Circling a Real Asymmetry
science ↔ non-science entanglement through love:
towards a unified field
Science aims for repeatable insight
Art aims for unrepeatable expression
Method and meaning will no longer live in separate rooms. They will be one state. Entanglement, superposition, and collapse of the wave function. That sounds like love-making to me.
As a very young child, my first memory is wonder at creation. After burning my finger in a candle, receiving a good electric shock when I put a screw driver in a socket, disassembling my mother’s transistor radio, gluing our tongues to the frozen ski lift, and falling in love for the first time, it became clear to me that there were forces at work around me that I had to know more about in order to stay happy and alive.
To do this, I had to learn from others. It became clear to me that the answer was elusive. But learning was getting me closer. Learning became a quest. Close is good. My Prior, one day whispered in the corridor to me: “tell me more about quantum physics”.
The flame that ignited this project, was the discovery of the passionate revelation to Federico Faggin, and the introduction of “quality” in my life, through qualia: Love matter and matter love – Love mass and mass love. As a leitmotif in my convent, love is present every breathing moment. To see Federico explain his experience moved me. It became clear to me that a union of science and spirituality was absolutely possible. It turned my world upside down. I suddenly realized what I was sensing, moved by, and feeling aware of, with science behind it.
Seven years living as a hermit in a Carmelite monastery has made me very sensitive to profound inner resonance. There is a certain relationship between inner resonance and outer conversion that results in reality cognition.
If conversion is a step, resonance is walking: waking up in the morning with coffee and toast, in our dreams or prayers and fantasies – taking flight; and while walking and flying, there is the implication of space and time and light as a whole: a sensible reality, both inside and out, and oh so real! The inner pain of loss, betrayal and death feels solid inside. As does the first touch, embrace or kiss after awareness, but best of all, the feeling of forgiveness, the act of forgiving and the grace of pardon. Free.
Love is mapped all over reality, would we exist without love? Does that mean that it is fundamental? In what way? Skim the sites and open an article that draws your attention. Read between the math like reading between lines. Above all, enjoy the ride.
Fr. Frederik Takkenberg OCD
Sensible Universe 