September 30

How has E=MC2 affected my life
Mass is a wonderful thing, but it has a downside. That is, that it can feel heavy, sluggish, lethargic, and in so many ways stuck. In other words, there are physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual consequences and qualities to our concrete reality. Some of these are positive, some are negative, and of course none can live without the other. In spite of any perceived or experiential downsides mass is fundamental to life. Mass allows us to experience life. People, and especially wise people, throughout time have understood that mass is not as heavy as it may seem to be. It may not be as stuck or as inert as it seems to be and even the most massive of obstacles can be transformed and converted into something more useful and conducive to life. Einstein understood this fact of life as E=Mc2. This knowledge has most likely given way to other "discoveries" and developments in the realm of science, but there is also the internal experience of the coin that is mass and energy. Who knows how far and to what degree someone can use or utilize this aspect of reality? For me, the knowledge of it has a liberating quality for those reasons mentioned above. Our mass can be daunting but understanding that life is all a movement of energy is less so.

How would you compare The 4 forces
It is possible that the four forces are one force that are differentiated by the mind in order for us to conceptualize them more clearly. In other words we categorize to understand. With this said, we also live in a multifaceted and, at least temporarily, differentiated world. So up, down, to the outside, and to the inside matter. This like the 4 forces cannot be ignored.

There are some things that seem to be intrinsic to life. Out of a sense of arbitrariness I will state 4. Transformation as in birth and death, cohesion, or that which keeps things together, attraction and repulsion, or movement, and interdependence. Perhaps these relate to the weak nuclear force, the strong nuclear force,  electromagnetism, and gravity respectively, or maybe I've made a huge mistake in trying to synthesize or connect that which I don't fully understand. ???


What is the function of Gravity
Gravity keeps me grounded and connected to that which sustains me. Physically it allows me to act in the world with much more ease than if everything were floating about. It's very convenient. Mental gravity reminds me that I am not just a head, blabbing and lost in thought. Gravity ties me to a greater reality rather than a limited one of my own making. On any level gravity does its part.