| Gentlemen! Gentlemen! (Er-hrum).
It’s just words, my good fellows. Here, have a cigar. You too, FC? Good.
Brandy? Excellent.
I do believe in synchronicity, at least as far as I can believe in anything else. Just believing the sun will rise tomorrow takes a certain amount of faith. Now, with that same amount of faith, I believe the entire universe is connected with itself – we pathetic humans being mixed in with all the rest of it.
That said, let me point out that Newton’s third law of motion states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. This REACTION (and many a physics teacher will tell you this) actually is not a reaction at all, but a SIMULTANEOUS action. The action-reaction sequence doesn’t happen within a temporal chain of cause and effect – i.e. the cue ball striking the eight ball then the eight ball rolling away – but at the same time, as one unity of activity. The term “action and reaction” is unfortunate and misleading. Either the cue ball or the eight ball can be said to have been the ACTION part of the interaction; and either one could have been called the reaction. It is completely arbitrary which label we place on which one.
It’s all one event happening together.
Anyway, I’m not quite sure how to prove it, yet, but I believe that if any two events in our unified universe are simultaneous – then all things are simultaneous with all other things, by virtue of the fact that there is no absolute empty space, that we’re all touching through forces, gravity, electrical, electromagnetic, etc.
ER, pardon me. I didn’t mean to get carried away like that. This brandy always makes me a little dreamy, and my age sometimes makes me want to go on at the mouth a bit.
“Nuther cigar? |