Thursday, January 26, 2006

Tasmanian Wilderness

What do you feel when in the presence of enormous mountains, when you are sitting on top of a peak, letting the lactic acid in your legs settle while you look at the track traversed thus far?

Just one word - 'Yes'. An affirmation. Yes I conquered you, Yes you conquered me. You reaped me, barred my way, battled me and kept my life teetering on the edge of an abyss. You sucked the energy from my body, my bones, down through the soles of my feet unto the earth where they treacherously trod.

Yes to the earth that is made up of us both. Me and this Mountain.
Yes to the motivation that caused my drive to my purpose. Yes to what is catalysed within me. I'm alone when I design a painting in this mountains image, and no-one will ever know the way in which I own it. But if others say their own Yes to it - its also theirs, and I am glad.

Sunday, January 08, 2006

Multiverse Theory

Quantum physics leads to the rejection of determinism


An interpretation of quantum theory is the multiverse or many-worlds theory. It holds that as soon as a potential exists for any object to be in any state, the universe of that object transmutes into a series of parallel universes equal to the number of possible states in which that the object can exist, with each universe containing a unique single possible state of that object. Furthermore, there is a mechanism for interaction between these universes that somehow permits all states to be accessible in some way and for all possible states to be affected in some manner. Stephen Hawking and the late Richard Feynman are among the scientists who have expressed a preference for the many-worlds theory.