Saturday, October 27, 2007
The Large and the Small
I have for some time been fascinated with the differential scale of things. In my investigations (all be it superficial) I have found many commonalities among the macro and the micro worlds. To my imagination they should not be all that different and thus we are told that they are. As effect, I have been blocked, always barred from seeing how this circle that springs forth is eventually resolved. I had resigned myself to the fact of not knowing, as I believed that there was not enough evidence to figure such a notion out, but maybe I was wrong. I was looking for some sort of linking agent that would transform large to small and then, as we already understand the primary conversion from small to large, this cycle would be complete. However, now I am thinking that it is possible that such an agent is unnecessary as I was enlightened by an explanation from De Cusa in De Docta Ignorantia. In his attempts to unify one to all he remarkably displays with the simplicity of word that these differentially scaled universes are the same. He argues, “maximum quantity is maximally large; and minimum quantity is maximally small. Therefore, if you free maximum and minimum form quantity–by mentally removing large and small-you will see clearly that maximum and minimum coincide…for in the minimum is the maximum coincidingly.” This is a genius approach and one that another genius, in his own right, Stephen Hawkins is supposedly working towards an explanation for. The proof must be shown through the only language from which we can derive true meaning, mathematics, and his search for equations that will support a notion for the connectedness of these two seemingly opposite worlds, if found, will be a revelation indeed.
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