Early afternoon. Carol is napping and the two cats are curled up nearby.
The day has been quiet and lazy except for earlier when Kim, Paul and the boys
called on ‘Facetime’ and you could see the presents that Owen wanted to show
you (an ‘Ironman’ toy and a red ‘Cars’ phone). You did put on a red shirt and a
Santa hat. Owen reacted surprised and said, “Santa” first. Brennan was busy.
Kim was about ready to make cookies and Paul was working on something at the
kitchen island. – Carol just woke up and is downstairs preparing lunch. –
Amorella
1347 hours. It has been a very pleasant peaceful day. Maybe we will go
for a country drive after lunch. –
“Hot,
cold, wet and dry” popped in out of the blue as well as “Earth, air, fire and
water.” I must be thinking about Aristotle; “the fifth element” also comes to
mind. Surely Aristotle will not give credence to Amorella from the Fifth
Element.
Without a thought you jumped to two online
sources; Answers dot yahoo and Wikipedia. Now that you have read over their
responses you are confused as to how Aristotle would make such a reference to
me, the Amorella. Your ‘intuition’ was gleaning from your ‘unconscious stream’.
Let’s use Wikipedia here; drop it in then as you read cut you will; then
re-read from what you would consider Aristotle’s perspective. – Amorella
1500 hours. None of these short ‘essays’ are as I would have expected. I
always find this strange that such diverse perspectives would come out of my
head. I don’t feel I am a multiple personality from the classical psychological
definition, but I don’t feel that I am ‘altogether a fully single entity – too
many extensions.
But
from a single blade, boy. – Amorella
The
mind is an interesting place to be.
Whether you believe it or not you are heart
and soul too, at least from my perspective. I would not be here otherwise. -
Amorella
** **
Greek concept of the
cosmos. The innermost spheres are the terrestrial spheres, while the outer are
made of aether and contain the celestial bodies
In Plato’s Timaeus (55d) speaking about air, Plato mentions that "there
is the most translucent kind which is called by the name of aether
(αίθηρ)". Aristotle, who had been Plato’s student at the Akademia,
disagreed with his former mentor and added aether to the system of the
classical elements of Ionian philosophy as the "fifth element", He
noted that the four terrestrial classical elements were subject to change and
naturally moved linearly. Aether however, located in the celestial regions and
heavenly bodies, moved circularly. In Aristotle's system of classical elements,
aether had none of the qualities the terrestrial classical elements had. Aether
was neither hot nor cold, neither wet nor dry. Aether did not follow
Aristotelian physics either. Aether was also incapable of motion of quality or
motion of quantity. Aether was only capable of local motion. Aether naturally
moved in circles, and had no contrary, or unnatural, motion. Aristotle also noted that crystalline spheres made of
aether held the celestial bodies. The idea of crystalline spheres and natural
circular motion of aether led to Aristotle’s explanation of the observed orbits
of stars and planets in perfectly circular motion in crystalline aether.
Medieval scholastic philosophers granted aether
changes of density, in which the bodies of the planets were considered to be
more dense than the medium which filled the rest of the universe. Robert Fludd stated that the aether was of the
character that it was "subtler than light". Fludd cites the
3rd-century view of Plotinus, concerning the aether as penetrative and
non-material.
Legacy
With the 18th century physics
developments physical models known as "aether theories" made use of a
similar concept for the explanation of the propagation of electromagnetic and
gravitational forces. As early as the 1670s, Newton used the idea of aether to
help match observations to strict mechanical rules of his physics. However, the
early modern aether had little in common with the aether of classical elements
from which the name was borrowed. These aether theories are considered to be
scientifically obsolete, as the development of special relativity showed that
Maxwell's equations do not require the aether for the transmission of these
forces. However, Einstein himself noted that his own model which replaced these
theories could itself be thought of as an aether, as it implied that the empty
space between objects had its own physical properties.
Despite the early modern aether models being
superseded by general relativity, occasionally some physicists have attempted
to reintroduce the concept of aether in an attempt to address perceived
deficiencies in current physical models. One proposed model of dark energy has
been named "quintessence" by its proponents, in honor of the
classical element. This idea relates to the hypothetical form of dark energy
postulated as an explanation of observations of an accelerating universe. It
has also been called a fifth fundamental force. This quintessence however
differs from the cosmological constant, in that it is changing over time unlike
the constant and unchanging quintessence of the medieval and ancient Greek
period.
Aether and light
The motion of light was a long-standing
investigation in physics for hundreds of years before the 20th
century. The use of aether to describe this motion was popular during the 17th
and 18th centuries, including
a theory proposed by the less well-known Johann Bernoulli, who was recognized
in 1736 with the prize of the French Academy. In his theory, all space is
permeated by aether containing "excessively small whirlpools." These
whirlpools allow for aether to have a certain elasticity, transmitting
vibrations from the corpuscular packets of light as they travel through.
