Thyme to go, wherever the light leads. So much is predicated on things happening external to the individual. To be in the space/time of the future while waiting for the rest of the folks to catch the drift has been excruciating. So, duty calls and the cosmic surfboard is ready - will keep the blog blogging as much as possible.
To read the energy meter, watch a cat. Cats have a sense for when to be somewhere. No matter when I cook, if i have meat in the meal, the calico is there underfoot.
She came with the house rental. Sweet older kitty that has a zen to her - quietly moves about and is there, right when she needs to be. All calico's are female - a quirk of the genetics. It also appears that calico's understand human - and are masters of purr therapy. The prior calico in my life was also a thespian - she play-acted an entire hunting story when a cougar thinned our group from three cats to two.
Continuing with our theme of chemico-sociology - applying the lessons of chemistry to the social challenges of today. The game is moving toward a high energy frenzy and we have already talked about transition states and free radicals. Chemistry is a theory where reactants combine to make products. If there is not enough energy around, the reactants can set together without reacting: all sorts of specific conditions are necessary to make molecules reactive.
Energy can be fed into a system all at once or very slowly. Some people look at the big pot and gradually ramp up the heat, raising temperatures gradually such that the frogs don't jump right out of the pot. Others start incendiary timbers burning, then lob Molotov cocktails to gather attention. If you want to flow with the changes and not catch the heat, you have to be very observant and avoid trouble.
Sometimes trouble comes calling. The zen of detachment for an individual water molecule is being alone or being surrounded by other water molecules in the ground state sea of normal water. Molecules have charges based on the distribution of electrons and proton within the molecule. Water has two hydrogen and one oxygen framed in a bent lattice with a sharing mechanism called hydrogen bonding. Like attracts like and love is shared in a way that everybody in the drop shares intimate contact with the whole and yet remains self too. All water is attracted to charge.
The last discussion left off with a concept of free radicals that needs to be fleshed out in further depth. The concept of breaking apart a pair of electrons to leave them both loose as a singular entity requires lots of energy. Energy is stored in chemical bonds and when bonds are broken, the loose energy goes into whatever happens to be in the way to absorb it. We work with free radical generators like hydrogen peroxide and ozone regularly - when the population of radicals is large enough where they are constantly meeting each other, then they cancel themselves out by pairing.
The mechanism by which plastics are formed is called a free radical polymerization. A single entity called a monomer is the basic unit of a plastic. In polyethylene, ethylene is the monomer; in polyurethane, urethane is the monomer. A free radical initiator is added as a catalyst in small amount and each place where a reaction is started. The monomer reacts with the initiator and becomes a radical. It finds a neighbor molecule and adds it to create a dimer radical. This finds a either a new monomer, another dimer or an initiator, but based on who is around, the next monomer wins for quite a while. It depends totally on proximity of who is hanging around the site where the action is happening. Can you say Ferguson?
As the system continues to react, eventually there are more free radical chains than monomers and dimers and larger chains make larger chains and soon, every monomer is part of the great linked polymer. That is how plastic world works on a molecular formative basis. The analogy to social transformation can be used to indicate progress, or digress, which may be necessary first.
Chemistry and sociology run in parallel to each other as hard and soft science. This implies that they share a fractal dimension where the actions of the individuals within groups act similar on each scale. The basis for the water molecule and the basis for the individual human been are similar and if we invoke biomimicry, we find that nature (Gaia) already knows this.
In chemistry, it requires energy to get to the point where the transition state occurs. When the transition state happens, at the maximum energy required, some bonds break and new bonds forms, and then energy is released and the ride is all downhill from there. Two choices - fall to the bottom hard, or ride the wave on your cosmic surfboard. Guess which I choose?
So, an individual water molecule, like an individual person or an individual electron, has an identity that allows it to keep a separate memory of itself that is different from the group memory of the whole. What happens on its journeys is that it finds a comfortable place to remain and stays there until the transition state forces a change to occur. Gaia is in full transition state and the new moon energies last night were the peak energy, enough to dislodge some tether that weren't 'supposed to be' broken and creating an interesting ride forward.
Just read a very interesting blog post from an old friend Sol Luckman. I found the idea of MeshNet particularly interesting. Enjoy everything that happens as a once in a lifetime experience and be awed by the inspiration of love. This seems to confirm our feelings and our thoughts. Love you. lemme
Yin is not always equal to yang - the ebb returns to the flow in form where one can dominate the other, but never can eliminate the other without dissolving itself. Connections between people are individual - each one is an important connection toward building to the power of two. It takes many twos to get to three or four, but we can never get there without mastery of number one - the self. And being number one is the role of looking out for life in its entirety. We are a triad, of yin and yang and the in between - the lines are indeed part of the whole - embrace division and diversity as differences in perspective.
