Blazing into New Territory
What is the foundational principle of Space Encounters II, rev. An Underground Principia: About Me and I?
From the Author:
Newton said that every particle of matter IN THE UNIVERSE was connected to every other particle. He was flabbergasted, astounded. How was it possible? But that’s what he said. His discoveries, which we built on for these over three centuries led him there. And he went. But filled with questions. He left them for us. And that’s where this book starts. This century has tackled the question of connectedness from many fronts. He asked it for us, to us, in 1687. Why are you, fifty miles from me, yet connected to me in some mysterious way? Can you influence me? Supposedly, yes. “But,” sputtered Newton, that admittedly great scientist who would have won a Nobel Prize hands down, had he lived later—who set us down into science for three and half centuries. “But”—he sputtered again—”what is the agent?” Thus, he asked An Underground PRINCIPIA’s opening question. He asked it in his own Principia. We had to go underground, into spirituality, quantum physics, esoteric laws of energy, very subtle energy—pursuing the answer. And did relics of “particles of matter” hang around, holding the intensity of that question? Evidently so, because many picked it up. How are you connected to “particles” on Venus, on Jupiter, in your front yard, downtown, a celebrity? And does that mean that the universe somehow “connects” its content?” Wraps the life force together somehow? And even a flower, a germ, a stone—that connects to you too? What is this mighty agent of connection? We start here, assured that we can never be totally isolated, any of us, not with these slivers of connectedness inherent in us, in our environment, in Life. Thanks, wise Newton. We like this idea in this century.
BOOK DESCRIPTION
Sir Isaac Newton famously complained about “action at a distance.” How was it possible, he wrote, that gravity, or attraction, operated between objects without physical contact? Well, jump to the twenty-first century, and we have a lot more to say about that. Readers will enjoy a brilliant, outrageous, playful exploration of quantum physics in everyday life, from a secret interplay of TV plots with us, in electricity, to other speculations, founded in the author’s decades of initiations as well as being an original thinker and a scholar.
An unusual feature of the illustrations in AN UNDERGROUND PRINCIPIA is a technique called “computer-PK,” or mind through matter in the creation of printouts that refocus the text on-screen in the printing so that nothing happens twice. As in Einstein’s “Credo,” the author exemplifies: “The most beautiful and deepest experience [one] can have is the sense of the mysterious.”
Cover image: Grant Goodwine
Cover design: Deborah Perdue
