Week 7: Chaos Theory

Ordered Chaos?

I certainly live my life in ordered chaos. I am constantly surrounded by chaos whether it is the weather or other people's moods, I can never tell what life will dish up next. But I still have a pattern of behavior and like very much to plan my life even if I can never be sure of all the inputs. I calculate to the best of my ability, and sometimes not. But it makes me feel better to plan ahead anyway.

Fractals as pattern of complex systems.

Huh? What in the what what?! It is interesting to think of all natural systems like coast lines or mountains as fractal patterns. It awes me to think that supercomputers have a difficult time with fractals and yet they exist in nature. I feel like the closer you look at the universe the more complex it becomes. That is very awe inspiring to me.

Consciousness out of chaos

I find the most difficult thing for me when trying to filter the chaos and make decisions is trusting myself. I have heard that your first response is always the best. The article we read in class confirmed what I essentially already knew about the human mind and its ability to filter information, but when you are faced with a big decision, it makes it even harder to let go of your conscious mind and allow your unconscious mind to make the right decision for you. My conscious mind has a tendency to fight back and try to assert its dominance.

Cool experiment: sticky tape

This experiment was easy and fun. I found it interesting that I never noticed tape's charge and tendency to attract or repel even though I have used tape many times in my life. It was interesting to see how easily something can pick up a charge, in this case just by being pulled out of the dispenser. It was like the tape did Qi gong and had built up its qi.

Week 6: Vibrations

Are all vibrations "good"?

I don't know that they are necessarily good or bad, they are just vibrations. However, as humans, we can definitely utilize vibrations in a good or bad way. In terms of natural disasters, that seems to me like just an unfortunate meeting of vibrations that turn out bad for humans, but the vibrations themselves were still not good or bad.

Resonance in my world

I think my perspective on this is shifting. I have used the phrase "that resonates with me" before, but I suppose I never really thought about the connection to vibration. I certainly have found myself in situations where a person or idea just feels comfortable to me. I think that could have something to do with their vibration and how that vibration resonates in me or through me or something.

Connection of Energy and Qi

I usually think of energy and qi as one in the same. Like 2 different words for the same thing.

Week 5: Sacred Geometry

My Asymmetrical world

I feel like symmetry is very subjective and depends a lot on your perspective. Like a person that seems very symmetrical on one level (far away on the exterior) is Asymmetrical if you look closer to details or the interior. Yet on a cellular level, a lot of times their cells are roughly symmetrical. Or their molecules. Perhaps a flower looks very symmetrical to us, and yet if flowers could see each other they would recognize each individual flower because of their asymmetry. Also, symmetry could be thought of as balance, so maybe the two side of our internal organs are not visually symmetrical but they balance each other as a whole so that we can function as a human body and maybe that makes them symmetrical.

Over all, in my perspective, the world is asymmetrical because rough symmetry is still asymmetry to me. But that's just me.

"CP violation"

I think CP violation just reminds us that things outside of our general understanding of the universe and physics are possible. Larry used an example of if one in a billion times when you moved in a mirror, the reflection did not follow. That would freak me out and definitely make me wonder what else is possible. I think it is the possibility that we have everything wrong that freaks people out because if we have one thing behaving abnormally, whats to stop anything else from doing the same.

Sacred Geometry and Physics

I think the two are definitely connected somehow. When the smallest things on earth (the spiral of a snails shell) and a giant thing in the universe (the spiral of a galaxy) seem to follow the same pattern found in sacred geometry, it seems unlikely, even to a rigid left brained perspective, that these things are not somehow connected. How they are connected? That I don't know...

Week 4: Energy, Matter and Force

E=mc2

I have known of this equation for a very long time, but had never really given it much thought until recently. In my Tai Ji class a few weeks ago, my teacher was talking about how everything is made out of energy and then he wrote this equation on the board and I felt like I had an "a-ha" moment. Energy IS mass and vice versa. We and everything around us is made of energy, literally. And whats more, we are made of the SAME energy. I feel like I have always known it, and never realized it at the same time. But now I feel like when talking to other people I can point to this equation and it will just make sense.

Four "forces"

I am not sure how I would compare the four forces, except to say that they are all just different forms of the same force. We just like to categorize them because its what we do to try to make sense out of things.

Function of Gravity

To bring things together (again). Maybe it is the remembering that we are all one that manifests as a draw we feel toward each other and all things. It also allows the amazing dance of energy to exist as life in the form of holding our atmosphere so we can breathe and be warm on this beautiful planet.