In a glass chamber of patient experiment,forests of copper rods stand upright—a congregation of listeners awaiting the voice of the unseen. A pinwheel spins, not by air,but by the pressure of memory itself.Two black bellows rise and fall like sleeping lungs,breathing rhythm into gears that no hand commands. Within a wooden cradle, a white … Continue reading Page of Turning Wheels & Whispering Wind
8. The Odyssey — Homer
In the Standard Literary Model, The Odyssey behaves like a baryon: a bound state of wanderer, memory, and fate locked into an oscillatory pattern by the strong force of home. Odysseus is a quark of identity that refuses confinement yet can never fully escape it; every island he encounters is another local minimum in the … Continue reading 8. The Odyssey — Homer
No use to learn new skills or lessons when you’re going to neglect or forget previous ones.
Take for example: learning a language. While learning a new language is recommendable because it boosts your brainpower (memory, problem-solving), enhances career prospects in a globalized world, deepens cultural understanding and empathy, makes travel richer and easier, and even slows cognitive aging, offering significant personal and professional growth. But it's all wasted effort when you're … Continue reading No use to learn new skills or lessons when you’re going to neglect or forget previous ones.
Ω — The Living Machines
I. The Burrowed Hive-Stone Spore vents pulse in sudden joy.Once awakened, its silence is irretrievable.It feeds on echo, not on rain. x x II. The Needle Mesa Pegs inhale and withdraw in vertical measure.Upon its summit, songs of ascent are tested.It moves half a meter each century—a patient pilgrim of dust. x x III. The … Continue reading Ω — The Living Machines
This is the First Day of the rest of my Life.
Daily writing promptTell us about your first day at something — school, work, as a parent, etc. View all responses It's a choice not to be bound by the past. A fresh start to make choices that define my future, a turning point for personal change, ending a bad chapter, or simply deciding to live … Continue reading This is the First Day of the rest of my Life.
7. The Iliad — Homer
The Iliad is a collision event—two massive bodies (Achilles’ rage and Troy’s stubborn dignity) smashing together in a storm of hadronic debris. The poem behaves like a high-energy scattering experiment in which honor, mortality, and divine interference are particles exchanging momentum with catastrophic results. Achilles is effectively a top quark: heavier than the narrative can … Continue reading 7. The Iliad — Homer
Acting is more fun since you can pretend to be someone else while giving a speech is pretending that you’re genuine.
Daily writing promptHave you ever performed on stage or given a speech?View all responses Look at all those holly book stumpers, politicians, pulpit screamers... and compare the way the majority of them talk with the way the majority of them walk. On a personal level: on the rare occasions that I'm asked to deliver a … Continue reading Acting is more fun since you can pretend to be someone else while giving a speech is pretending that you’re genuine.
Σ — Instruments of Breach
I. The Red Splitter A chamber born of volcanic marrow,screaming softly when lifted.Constructed to open what refuses opening. II. The Reed Antenna It grows in pairs — one hears, one answers.Supple only beneath the moon.Crafted by engineers of the pre-tool era,who carved by resonance alone. x x III. The Amber Key Turns itself after every … Continue reading Σ — Instruments of Breach
The ability to speak softly and carry a big stick
meaning to be gentle in speech but powerful in action. "Soft words are hard arguments." – Benjamin Franklin, highlighting the persuasive power of gentle language. "The quiet voice whispers loudest at the end of the day." – Suggests lasting impact comes from thoughtful words, not immediate noise. "Sometimes, strength is a quiet voice that whispers." – Emphasizes inner … Continue reading The ability to speak softly and carry a big stick
6. The Upanishads (India)
The Upanishads function as renormalization techniques for inner life. They propose methods for subtracting superficial divergences—ego, desire—to reveal a more fundamental field of Brahman. Practices they recommend (meditation, ethical discipline) are operators reducing self-interaction terms and allowing consciousness to experience unified modes. In SLM, the Upanishads describe a path to lower-energy coherence: when the individual … Continue reading 6. The Upanishads (India)
