HOLY H20: FLUID UNIVERSE

Friend Phil who often travels, found himself in Baltimore this weekend and sent a brief email saying "...Yesterday went to one of the best small museums I've ever seen. The American Visionary Museum in Baltimore. Great, great stuff...a lot of it stuff produced by the mentally ill."...

I took myself to the web site and was lost for an hour, not only is it visually captivating, but the copy is absolutely absorbing .

The current show is "Holy H20: Fluid Universe, and it's introduction is this:

In this world there is nothing softer
or thinner than water
But to compel the hard and unyielding,
It has no equal.
That the weak overcomes the strong,
That the hard gives way to the gentle -
This everyone knows,
Yet no one acts accordingly.

--Lao Tzu 6th c. B.C.

The simple truth known to the brokenhearted, the mystic, and the physicist: what we think solid is not. What most of us believe constitutes the "real" material world - the stuff we can reach out, touch, hold, buy, and see - physicists all agree is actually not solid at all. In fact, what appears "solid" or material in our world is really 99.999999999999 percent empty space made "solid" by a miniscule fraction of matter that may not even be matter but wavelets of energy. Light is a particle that when we try and measure by passing it through a narrow opening behaves just like an ocean wave passing through a narrow harbor. Once through the slender opening, light wave and water wave fan out, each forming a crescent pattern. A far more accurate characterization of our universe would be "fluid."

Even our human bodies are far more fluid than they are solid. Like earth we are mostly water--both in the range of 70%. Even human bones that feel so substantial are themselves 30% water and on close examination reveal pockmarked patterns of tiny rhythmic holes that mimic the flow of water that pits flow patterns into seabed rock. Our eyeballs, the very same by which we read these words, are washed 25 times a minute by water squirted from tiny ducts. Aquatic by nature, we begin life in a fluid mix, are nurtured in womb waters, born to suckle milk, and continue to take in fluids to survive. As the Koran sura 21.30 puts it, "We are made from water every living thing."

UNDERSEA CHARIOT Andre Blaise

These people DO know what's going on.

GO SEE!!!
And thanks, Phil.