Le sanctuaire de pensées: December 2012

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

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December 26, 2012 at 09:29AM

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How do you quantify love? Can you weigh it, measure it, pin it down with equations? If the sum of all experiences is really just the interaction of a finite soup of chemicals copulating in nerve endings, how does this even dare articulate the infinite?

For all this we treat love as a countable infinity. We can love someone more and more; we can stop loving. But we can never guess how much all this is. Love has no units. Verily, the Psalter has it that 'if I look to the east, behold, thou art there... If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.'

Perhaps love is like the theory of the ever-expanding universe, we are caught inside of the inside of an ever-inflating sphere, ever boundless.

- S. Halford

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Newton's third law of motion is well known. Anybody who has done high school physics knows that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. You push against a wall; it pushes back against you. I think there is great poetry hidden in these truths, the many laws we've discovered that underpin the universal fabric. We search for meaning ever hungrier, perhaps even with desperation, because the symmetry in the equations belies the fact that, for all we know, there is just us on this lonely little blue marble in the inky void.

We want union with something, even if the opposite seems true. Bring two atomic nuclei together and their positive electrostatic forces will repel each other, but, with the patience and strength of the blind god of the galaxies, there comes a point where a greater entity takes over and welds them together.

Physicists call it simply the Strong Nuclear Force;

I've called this magic glue God.

- S.Halford