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Annus Mirabilis-1905

March is a time of transition winter and spring commence their struggle between moments of ice and mud a robin appears heralding the inevitable life stumbling from its slumber it was in such a period of change in 1905 that the House of Physics would see its Newtonian axioms of an ordered universe collapse into a new frontier where the divisions of time and space matter and energy were to blend as rain and wind in a storm that broke loose within the mind of Albert Einstein where Brownian motion danced seen and unseen, a random walk that became his papers marching through science reshaping the very fabric of the universe we have come to know we all share a common ancestor a star long lost in the eons of memory and yet in that commonality nature demands a permutation a perchance genetic roll of the dice which births a new vision lifting us temporarily from the mystery exposing some of the roots of our existence only to raise a plethora of more questions as did the papers of Einstein in 1905 SAN DIEGO 9/05 Philosophy of Science Portal Tim Ray Poet Colleague i was working as a "Stringer" for the above blog searching the Internet for articles on physics and philosophy and was asked to write this as part of a celebration of the 100-year mark of Einstein's papers. i do not do requests but i conceded for reasons. my claim to fame herein is a poke at Einstein's statement that God does not play with dice, however, was not he a permutation in the scheme of things? and lest we forget he objected to the Big Bang theory holding onto the Steady State with other scientists because it was too much like Genesis. and lost to Bohr over Quantum Entanglement, settled by John Stewart Bell...but who is counting? and these peccadillos stand in little shadows of those papers in 1905.

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Date: 7/22/2023 11:23:00 PM
you can find this poem posted on a Physics blog i used to research for....pictured on the left is me and my cats, Einstein and Princess...what you will find in the my Bio, i have little formal education, i am an autodidact, have no discipline for formal education but i sit at the feet of scholars and learn...they have the discipline....that it, oh yeah i am a Homesman (urban dictionary) http://philosophyofscienceportal.blogspot.com/2010/06/lewis-carrolls-odd-poem.html
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Date: 6/13/2022 8:11:00 PM
Who knows Tim, what new theories are yet to be born? Men in philosophy and science, or not in those fields, believe they know truth. Not being the creator of the universe, nor seer is fine with me, nor falsely assuming I have all the answers, works for me. Being a human being, acknowledging the greatness in each one is best, I think. I love Einstein! Ee Commings..”Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.” Your great education is showing! Panagiota xx
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Date: 6/13/2022 11:54:00 AM
Timothy! A superbly splendid piece! And I love the comparison to weather’s struggle to pass from winter to spring. Splendid flow in this work tho. I hope the rest of the universe does better with fre Will than humanity’s history. IMHO, God weeps. Check your SpMail please. Bravo! Your pen!
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Date: 6/13/2022 8:53:00 AM
my contention is the whole of the universe has Free Will....it is a package by which we humans are to learn, whether fortunate or misfortune....we are taught not to bear a cross but to conquer it...no matter what life is it is as my mother used to say...Paradise is between the ears and that is your job, not the world....acceptance opens the heart, bitterness seals it...today whatever the day presents, i am not alone in this
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