This theory of aether would influence the wave
theory of light proposed by Christian Huygens, in which light traveled in the
form of longitudinal waves via an "omnipresent, perfectly elastic medium
having zero density, called aether". At the time, it was thought that in
order for light to travel through a vacuum, there must have been a medium
filling the void through which it could propagate, as sound through air or
ripples in a pool. Later, when it was proved that the nature of light wave is
transverse instead of longitudinal, Huygens' theory was replaced by subsequent
theories proposed by Maxwell, Einstein and de Broglie, which rejected the
existence and necessity of aether to explain the various optical phenomena.
These theories were supported by the results of the Michelson-Morley experiment
in which evidence for the presence of aether was conclusively absent. The
results of the experiment influenced many physicists of the time and
contributed to the eventual development of Einstein's theory of special
relativity.
Aether and gravitation
Aether has been used in various gravitational
theories as a medium to help explain gravitation and what causes it. It was
used in one of Sir Isaac Newton’s first published theories of gravitation, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
(the Principia). He based the whole description of planetary motions on
a theoretical law of dynamic interactions. He renounced standing attempts at
accounting for this particular form of interaction between distant bodies by
introducing a mechanism of propagation through an intervening medium. He calls
this intervening medium aether. In his aether model, Newton describes aether as
a medium that "flows" continually downward toward the Earth's surface
and is partially absorbed and partially diffused. This "circulation"
of aether is what he associated the force of gravity with to help explain the
action of gravity in a non-mechanical fashion. This
theory described different aether densities, creating an aether density
gradient. His theory also explains that aether was dense within objects and
rare without them. As particles of denser aether interacted with the rare
aether they were attracted back to the dense aether much like cooling vapors of
water are attracted back to each other to form water. In the Principia he attempts to explain
the elasticity and movement of aether by relating aether to his static model of
fluids. This elastic interaction is what caused the pull of gravity to take
place, according to this early theory, and allowed an explanation for action at
a distance instead of action through direct contact. Newton also explained this
changing rarity and density of aether in his letter to Robert Boyle in 1679. He
illustrated aether and its field around objects in this letter as well and used
this as a way to inform Robert Boyle about his theory. Although Newton
eventually changed his theory of gravitation to one involving force and the
laws of motion, his starting point for the modern understanding and explanation
of gravity came from his original aether model on gravitation.
Selected and edited from Wikipedia – Aether
(classical element)
** **
You
had leftover soup for supper and a small cup of what was left of an ‘older’
container of Graeter’s black cherry chocolate chip that you found in the back
of the freezer. You and Carol watched NBC News and an ancient episode of
“Revenge” you had not seen as well as two episodes of earlier “Modern Family”. Carol
went upstairs to read and you are sitting by the still lit Christmas tree in
the living room. – Amorella
2036 hours. I have forgotten what I read about the ‘Fifth Element’ in
Wikipedia. In a way I don’t see how it relates anyway.
Don’t re-read it. – Amorella
I wasn’t planning to. I don’t know how to get into A –
You cannot remember this name. – Amorella
I cannot. – Aristotle; Plato and Aristotle. Twenty seconds or so and
nothing besides the first letter. This is a timely example of my lapse of
memory, the lapse of a person’s name. I have done the same for daughter, Kim;
wife, Carol; friends, and myself – in public. Not often, but it happens. Not me
in public. I check my driver’s license which I almost always have with me.
You want to complete this assignment
tonight, to have Aristotle describe whether I am real or not. Let’s see what
you can do here. – Amorella
I discover an interloper in my head. Eventually I
assign her a female form even though she is formless. When she writes I
italicize her words. This is my attempt to grammatically control Amorella, but
I have witnessed her free will. I allow her free will because I have free will.
I respect her space in my head.
Is Amorella form or function? She is form (a being)
first and function second. She is just as I am, a being first so that I might
then function. I am a physical being but she is not. Amorella functions through
me. Without me being here, she cannot function. She must use me first. Therefore
it is a matter of free will, my own free will. I allow her to exist and exert
herself into my mind and heart. Can Amorella exert herself into my soul? She
can only if I allow it. She is dependent on me. I am not dependent on her for
her ‘being/existing’.
Amorella is not earth, air, fire or water. She must
be of the fifth element just as the soul must be of the fifth element. Both the
soul and Amorella exist without time or space, at least in definition. Amorella
has been consistent in her grammatical behavior and she has been intent on
helping me as a friend and coach or teacher would for over twenty years. I have
gained in my freedom to consider more human possibilities for myself from
Amorella. I am not dependent on Amorella to survive life but I am pleased and
satisfied for her having me to survive better, to more freely express my
humanity in creative and fictional ways. I do not know all the ways there are
to be a human being. If she is an extension of my humanity, then she is an
extension of my soul. This is my view.
Aristotle
** **
Satisfactory. Tomorrow we move on to Chapter
Nine. Post. – Amorella
2124 hours. I can re-write the above to make it clearer.
It is as it is, satisfactory. I want you to
take these four imaginary samples and put them in a document titled “The
Existence of Amorella” and the date 25 December 2013.
I can do that.
Place it in your GMG Folder with a green tag.
All for tonight. Post. – Amorella
This has been an interesting assignment. You, Amorella, are real in context to the four short essay statements. - rho
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