--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@...> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the correction -- um, er, I guess, cuz if you're right, then I
> have to scratch my noggin and wonder what expert advice I accepted as true
> before your expert advise came to me. Seems to me that I would be making the
> same error if I merely take your word for it as I did the last time I bumped
> up against some other "authority."
>
> I simply don't know physics enough to tussle this out with ya, but I did just
> now do some reading, and I have been "firmed up" in that at least we can note
> that a photon is "a player" in the sub-atomic world and not some sort of
> GIANT "down there." So, my concept that the human nervous system is very
> sensitive remains valid.
>
> As a writer I love the word "quark," so that was my downfall.....it works
> into a sentence so much easier then "a packet of radiation."
>
> Sigh.....
>
> Edg
>
> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "salyavin808" <fintlewoodlewix@> wrote:
> >
> >
> > A photon isn't a quark it's a packet of an electromagnetic energy
> > and has no mass. It can only be seen when it interferes with other
> > things.
> >
> > You might mean proton which isn't a quark either but made up of
> > them. Quarks cannot be seen, not even by yogis, as they are much smaller
> > than a wavelength of light.
> >
> > It's lucky for us we can't see them as we'd probably go mad,
> > things in the macro world only have to be spun once before you
> > see the same side again. Quarks have to be spun between 2 and 14
> > (if I remember correctly, don't sue me) times before you see the
> > same side again. Stranger than strange the subatomic world is.
> >
> >
> >
> > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Duveyoung <no_reply@> wrote:
> > >
> > > If you can see the period at the end of this sentence, you might be a
> > > yogi.
> > >
> > > Consider that yogis are all about "becoming nothing."
> > >
> > > That is: they want to see nothingness as a sentient reality.
> > >
> > > Okay, remember that for later in this essay, and now consider your human
> > > eyesight. How good is it?
> > >
> > > Wait, don't tell me "20/20 with corrective glasses."
> > >
> > > I'll tell you something even better: you can see not just ink blots at
> > > the end of sentences, not just specks of schmutz, not just molecules,
> > > not just atoms, but EVEN QUARKS!
> > >
> > > You can see a quark.
> > >
> > > A photon of light is a quark, and your eye's retina will register even
> > > one single quark hitting it. (The eye waits for five additional impacts,
> > > just to be sure before it sends a signal to the brain, but that one
> > > photon is COUNTED and known to have hit.)
> > >
> > > Now there. Right there. That's the sensitivity of you.
> > >
> > > No wonder you're so easily upset, eh?
> > >
> > > And, no wonder you're so as easily hair-triggered into love, eh?
> > >
> > > Cuz you're seeing EVERYTHING.
> > >
> > > For the yogi, to see the smallest kind of thing is to, what?, IS TO
> > > ALMOST SEE NOTHING.
> > >
> > > Now it turns out that if you hang around at that level of life, the
> > > nothingness starts to compete for your attention and ultimately grabs
> > > your mind's focus away from the incoming quarks.
> > >
> > > And that pure silence is the real you. That's where to hang the
> > > legitimate hat of identity.
> > >
> > > And so, if you're not a yogi, yeah riiiiiight, you sure are not acting
> > > like a non-yogi. You're wielding amazing acuity not just in the vision
> > > department.
> > >
> > > So, dig it, you are at the center of EVERYTHING and it's all being
> > > processed by your nervous system, and you don't have to do a single
> > > thing -- cuz YOU'RE NOTHING. Nothing gets to lay around while all the
> > > rest "works at life" spontaneously.
> > >
> > > You're a top dog, a yogi of yogis -- cuz you see that it's silly to try
> > > to be a yogi when one is already doing everything a yogi does and you
> > > never even had to enter an ashram or bend your body into a pretzel
> > > shape.
> > >
> > > (This "Might be a yogi" series has been firstly posted at Facebook to a
> > > non-spiritual group.)
> > >
> >
>
