Who speaks for the Kenning Stone? Not Merlin. Merlin speaks for no one since Nimue beguiled him. Though he raised the great stone from Cimmerian caverns to clasp Excalibur, the wizard could not lift himself above lust. The Wiccan women he took as lovers stole his power. In the enchanted forest of Brocéliande, he wanders […]
Wonder Bred
In the dream of a memory, we are again protists (prōtistos “the very first”). Two billion years ago, starved for nitrogen in the primordial sea, two protists tried to cannibalize each other and instead merged their nucleoli. From the very beginning then, food and sex became one joy! The combined protists contained two of everything: […]
Uncanny Face-Off
Cybernetic superintelligence is emerging from our simian minds. Are we strong enough for this uncanny face-off with an artifact smarter than we are? Quick assessment: We’ve been strong enough to break open atoms and peer inside the nucleus at the colorful dance moves of quarks and quark-pairs called gluons jitterbugging at the speed of light. […]
Far, Far, Far Out Future
Most of the particles in the universe are entangled.1 Entangled particles in 3D are connected by wormholes in 4D.2 By the way (and this is really interesting), the entanglement of wormholes doesn’t occur in spacetime. It actually creates spacetime.3 And, as everyone now knows, spacetime is expanding ever faster thanks to dark energy. It will […]
Grothendieck
Mathematics dates our wound from the time of the ancient Sumerians1 and their sexagesimal number system. This is the wound we suffered when, after 300,000 years of human existence, quantity became more important than quality. Mathematics cuts deeply into what we know. And we bleed a new strangeness that shames us into facing what we […]
An Eye for an i
We’ve unraveled across 13.8 billion years from some infinity. And now, look at us! We are an arrangement of atoms with an eye for i, iota, the mathematical expression √-1 … i2 = −1 … x2+ 1 = 0 … that famous imaginary number so useful to meeting our world realistically. Perpendicular to the Cartesian […]