured, if the world ended so be it.  I would not be held accountable for debts I had accumulated and I would have had more experiences than if I had lived my life "safely." In these years of saying yes to every opportunity that came my way, I opened myself up to observing the working of interconnectedness, manifestation, and synchronistic happenings around me.  Here is an example of such:

When it came to the evening of Dec 21st, I hardly realized that the great event was upon us all.  I was entrenched in my daily grind.  I was also homeless and staying between a number of my friends houses.  Having put all my things in storage and gotten rid of my apartment in order to afford spending a month abroad. One of my friends had recently relocated to the Bay Area from Oahu.  It so happened that a couple of women from Hawaii were visiting and all of us ended up at the same roller derby practice.  The Hawaiis were going to go out after practice and I was invited.  Typically I have no time for such social outings.  But, it was the end of the world so why not?  One of the women from the Big Island caught my fancy that evening.  I pursued getting to know her, and eventually we became partners.  On the other side of the Equator in another woman I know met her now husband on that same evening.  Both of them were travelers She from California and He from Germany and crossing paths with each other on 12/21/2012 in Peru.  I think it was both synchronistic that a number of people met their long term partners on that day, along with the fact that each of the people involved were admits travel that had closed the gap of continents in order to cross paths.

My decision to return to school has be a direct departure from the say yes to opportunity attitude that allowed me to meet my mate.  Staying close to home and working on building this new knowledge base and skill set seems to me that it has closed me off to the opportunities that international roller derby coaching & play had offered me over the last decade and that has been a difficult trade off.  But that sort of thinking in and of itself may cause me to miss out on seeing the synchronistic events unfold around me here and now.