Eunoia

Eunoia is a word meaning "beautiful thinking." It also happens to be the shortest word in the English language to use all five vowels. By no coincidence, Canadian poet Christian Bök (pronounced "book") used the word as the title of a remarkable five chapter book that cycles through the vowels of the roman alphabet, devoting each chapter to the limited use of a single vowel to construct all words therein. The project took 7 years to actualize and if his often bizarre and humorous conceptual poetry wasn't enough, this staggering work has secured his place as one of the true innovators in the art of writing. The entire text can be found here.

2 things

On a returning flight from Guatemala last week, taking some time to contemplate some disparate wandering thoughts, I arrived at a couple ideas that might be characterize as scientific propositions.

1. The fundamental particles/fields of physics are not static. If particles are field quanta, energies at given momentum, that which differentiates one energy from another is not fixed. Energy may "flow" albeit not on a human but a cosmic time scale and collapses to some greater uniformity of energy.

2. All life-forms on Earth do not have a common origin. If conditions on Earth supported one biological genesis, then these conditions were such that a genesis could have been supported on multiple occasions.



I do not know (and most likely never will know) enough about physics or biology to go into this further, but hopefully more on this later.