convergence experiment 

Leaving the desert -alternative narrative 

Don't believe I am actually getting here.  There is a definite benefit of spending ones life close to the future.  Can't abide the past except for a few things to "carry-on" and as little baggage as possible makes for a smoother trip.  The whole concept of working as a group and making the "pot boil" with the energy we each bring is a most interesting idea.  I am thrilled to be a part of something so far from the pedestrian.  What pieces I can offer will come of what I have been able to save from the wreckage of life.  The more I learn the more I realize how real Alice in Wonderland was.  Life is making the composition.  Experience is the writer.  Knowledge is the editing filter.  It is the one small way we rationize the events which happen to the bundle of subatomic particles we are.   The universe is in us around us it is all.

I had an interview set with a very close friend of mine who just published her first book...a collection of short stories.  This is not going to happen at this time. Her little boy had to be rushed to the hospital with a serious health condition.  So this is composition plan B.

Composition versus a compound.  Something that is a compound is created by unique elements, which retain their individual integrity and could be mechanically separated.  A typical compound something simple like i.e. Adobo seasoning or any other prepared seasoning.  Each element in the mixture retains all of its physical characteristics and co-mingles in the substance in whatever proportion assigned and having its own influence as far as reaction or action within the mix.

A composition however differs in that each element of the mixture gives up some of its characteristics and takes on some of the characteristics of other elements.  A perfect example is water.  Oxygen in the pure state at normal temperature and pressure is a gas.  Hydrogen in its natural state at normal temperature and pressure is also a gas...when the hydrogen and oxygen combine each loses something and each gains something and their individual characteristics are changed to those of the new composition.  Water is a liquid at normal temperature and pressure.  It turns to vapor at a given point (100C) (212 F) at normal pressure.  Oxygen turns to vapor at a cold temperature and even colder it turns to liquid. Thus the physical properties of the composition are changed.  Those properties, which are unique to water, are unique to neither of the separate elements. 

In order to achieve a composition there must be certain properties altered according to a specific hierarchy. This is true if the composition is a wall mural, a novel, a glass of water (both the water and the glass) or nuclear fission.  There is not one composition in the universe that does not follow its own unique hierarchy.

Language is a man-made hierarchy created for the transmission of ideas.  In writing a certain hierarchy must be adhered to, in order to transmit a coherent message and achieve a composition.  Without adherence to this hierarchy the net result would be a compound of unrelated verbiage.

In music not following a hierarchy in composition would lead not to coherent sound but cacophony.

The more one examines the concept the more one realizes that there is a universal element of hierarchy which is unique to each but universal in its existence.

Convergence/emergence One of the most visual examples of this concept is Terminal Island California.  (The port of Los Angeles)

On a daily basis hundreds of ships from every area of the world converge on the port filled with raw materials, lumber, food products, automobiles, oil, furniture and every consumer product imaginable.  

They find a niche in the maze of docks and cranes, automated and efficient in off loading tons of products daily.  The sea outside the harbor is filled with ships waiting to enter, waiting for their place in line.  In the maze of docks are thousands of trucks waiting for their share of the bounty.  There are hundreds of railroad cars from all points of the land wait to be loaded with their share.   The thousands of miles of railroad track are all interconnected, swarming with cars and their engines all with a different destination to deliver their shipments.   Weaving in and out of the maze are thousands of trucks all claiming a load of the cargo bound for everywhere a highway leads.  There is a steady pulse of the materials leaving the port.  What was once neatly loaded cargo on the huge ships of the world are now individual shipments to unique destinations.  What converged a ship, emerged a truck or a railroad car.  (No small percentage of the trucks are headed straight for Arkansas.) 

This process continues around the clock and the calendar.  The repeated convergence and emergence that keeps our country supplied.  On the dock it is one reality, the deck of a ship another and from the helicopter flying over the port it is another reality. From space watching the process takes on yet another reality.  All are levels of convergence and emergence.

Reading 3  What is life?

Blog 3 What is life? Margulis & Sagan

I found the reading so on point with what I had been thinking during the first weeks of class. The laws of Physics are the basic truths by which we observer the universe. With each passing decade we come closer to what is already written than finding a new path.

The first law of physics …Energy whether as light, movement, radiation, heat, radioactivity, chemical or other is conserved. Nothing is lost or gained merely changed. Perhaps that is why it is so hard to loose weight…the substance has to be converted into another form…burned as heat or energy…either staying warm in cold weather or running. This why a calorie can be so well defined…it is a specific amount of heat or energy.

The second law of physics reinforces this concept expanding to explain the loss of energy in the form of heat and friction. When you get up and run you are burning energy faster. Entropy increases any chemical reaction seeks equilibrium and therefore if the reaction is increased the entropy is increased.

"The origin of the second law can be traced to French physicist Sadi Carnot's 1824 paper Reflections on the Motive Power of Fire, which presented the view that motive power (work) is due to the flow of caloric (heat) from a hot to cold body (working substance). In simple terms, the second law is an expression of the fact that over time, ignoring the effects of self-gravity, differences in temperature, pressure, and chemical potential tend to even out in a physical system that is isolated from the outside world. Entropy is a measure of how much this evening-out process has progressed."(Wikipedia)

There are many versions of the second law, but they all have the same effect, which is to explain the phenomenon of irreversibility in nature. For all time there has been a quest to understand the directionality of everything. Time moves in one direction…chemical, physical, mechanical reactions all progress in one direction (though many are reversible time is not) they all proceed in one direction at a given time. Gravity pulls in one-direction and life proceeds in a specific forward moving timeline.

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