Oct 7

(A)Symmetry

When I look through books about sacred geometry there are always pictures of natural objects like shells and leaves. The objects themselves are never completely symmetrical, from a geometric viewpoint, like the human tracings that surround them. They seem to take these images and impose a degree of perfection to the objects. Symmetry has another meaning and that is balance. Nature is balanced and thus is symmetrical. Symmetry is also equated with beauty and nature is indeed beautiful. There is form and there is energy as well. Forms in nature, whether they be human or otherwise, don't seem to be perfectly symmetrical - as in geometry. Energy on the other hand may be. But energy fluctuates and when there's fluctuation and movement it would be difficult to pinpoint symmetry. If you look at the sun it appears symmetrical, but when you see it up close then you quickly see that it is not. There are flares and explosions that emanate from its roundness that are alive - not symmetric. But what if you looked closer, what would see? Or even closer. What ever one finds, nature seems to care much more about balance then it does about perfection. It is balanced to the degree that is necessary and no more. Nature is no perfectionist.


CP Violation

People like to make laws, and then scold people for violating them. A law is only good as long as it is useful. It is not good to think of it an absolute sense. It may be that a certain substances acts the same way 100,000 times. What's the use of then saying that it can never act differently, and if it does, why get bent out of shape about it? I think it's cool that the universe still surprises people, and especially those who think they can someday master it. People are of nature. Not the other way around.

Sacred Geometry and Physics

Physics and sacred geometry are intimately connected. Physics is the study of matter and energy and sacred geometry is the study of . . .  uhh, matter and energy. There's just a different focus. A physicist is more broad. Anything is ripe to study and how that study relates to human society and human experience is less defined. Sacred geometry on the other hand is at least in theory more concerned with the connection between nature and human society and human experience. It seems that in sacred geometry there is the idea that sacredness is inherent in the world, or nature, and that humans can learn from nature to copy, recreate, or create sacredness. A physicist may not feel it to be in his or her bounds to use the term sacred because of notions of objectivity. Every art is a science and every science is an art. There's always some form of human imposition or assumptions being made. Physics and sacred geometry are just two studies of the same world.