‽istis reclaims the passing of time (weekending January 23rd
2021)
‽istis reclaims the passing
of time as many people seem to be reflecting on perceptions over this past year:
flashing past in extreme busyness and anxiety, shift after shift after shift
after shift; dragging by in lockdown, without the usual routines, the work, the
activities, the contact.
And ‽istis recalls a radio conversation
this week (Adrian Chiles with Nobel-prize-winning physicist Sir Roger Penrose,
R5Live, UK?) and snatches of the conversation come back: Einstein and e=mc2,
perhaps two hours like a minute, a minute like two hours?; Planck and e=hf; possibly
relativity and constancy? the markers of hours and days and weeks, maybe fuzzy? physics and feelings, pheelings and fysics seeming to blur – melded ways of thinking, feeling and making
sense of the world and our experiences?
So ‽istis wonders whether it might
indeed all be relative: one thing compared with another, one perspective compared
with another, one way of thinking about the world compared with another – but also
the connectedness and relationship of objects, all living things, all people…
And just imagine how different the world could be
if, in theory and practice, we hypothesised, sought, experimented and discovered
new ways to connect and relate: the me and you, the ‘us’ and ‘them’, the ‘we’?
The nobelest (sic) pursuit? Perhaps, possibly, maybe making prize-winners of us
all?
©
Pistis
NB: further reflections and comments linked to this week’s theme and
past blog
entries to be found on Twitter: replies, retweets (which don’t necessarily
indicate approval, sometimes the very opposite!) and ‘likes’: @Pistis_wonders
