Week 7--Ordered Chaos

The chaos theory shows us that nature most often works in patterns, which are caused by the sum of many tiny pulses, like butterfly wings.  Sometimes I think that the earth is so complex and that the only way to predict her nature is that it is unpredictable.  The chaos theory looks at these unpredictable patterns.  The term "ordered chaos" can be applied to not only nature, but human body, history, art.
Fractals as patterns of complex systems is how we get order from disorder.  Fractals can be used to create or be used to describe seemingly random patterns.  Consciousness out of chaos, if I understand this correctly, is what Carl Jung was saying with his archetypes.  In another way, we can look at our daily routine and say we have the perfect partner, a lovely place to live, fantastic job, but a sick dog.  Maybe conciousness out of chaos should be conciousness out of "unbalanced".  It's funny how one event that occurs can affect our daily routine, and suddenly our world seems like a disaster. 
So with the help of a four year old boy, I did some of the experiements online on littleshop.  We (unsuccessfully) tried dragging a 70 pound dog across the room to create static, an imbalance of positive and negative charges.  Making a straw flute was not successful either, but we did do the Cartesian Diver and it worked.  Basically playing with pressure inside the water bottle and a packet of ketchup made the packet float or sink. The site said that this is how submarines control their own depth. 

Week 6 vibrations

Not all vibrations are "good". When I think of vibrations, I generally think about music, conversations, things that are electrically charged. Oscillating magnetic waves in a microwave is great for heating up food, but it is also important to consider some risks that come along with standing in front of one. We are not sure what the safe amount of exposure is, and microwaving creates new compounds that are not found in humans or in nature, called radiolytic compounds--we don't know what they do to our bodies yet. I would say that this is generally bad.
Resonance in my world occurs every day. Wikipedia said that a musical instrument is a resonant system can be used to generate vibrations at a specific frequency. I like this explanation, because I can just picture my violin students trying to vibrato--they all have different speeds; some super fast and others super slow and wide.
Qi is often described as energy. In physics, energy can be transformed into different types of energy. We are filled with energy in warmth, with moving fluids, have discharging electrical impulses. Professions exist to work with our qi, to balance and correct the flow of our energy.

Week 5--Symmetry and Sacred Geometry

My world tends to be more asymmetrical than symmetrical.  I tend to think that asymmetrical means that things are "less perfect" or out of order, which is actually comforting for me.  I do know that symmetry is looked at as perfection and beauty; it's pleasing to us.  It was confusing to think of myself as symmetrical while looking at myself in the mirror--the exact opposite, but the right side of my reflection should be my left side.  
The CP violation means that If we look out in space as far as we can see, all evidence says that the universe is made almost exclusively of matter, with little or no antimatter. Since matter and antimatter are basically just opposites of each other, why would there not be equal amounts of each?  Fundamental properties of matter (and antimatter) determine how the universe has evolved, and that if there is indeed more matter, then at least some elementary particle interactions must display CP violation.  
There are connections between sacred geometry and physics.  The Fibonacci sequence in 1209 is still being used to build elaborate spirals found in nature, such as in trees, flowers, bee hives.  The combination of physics and geometry explain how natural phenomena can actually work.  The spirals are so fascinating--it is clear that nature is not so random, but has it's own order.

Week 4

How has Einstein's famous formula affected me? He was basically saying that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter can be turned into energy, and energy into matter. With his formula, scientists can explain how the sun releases energy, nuclear fission, stellar energy. This formula is still confusing to me; I know that this concept is profound and can explain how we receive warmth from the sun, that a walnut has enough potential energy to power a city, and that PET scans make use of Einstein's equation. I certainly don't understand the math parts, but I know that this has helped in many scientific, social, cosmic discoveries.
The four forces can be compared, but rely on each other and work to unify our universe. Gravity has the furthest reach, but is weakest in magnitude. Electromagnetic force maintains the interaction of particles with an electrical charge. Weak nuclear force is responsible for radioactive decay and strong nuclear force keeps nucleons together. Gravity, keeps the planets in orbit around the sun and the moon in orbit around the Earth. It's the force that keeps us on the ground, always attracting objects and never repels.