All the Worlds There Are

Just watching raindrops slapping leaves is better than anything requiring electricity including fame and posterity. Monday morning I walk over to the art museum stand before Homer. I'm imagining life in ancient Greece, the land largely deforested to build a navy, white as bone, a tourist attraction. The sea too being denuded of its fish, super-efficient fishery fleets, and every human wanting a healthy dose of omega 3. O my God, omega! the 24th and last letter of his alphabet, which means great and has a value of 800, often used to denote the last, the end, the ultimate limit of a set, as in I am the alpha and the omega (which was omitted from the oldest manuscripts). In physics, omega (ohm) is a unit of electrical resistance, in chemistry, oxygen-18, a stable isotope, in statistical mechanics, it represents multiplicity (the number of microstates) in a system. In astronomy, the density of the universe (density parameter), the ranking of a star’s brightness in a constellation, and the orbital elements: the longitude of the ascending node and the designation of the argument of periapsis of an orbit. Also the solid angle or rate of precession in a gyroscope. In particle physics, omega baryons. In complex analysis, the Omega constant, a solution to Lambert's W-function. In calculus, a variable for a 2-dimensional region, usually corresponding to the domain of a double integral. In topos theory, the codomain of the subobject classifier of an elementary space. In combinatory logic, the looping combinator. In group theory, the omega and agemo subgroups of a p-group. In Big O notation, the asymptotic behavior of functions. Chaitin's uncomputable constant. Omega watches, badge of the Supreme Court, last mission of the Space Shuttle program, God of War, Heroes of Olympus, Pokemon's Omega Ruby, Sonic the Hedgehog's E-123. Symbol of resistance to the Vietnam War draft. Year of date of death. Lowest-ranked wolf. In molecular biology, a two-point crossover. The lower case omega denotes the carbon atom furthest from the carboxyl group of a fatty acid. One of the RNA polymerase subunits. The dihedral angle associated with the peptide group. A measure of evolution at the protein level. In dynamics, angular velocity or angular frequency. In computational fluid dynamics, the specific turbulence dissipation rate. In meteorology, the Lagrangian time rate of change of pressure for a parcel of air. Natural frequency in circuit analysis and signal processing. The omega meson. NULL, a missing or inappropriate value. The first transfinite ordinal number. The first uncountable ordinal number. The complex cube roots of 1. The Wright Omega function. A general differential form. The number of distinct prime divisors of n. An arithmetic function. The self-application combinator. The elasticity of financial options. The tracking error of an investment manager. In linguistics, the phonological word. The archetype of a manuscript tradition. In eschatology, the symbol for the end of everything. The beginning of my first week without tv. No more movies. If I have nothing to do or I'm too bored to do anything, I'll just sit still see what happens. Be like weather. Be under the weather, with the weather, in weather. Watch weather from the window. Wait for change, in me and the weather. How will I change? This is life and not life. In 15 years or so I'll be gone from the earth, bones whitening on some mountain or rotting in the lowlands river or estuary I lived near, flesh to sweat flesh with the population, dead. This death, consciousness of which should give this life's activities perspective, except for the red sunset which remains untouched by atomic IQ; and dead, laying open to the blue sky and dry leaves one autumn like last autumn, or the autumn I realized my insignificance.