Ψ — The Elemental Fields
I . The Silent Orchard Columns of honey-stone, hollowed by epochs.Each bore once held a watcher-seed;now only echoes harvest the light. x x II. The Cloud Tiller Wind kneaded into pattern,blue and deliberate.Seen only in the Second Soft Season,when eels speak in vapor and farmers listen. x x III. The Nocturne Garden Under the blackened … Continue reading Ψ — The Elemental Fields
5. The Vedas (India)
The Vedas operate like foundational field equations: hymns that set cosmological symmetries, ritual operators, and priestly mediators that maintain the sacrificial vacuum. Their liturgies are bosonic actions transmitting sacred charge between human and cosmic realms. The sacrificial system establishes selection rules that regulate social stratification and perform energy transfers (offerings), preserving cosmic order (ṛta). In … Continue reading 5. The Vedas (India)
Θ — The Networks of Fire
I. The Horizon Arc Sparks migrate across its filament like disciplined suns.At dawn, the golden mouth opens in ritual breath.Duration: three pulses of the black clock.Measure it not in time, but ignition. x x II. The Entangled Ribbon Twin paths, forever arguing,yet carrying one ancestral flame.The scholars insist: “This is not symmetry, but memory folding … Continue reading Θ — The Networks of Fire
Reaching the Finish of A Personal Journey
Daily writing promptWhat positive events have taken place in your life over the past year?View all responses After about five years of making the same New Year's resolution I can start to think about another challenge now that my novel The Maharajagar has finally been published. You can find it at the Library of Forgotten … Continue reading Reaching the Finish of A Personal Journey
4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
The Book of the Dead functions as a manual for traversing the post-mortem vacuum: a set of boundary conditions and selection rules for the soul-field’s passage through the underworld. Each spell is a local operator altering the probability amplitude of safe passage—preserving identity-mass against decay. The heart-weighing scene is a literal measurement device: the scales … Continue reading 4. The Book of the Dead (Ancient Egypt)
Φ² — The Compound Blossoms
I. The Upward Fountain Seed A small sphere released into descending body—petals imploding, throat unfolding.It dreams of weight, not flight. II. The Spindle Cluster Five arms listening to themselves,their mouths exhaling vaporous conjecture.Gold nodes murmur in signal-sleep—a nursery for thunder delayed. III. The Double Vessel Two halves orbiting a shared stillness.Their bridges quiver with unspoken … Continue reading Φ² — The Compound Blossoms
3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Instruction of Ptahhotep is a low-energy effective theory: a compact Lagrangian of social rules that regulate interaction in an Egyptian legal-gauge. Its aphorisms act like conserved currents—protocols that minimize conflict and stabilize the civic vacuum. Each proverb functions as a mediated interaction (gauge boson) transmitting authority from elder to younger generations. The "mass" these … Continue reading 3. The Instruction of Ptahhotep (Ancient Egypt)
The Orphic Spheres and Associated Systems
(A Treatise on Contained Light and Living Mechanism) “Every sphere is a thought that forgot its boundary.” Φ — The Orphic Spheres I. The Ember Seed Formed in the still compression of hidden chambers,it hums when observed, as though warmth were a form of language.Its rotation escapes all clocks of soft matter.The elders whisper: “Do … Continue reading The Orphic Spheres and Associated Systems
2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Tale of Sinuhe reads as an early field-theory experiment in identity and exile. Sinuhe is a fermionic excitation displaced from the Egyptian vacuum by war and rumor; his wandering through Levantine courts resembles a particle propagating through different media with varying coupling constants—hospitality, dishonor, foreign custom. Egypt itself functions as a dominant Higgs-like background … Continue reading 2. The Tale of Sinuhe (Ancient Egypt)
The Three Engines of Renewal
“From stillness, motion. From motion, stillness once more.” Where the Mechanisms end, the Engines begin.If the first taught matter how to transform,these teach it how to return —not to what it was,but to what it remembers itself to be. Each engine is a wheel within the greater wheel of being:a reversal, a turning, a breath.Their … Continue reading The Three Engines of Renewal
The Maharajagar 