Cr34t0rJuly 4, 2012 11:52 AM wrote:
Dear Shinzen, humanity calls for your explanation about Higgs boson. can't wait to read it.
It's a Papist conspiracy!
They realized you can't have Mass without it!
So much for humor; let me try
metaphor.
Higgs is a sort of viscosity
field that confers materiality to particles that would otherwise just be
pure radiation. In some way, that seems analogous to how sensory
viscosity causes the flow of experience to coagulate into the impression of
somethingness. Neuroscientists are beginning to look into that.
Richie Davidson and others refer to it as "stickiness".
Stickiness might be the reciprocal (opposite) of what I call equanimity.
But comparing this with the Higgs field is just a fun simile.
Probably no more relevant to human spirituality than my corny attempt at humor.
Parallels like this can be
fun, but we should resist the temptation to read too much into them. Here
are some of my favorite parallels and my caveat.
Yep, its almost like the particle physicists have forgotten they eever heard of Werner Heisenberg. Its a wave! A field! Not a particle.
ReplyDeleteScientific imagery is for me useful as metaphor, as symbolic representations.
ReplyDeleteBrilliant and fun, as usual.
ReplyDeleteThank you!