Sunday, June 1, 2008

Week Five: Symmetry and Sacred Geometry

My (a)symmetrical world...

At our core the universe is symmetrical - in pure truth and beauty. In the outer realm of "reality" things are choatic. Calm down to find the symmetry again, get caught up in the craziness and the patterns are lost. I think perhaps this is the reason that Quantum mechanics and classical mechanics do not follow by the same rules. They tell two different stories. One speaks to the "unbroken wholeness" the other to the shattered mirror. A world view coming from the inside will see pattern, meaning, balance; a world view taken from the outside will see chaos, meaninglessness, imbalance. Meditating on the balance, on the symmetry is said to work to restore the calm, connected core. What you look for, you will find.

I offer no explanation, but it doesn't take their beauty away... Crop circles....




Creating symmetry...




Bipolar art...





Just what does this CP violation really mean?

"CP violation has so far been observed in one system only, namely in the decays of neutral kaons..." I think of it as the coyote, the trickster, in the story. This is a paragraph from Wikipedia on the subject, which really is fascinating...what went wrong? It seems we shouldn't really be here, but just existing as pure light:

The Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and anti-matter if CP-symmetry was preserved; as such, there should have been total cancellation of both. In other words, protons should have cancelled with anti-protons, electrons with positrons, neutrons with anti-neutrons, and so on for all elementary particles. This would have resulted in a sea of photons in the universe with no matter. Since this is quite evidently not the case, after the Big Bang, physical laws must have acted differently for matter and antimatter, i.e. violating CP symmetry.

...."a sea of photons in the universe with no matter...." The universe should be pure energy!

CP violation means that the mystery continues. Here is a really good link I found trying to communicate the concept in friendlier terms: http://www.phy.bris.ac.uk/groups/particle/PUS/A-level/CP_violation.htm

Are there connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics?

Yes. Sacred Geometry speaks to the unity of the universe. It is like the rosetta stone, sort of. Metaphysical messages plunked down by sages who, through deep inner practice, I suspect, discovered the unified theory of everything. Hence, we see the pyramids, mandalas, crop circles, the "flower of life" pattern, etc. This is precisely what physicists are searching for - an equation as simple as E=mc2 that will tie the universe together in one pretty picture. Look at a picture of DNA...it is quite symmetrical and unified.



Dr. Masaru Emoto's work--made famous in that movie What the Bleep Do We Know-- on the structure of water crystals and human thought/intention ties all of this together for me. The water crystals resulting from thoughts of love are very symmetrical, balanced, pleasing. Those resulting from thoughts of hate directed toward them are chaotic, ugly, disorganized. Do we indeed project what we want to see in this world? This (a)symmetrical world... See www.hado.net.

2 comments:

lynxylulu said...

i really loved your posting on (a)symmetry. it makes so much sense that perspective could play such a large role in answering this question. and i agree with the idea of unbroken wholeness as well. also, thanks for posting those beautiful images- i loved seeing the intracacies of the crop circles (which i'd always heard about, but never really seen in such a detailed way), as well as the tibetan monks creating sacred mandalas. the bipolar art was quite chaotic and a very good example of the profound difference between symmetrical and asymmetrical. thanks!

Sherry said...

wow those are some beautiful images and the video is amazing. i'd like to see that done in person...or experience it i should say.

truly beautiful. thanks.