Quark Love

Less than 5% of the stuff in our 13 billion year old universe is made of the same stuff we are; sub atomic particles, atoms, molecules, cells, bodies, trains, planes and automobiles. Remembering that mass comprises energy and energy comprises mass, the remaining 95% is divided into 1/3 dark matter and 2/3 dark energy which the kind of matter that we are made of can never directly interact with.

Dark matter might be a vast ensemble of  an elusive, mathematically derived sub atomic particles called WIMPS (Weakly Interacting Massive Particles). These particles are everywhere, possibly passing through your body now. Dark energy is the energy of free space. This says that any volume of space has an intrinsic property of possessing (at least) dark energy.

The bones of your hand and the skin on those bones is a collection of two types of things, fermions and bosons. Fermions create protons, neutrons and electrons which make iPhones and paddle wheel riverboats in addition to your hands. Bosons are energy carrying packets like the basic constituent of visible light, the photon.

Let me put it to you straight up. Arrangements*, aggregations, coalitions and ensembles of fermions and bosons are a vanishingly small fraction of the known universe and that very small part represents everything interior to you and exterior to us all.

A quark is the kind of standard particle that obeys the Fermi-Dirac equations so quarks are necessarily fermions. In Dallas-Fort Worth and most other places besides, fermions have an urgent need to become three quarks. Two kinds of things that collections of three quarks create are called protons and neutrons. Protons and neutrons (at sea level and nominal environmental conditions on this planet) do everything they can to form the atoms listed on the periodic table of the elements.

WIMPS

The organizing principle at each stage of aggregation (quarks, protons, atoms,,,,,, iPhones) is simple. Let us call each of these layers a holon; a collection of things where each thing is a collection of things and each thing can participate in higher holons by joining other coalitions to support structures above which are collections of things(higher order holon)s. It's turtles all the way down and all the way up.

Molecules do not make sense to quarks because the intention of molecules (in a pyramid of holons) provides advice and direction to quarks. That is, quarks are most likely to appear as a constituent of life on earth because the solar system wants it that way.

One Bad Ass God

So where is Poseidon in all this?

At worst, Poseidon is a culturally normative myth. At best, individual humans, a tribe of individuals, a village of tribes, a state of villages, a nation of states and a globe of nations come together with collective visions and behaviors from which emerges a power greater than ourselves along a political dimension. There are many other emotional and cognitive dimensions.

Notice that both the natural world and the political world are exterior to individual humans. We can participate as material objects in the 5% of the universe that has agreed to be our home. And since each individual has a mind each individual has some process running on the meat computer that represents the external world. Brains are made of fermions and bosons and these arrangements of quarks and photons are completely necessary to build a brain and a mind in the brain that can formulate the equations, build the instruments and assess the results to the net effect that fermions are thinking about fermions. Now that you read this, your fermions are thinking about fermions. So now we have multiple brains reading the photons from the pixels on an LCD display at different times and in various places. All this because we can pattern silicon to build computers and network processors and then sell this equipment at a profit around the globe to encourage investors to bet on us in a global market.

It is a poetic truth that minds conduct the affairs of quarks. In the 21st century we conduct the affairs of specific quarks with semiconductors that require the precise construction of a crystalline lattice of glass which traps precise constructions of impurities in that glass. At this point, the distribution of these semiconductors is controlled by a global aggregation of computing means into a single network that makes the Chilean Sea Bass on your dinner plate the freshest, most delicious and most foreign thing imaginable by our grandparents because their planet did not have a world wide web of interconnected processing means. All this from quarks desperately seeking other quarks to form Linksys routers and Huawei or Cisco Ethernet aggregation machinery in communication closets around the globe. Holons everywhen.

And, based on the evidence, I continue to meet up with groups of formerly drunk, presently sober individuals in nation states which support direct internet connections.

I do not understand exactly what happens in the holons above and I am on the hunt for a sketch of what this must look like. But everything I pass a road sign that declares God is off the next exit I find a mundane explanation that does not require the supernatural.

So once again, I have no response to the supernatural but I do respond to conceptions which start with the holon I can put myself in on the spot. This means I must be both present in the moment and aware of my interior state positioned in the exterior world.



*a superposition of energy plausibilities adumbrated by Schroedingers equations.