Week 8

1) Newton's Three laws and me.
If an apple feel on my head, my nature would to be figure out why? Not how? I live most of my time on the other side of the brain. The right that is. However, creating a poem or painting of a mathematical equation would always leave very subjective interpretation. I do appreciate his ability to see with the part of his brain that could determine the change of speed in Saturn as it passes by Jupiter in their orbits. A visual observation with a sextant or a modern record of time lapse photography could substantiate this event. However, this would not provide a equations create in the minds eye which could be used to determine the same event of mass and speed in evaluating multiple events of different size objects and their speed and provide a consist ant result in multiple events.

It seems as though a mathematicians minds eye is like an artist paint brush, it allows us to to use a model we can apply predict consistent result in the world around us.

So for two centuries his gave us a paint brush to describe and predict objects of different s size and speeds in motion, until Einstein created a kaleidoscope painting the universe in much vaster array of colors. His work help put the church in its place by substantiating Galileo and Copernicus's work making it clear man was not the center of the universe on a flat slab. It was interpreted and use by man to conquer his fear of nature and unfold the industrial revolution.

2) Our "Energy Efficient" Culture. Mankind is far from an energy efficient culture. The natural rhythms of nature are energy efficient. It's integrative cycle of nature rhythms maintains a balance by honoring whatever is used in the life cycle is given back in the same proportion to maintain a vital life cycle. Mankind is still trying to conquer natures natural rhythms to make life comfortable in the fear of his death. Contemporary energy efficiency is based in financial gain coinciding with. misguided power and control. The natural rhythms of the world as we know it are deteriorating at a
rapid pace as we comparatively make idle changes. It will be interesting to see if mankind adapts by his own conscious intervention or is awakened after a cataclysmic event spells out is to late.

3) Descartes has a lot to answer for.
Descartes answers well for his era in history. Galileo and Copernicus brought western man's consciousness partially out of it's western narcissistic state by providing enough information so that it would not be refute by the church. They were not burned at the steak and history began turning a new page. Newton provided the math to further substantiate the earth was not flat and mankind and earth were not the center of the universe.
Descartes just took the consciousness of the time and with smaller narcissistic bend kept mankind at the center of all events rather than another member of the whole with the same significance. This worked for several hundred years like all other eras of history until others with a greater cognitive sight in consciousness broke down the belief system that held Descartes box of ideas held so well for a period of time.