Notes

 

          After twenty-two hundred hours. A busy day with family. You were about to go to bed when you saw a note on Facebook from Kay  Here it is and I think it is worthy of comment.

         Kay H.: Hi, I am honored to have been in competition for your heart with Sandy! Although I didn't really know that you liked me. The dance trophy was, as I remember it, for the end of dance classes that our mothers had signed us up for to get us ready for the big social scene yet to come. We, each as couples, had to go out into the middle of the dance floor which was the HS stage. The other dance students did the voting, I think, and we won!

         She, like Sandy, have been kind enough to respond to you after all these years. Neither one really knew what was going on in your young heart in those days. On the face of it you have a very timid soul and were overly sensitive to your emotions. The alphabet was magical to you in those upper elementary/junior high days and you used to use a formula of taking the girl’s full name and putting it next to your full name and crossing the like letters in both names off or out. Then the remaining letters were counted with Love, Marriage, Friendship, Hate in that order. The last letter would tell whether you two were destined for one of the four – love, marriage, friendship, or hate. You know this of course, and are embarrassed to show how childish you were in your boy-girl relationships. Plus, you really didn’t know how to verbally express yourself (politely and honestly) with the opposite sex.

         For consistency’s sake why don’t you include the recent photo from the reunion day as you did with Sandy. There is a connection, you see, fifty years later, and, taa, daa, friendship. You can see it in the photographs. Perhaps you will now better understand, why friendship is first in these books. True friendship has nothing to do with time, it is no wonder that it holds the species together after life. Friendship is the gravity of the heart, that’s the way it reads in here.

         With the mention of gravity I am reminded of Steven Hawking’s recent quote about G---D and gravity. Here is a part of his new book that I found online:

“If one assumes that a few hundred million years in stable orbit is necessary for planetary life to evolve, the number of space dimensions is also fixed by our existence. That is because, according to the laws of gravity, it is only in three dimensions that stable elliptical orbits are possible. In any but three dimensions even a small disturbance, such as that produced by the pull of the other planets, would send a planet off its circular orbit, and cause it to spiral either into or away from the sun.

The emergence of the complex structures capable of supporting intelligent observers seems to be very fragile. The laws of nature form a system that is extremely fine-tuned. What can we make of these coincidences? Luck in the precise form and nature of fundamental physical law is a different kind of luck from the luck we find in environmental factors. It raises the natural question of why it is that way.

Many people would like us to use these coincidences as evidence of the work of God. The idea that the universe was designed to accommodate mankind appears in theologies and mythologies dating from thousands of years ago. In Western culture the Old Testament contains the idea of providential design, but the traditional Christian viewpoint was also greatly influenced by Aristotle, who believed "in an intelligent natural world that functions according to some deliberate design."

That is not the answer of modern science. As recent advances in cosmology suggest, the laws of gravity and quantum theory allow universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the universe going.”

From: A book excerpt, September 4, 2010. Title: Why God Did Not Create the Universe by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow.

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         I do not claim to know that much about gravity and quantum theory which allows universes to appear spontaneously from nothing. But I like your concept about friendship being timeless and like gravity, Amorella.

         You more closely identify with your inner self than with Hawking and Mlodinow. As you make your own inner self observations, you change, orndorff. I help allow for that. Post. – Amorella.