Notes - simplification / dewdrop

      You awoke with a headache on the left side; unusual for you to have a headache. It still throbs, though not so much an hour and a half later. The car tire held its air overnight, so you are pleased with this. Carol is still reading the morning paper after reading the local, which you have not read. – Amorella

      0904 hours. There is never much in the local paper. I don’t know but a couple people in Mason Schools today. I don’t know any of the students; too many people in the district these days. I assume there are about ten thousand – though that seems a bit high – 10,865 k-12 students according to their website. Amazing.

      Mid-afternoon on a Saturday. You are waiting for Carol at Kroger’s outside Half Price Books (for the free WiFi) on Mason-Montgomery Road. You had Potbelly sandwiches in the shade at Pine Hill Lakes Park first. – Amorella

      1539 hours. I am still thinking about how it would be if next to Nothing-at-All there were distortions of gravity waves. I try to imagine a visible even though light would not have been created yet.

      From my, the Amorella’s perspective, light need never exist. What do you think?

      1543 hours. I think it would be easier for you to remain consistent. I return to ‘Form’. Over the years I have used the image you drew of yourself but that form is after entering the dimensions in which we, the Living, exist. What comes to mind is I have thought of you as a ghostly sort of form, but . . . anyway, it is difficult to imagine you without a form when obviously, from my perspective, you have a function.

      Humans cannot imagine what they are not (that is, all of physics). Even spiritual aspects (heart and soul) are imagined lightly. So, let’s begin with heart images. See what’s online. – Amorella

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[WB]. Heart 1

[WB]. Heart 2

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      These are two online heart images your sense of William Blake picks up on. Now, look for soul images. – Amorella

      1725 hours. I cannot find any suitable image – the closest would be a female nude photographed in black and white or a classical Greek sculpture of a nude female form. I can only imagine a soul anticipating a physical form embodied with heart and mind. I prefer my soul in a female in form. If I were female I would prefer my soul male in form. I prefer you, Amorella, female. However, what form would you prefer? (I imagine a leaf of grass.)

      A very small drop of natural (unpolluted) water; a dewdrop will do. – Amorella

      1745 hours. This is a surprise. I would not have thought of something so simple yet so extremely important to life as we know it.

      You asked. Something to think about, huh? – Amorella

      1749 hours. I agree. I have learned something, if not about you, Amorella, then about myself.

      Either way, you better realize what it is to be a human being. Post. – Amorella

       Simplification is a key. - rho

      2112 hours. What to be; a dewdrop of natural water. I am taken in by the purity of the concept. Tonight on either ABC or NBC News a reference was made to the discovery of Clathrate Ices in Comet 67P.

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From Wikipedia:

Clathrate hydrates, or gas clathrates, gas hydrates, clathrates, hydrates, etc., are crystalline water-based solids physically resembling ice, in which small non-polar molecules (typically gases) or polar molecules with large hydrophobic moieties are trapped inside "cages" of hydrogen bonded, frozen water molecules. In other words, clathrate hydrates are clathrate compounds in which the host molecule is water and the guest molecule is typically a gas or liquid. Without the support of the trapped molecules, the lattice structure of hydrate clathrates would collapse into conventional ice crystal structure or liquid water.

Selected and edited from Wikipedia

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ScienceNewsline

Space & Planetary

SwRI-led Team Identifies Clathrate Ices in Comet 67P

Published: April 9, 2016.

Released by Southwest Research Institute  

San Antonio -- April 8, 2016 -- For decades, scientists have agreed that comets are mostly water ice, but what kind of ice -- amorphous or crystalline -- is still up for debate. Looking at data obtained by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft in the atmosphere, or coma, around comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, scientists at Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) are seeing evidence of a crystalline form of ice called clathrates.

"The structure and phase of the ice is important because it tells us a lot about how and where the comet may have formed," says Dr. Adrienn Luspay-Kuti, a research scientist in SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division. She is the lead author of a paper titled "The presence of clathrates in comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko" published in the April 8 issue of the journal Science Advances. "If the building blocks of 67P were predominantly crystalline ices and clathrates, then 67P likely agglomerated from chunks of ice closer to the Sun. The protosolar nebula closer to the Sun experienced higher temperatures and more turbulence where crystalline ices could form as the nebula cooled. More pristine amorphous ices likely dominated the colder outskirts of the rotating disk of dust and gas that surrounds the core of a developing solar system."

Amorphous water ice efficiently traps large amounts of volatile compounds, which are released simultaneously upon warming. Water clathrates are crystalline structures containing gas molecules. The volatiles locked inside the water actually create the stable clathrate structure. These structures release gases at characteristic temperatures, dependent on the gas-phase volatile locked inside the clathrate. Luspay-Kuti led an international team of cometary experts that interpreted Rosetta spacecraft data, and found that the observed outgassing pattern indicates the nucleus of 67P contains clathrates.

"Without direct sampling of the nucleus interior, evaluating the composition of the coma provides the best clues about the ice structure and, as a result, the possible origin of cometary nuclei," said Luspay-Kuti. "Thought to closely reflect the composition of the building blocks of our solar system, comets carry important information about the prevalent conditions in the solar nebula before and after planet formation. These small icy bodies help us understand the big picture."

The multi-institute team of cometary scientists analyzed mass spectrometer data from the southern region of 67P from September to October 2014, before equinox. 67P is a Jupiter family comet thought to originate from the Kuiper Belt. Scientists are comparing these new data with data from the flyby of Hartley 2 -- considered cometary kin in family and origin to 67P -- and finding correlations. If these comets formed closer to the Sun than originally thought, these data could help refine solar system formation models.

Selected and edited from -- http://www.sciencenewslineDOTcom/news/2016040918200019.html

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       2225 hours. This is becoming an evening of quiet reflection – imagination and contemplation on the understated simplicity of Amorella being as a thoughtful dewdrop.

       Let the thought be as it is, boy. Watch the thought settle in the quiet. No need for imagination and contemplation. Let the ‘dewdrop imagery’ be. Post. – Amorella

       2241 hours. Tennyson comes to mind.

Flower in the Crannied Wall

Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies,

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower—but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, all in all,

I should know what God and man is.