Week 5

My (a)symmetrical world

I was trying to find a way to equate symmetry with balance (like yin-yang balance) and I think it makes sense if things are thought of in absolutes (like absolute numbers in math). Where there are no negative numbers, just positive numbers/how far away they are from zero. So symmetrically, yin and yang would be symmetrical because in the absolute world, they are the same. However black a thing is would be symmetrical to however white a thing is, because they are both extreme versions of gray.

My symmetrical world is kinda like that. I tend to think in terms of balance and patterns and things, so I can't help but see them constantly in my life. And it seems all the chaos (which should be the opposite of symmetry and balance) is just a part of the big picture that is my symmetrical life!


Just what does this "CP violation" really mean?

It seems like the more I try to find balance between things, the more I realize that the world works in three's. There is always this, that, and the other. Maybe the CP violation means there is a third part to the equation of matter and antimatter that we haven't discovered yet! And maybe the third will connect the differences between the first two. Are all parts of this CP violation equation in place? And even if there wasn't a third, would we really expect antimatter and matter to be totally equal? Then there would be nothing to work for, hence there would be no movement. Movement is only created when something needs to be accomplished. Maybe at this very moment, antimatter is striving to create more of itself, which creates movement in the universe, which creates life!


Are there connections between Sacred Geometry and Physics?

Physics is the "science of matter, and its motion, as well as space and time." The science of matter of a snowflake in space/time is pure geometry. To every snowflake, there is a 6 fold, nearly identical symmetry. It is rare that two are ever alike, and their shape is purely based on temperature and humidity.

Also, to make ties between black holes and the golden ratio...

"Perhaps the most surprising place the golden ratio crops up is in the physics of black holes, a discovery made by Paul Davies of the University of Adelaide in 1989. Black holes and other self-gravitating bodies such as the sun have a 'negative specific heat'. This means they get hotter as they lose heat. Basically, loss of heat robs the gas of a body such as the sun of internal pressure, enabling gravity to squeeze it into a smaller volume. The gas then heats up, for the same reason that the air in a bicycle pump gets hot when it is squeezed.

Things are not so simple, however, for a spinning black hole, since there is an outward 'centrifugal force' acting to prevent any shrinkage of the hole. The force depends on how fast the hole is spinning. It turns out that at a critical value of the spin, a black hole flips from negative to positive specific heat - that is, from growing hotter as it loses heat to growing colder. What determines the critical value? The mass of the black hole and the golden ratio!"
(http://en.allexperts.com/q/Physics-1358/Divine-Proportion-1.htm)