Today the mythos is molecules. Today we are talking about satyrs, but actually the atomic model is relevant in a way here. As we discover more and more, the millennia old myth of atoms is being called into question. With the discoveries of the large hadron collider, the model they were relying on to understand quantum theory is being called into question.

Democritus? The concept of atoms does indeed go back to the Greeks, just as alchemy/chemistry goes back to the Egyptians. Al-khemy, the science of the land of khem (Egypt).

If quantum physics is NOT a mythology, then what is it? Quantum physics is indeed a mythology, and is beginning to look more and more mythological in the modern sense, as is standard model physics as a whole.

Alchemy, algebra – Islamic.

That discovery of the higgs boson was indeed very important, but something they are not talking about is the higgs boson is only quasi stable, which means that the apparent order our understanding of the world depends on is unexplained by that one particle that was supposed to explain it all. As far as they can tell, our whole universe should go splort, and yet it doesn’t. So it’s very possible that the standard model, as much as it’s been useful in predicting things, is never the less ultimately wrong.

Higgs: that mass-gathering boson, but will happily go with the myth.

Most likely limited, like all our discoveries.

Everything short-term.

Isn’t this the purpose of all mythology, to explain things to ourselves in as useful a way as we can manage?

All “knowledge” which is coooooool with moi, actually.

Well there is something that is gaining more concrete evidence to back it up. It is something my own intuition has been supporting since I was a young man. Have you heard about the cherry tree incident in the international space station?

If everything about an organism is dictated by it’s genetics, or even its epigenetic profile coupled with its genome, then the cherry trees sprouted in the space station should have taken ten years to blossom. In the space station they actually blossomed in five. How this related to my earlier reference, is there are two theories that have not yet seen broad acceptance, one being that life depends on gravity for its structure and general behaviour, the other theory is that the force of gravity lacks the strength it theoretically should have compared to to other physical forces.

“Blossomed in five”? Yes, they bloomed in five years, instead of the decade it should have taken.

Do they know why? No, they have no idea why. It is a big mystery in many disciplines, but the theory goes that gravity seems weaker than it should be in our universe, because the force actually tunnels between dimensions, even perhaps between alternate universes. Perhaps exerting the same sort of influence there that it does here for us, making the concept of the parallel universe closer to a literal truth. What do you think?

I don’t buy this crap that gravity is ‘weak”… it is just spread out over light-years of distance. No other force has a range of effect that broad.

Oh dear — enter: Dark Matter and Dark Energy?

I think, “WOW!” or rather I FEEL that.

The other forces are just more condensed…that’s why they seem ‘stronger’.

Indeed, those two forces may form what they now think may be a space/time fluid rather than the static that is still the popular theory.

I ponder “space-time fluid” and remember plasmas.

I think I should have studied physics instead of art. There are those who study both physics and art, and in the past all studies would have been arts and philosophies. We even still call the highest degree we award a doctorate of philosophy, as we still should as much as most seem to be deluding themselves otherwise.

Well at least I studied art and philosophy. Ah, then you hit two very important points.

Your thoughts are welcome. Be well friends.

Travis Saunders
Dragon Intuitive
~science,mysticism,spirituality~