Braided palms from the marketplace
Christ dying on the cross
Christ living in a halo
Holding the eclipse in his mouth
the ancient serpent priest
tests the rain the sun the moon
marks his days
Amen
folds his hours
Amen
measures his year
from inside a blackened cave
Amen
Skeletal palm shadow
waving into the future
a man
a marker of every solstice
a dweller in every cave
braided into the hands
of humankind
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Chapter 13: What Matters
To be human is to suffer. During Lent we are reminded of Christ's passion and suffering for the sins of mankind. The road map of wounds He encoded on the Shroud preserve a depiction of a tortured, human man. Suffering becomes matter.
The Shroud is matter. Or is it? The cloth clearly is matter. But is the image on the cloth matter? Since it is an observable form, then would it not be deemed to be an expression of matter? But what kind of matter? This leads me to a whole new vein of questioning, this time from the world of quantum mechanics and mathematics...
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Is the Shroud perhaps the first example of observable dark matter?
Is the image on the Shroud our first detection of gravitons?
Is the image created by gluons?
Is it possible Christ radiated His anti-particle pairs via creating virtual sequences, thereby encrypting into the Shroud a copy of His image?
Did a wave function collapse account for the contact force between Christ's physical body and the cloth to become temporarily massless?
Did decoherence account for the thermodynamically irreversible loss of information between Christ's dead and alive body into the “environment” of the cloth of the Shroud?
Was Christ's body temporarily yet simultaneously dead and living and did the Shroud capture that moment of perceivable wave-particle duality?
Is the force that created the image on the Shroud the same force (which has yet to be discovered) that unifies the four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction?
If particles and anti-particles annihilate each other, is it inside that annihilation that we find the mediation capabilities of virtual particles?
Is the Shroud a tangible expression of mediation between life and death?
Jesus said: “I am the truth, the way and the life”
Is all life one singular life?
Although we cannot perceive the origin of the image of the Shroud, we can perceive that the Shroud image is indeed present.
Is the image the first manifestation in the physical world of a particle and a wave existing simultaneously in a way that is perceivable to the observer? Are we seeing particle and wave at the same time when we gaze upon the image of the Shroud?
Life = inertia = particle
death = expansion = wave
Is Christ's resurrection the mediation between death and life, life and death?
particle = life
anti-particle = death
virtual/mediating particle = resurrection
Even though we cannot perceive life and death as existing simultaneously, they do. Is the Shroud proof of this?
Life + Death = Resurrection
Resurrection = Death + Life
cloth = inertia, mass, density
image = expansion, masslessness, gravitons
Is the Shroud an expression of a possible symmetry between baryons and anti-baryons?
If a theoretical virtual particle, the graviton, is the mediating element in gravity and is a massless boson (because it has integer spin), then would non-baryonic matter (dark matter) be the static constant in terms of measurability and knowability?
Is it possible for mass and masslessness to exist simultaneously even though we cannot perceive it as such and must separate the two and perceive each individually?
Is the image on the Shroud an expression of simultaneous mass and masslessness, matter and anti-matter, baryons and anti-baryons, particles and anti-particles, waves and anti-waves, physical body mass and the massless soul...?
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So many questions arise from this single cloth
The mystery of this matter
Perhaps what truly matters
is what is hidden in the matter
Christ alive, Christ dead, Christ risen
and the one cloth that captured the moment
of life and death coexisting
so that we could perceive the possibility
The Shroud is matter. Or is it? The cloth clearly is matter. But is the image on the cloth matter? Since it is an observable form, then would it not be deemed to be an expression of matter? But what kind of matter? This leads me to a whole new vein of questioning, this time from the world of quantum mechanics and mathematics...
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Is the Shroud perhaps the first example of observable dark matter?
Is the image on the Shroud our first detection of gravitons?
Is the image created by gluons?
Is it possible Christ radiated His anti-particle pairs via creating virtual sequences, thereby encrypting into the Shroud a copy of His image?
Did a wave function collapse account for the contact force between Christ's physical body and the cloth to become temporarily massless?
Did decoherence account for the thermodynamically irreversible loss of information between Christ's dead and alive body into the “environment” of the cloth of the Shroud?
Was Christ's body temporarily yet simultaneously dead and living and did the Shroud capture that moment of perceivable wave-particle duality?
Is the force that created the image on the Shroud the same force (which has yet to be discovered) that unifies the four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, weak interaction, and strong interaction?
If particles and anti-particles annihilate each other, is it inside that annihilation that we find the mediation capabilities of virtual particles?
Is the Shroud a tangible expression of mediation between life and death?
Jesus said: “I am the truth, the way and the life”
Is all life one singular life?
Although we cannot perceive the origin of the image of the Shroud, we can perceive that the Shroud image is indeed present.
Is the image the first manifestation in the physical world of a particle and a wave existing simultaneously in a way that is perceivable to the observer? Are we seeing particle and wave at the same time when we gaze upon the image of the Shroud?
Life = inertia = particle
death = expansion = wave
Is Christ's resurrection the mediation between death and life, life and death?
particle = life
anti-particle = death
virtual/mediating particle = resurrection
Even though we cannot perceive life and death as existing simultaneously, they do. Is the Shroud proof of this?
Life + Death = Resurrection
Resurrection = Death + Life
cloth = inertia, mass, density
image = expansion, masslessness, gravitons
Is the Shroud an expression of a possible symmetry between baryons and anti-baryons?
If a theoretical virtual particle, the graviton, is the mediating element in gravity and is a massless boson (because it has integer spin), then would non-baryonic matter (dark matter) be the static constant in terms of measurability and knowability?
Is it possible for mass and masslessness to exist simultaneously even though we cannot perceive it as such and must separate the two and perceive each individually?
Is the image on the Shroud an expression of simultaneous mass and masslessness, matter and anti-matter, baryons and anti-baryons, particles and anti-particles, waves and anti-waves, physical body mass and the massless soul...?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
So many questions arise from this single cloth
The mystery of this matter
Perhaps what truly matters
is what is hidden in the matter
Christ alive, Christ dead, Christ risen
and the one cloth that captured the moment
of life and death coexisting
so that we could perceive the possibility
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