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Of Supermassive Black Holes and Presumptive Wisdoms
This entry was posted on 4/11/2008 9:46 AM and is filed under uncategorized.
11 April 2008
Of Supermassive Black Holes and Presumptive Wisdoms
Imagine the harshest critic of the quality of American education and add an extra layer of criticism. Now snap back to present reality because we are at a level one hundred times worse - and then some. Case in point: the Discovery Channel's documentary, Supermassive Black Hole.
Briefly, the documentary explains the phenomenon of supermassive black holes (for the purpose of this blog, I will abbreviate this to: SmBH), in contradistinction to black holes (likewise: BH), and their relation to their respective galaxy. Naturally, the documentary begins with the Milky Way, describing it as a giant rotating disk two hundred thousand light years wide with over two hundred billion stars like the sun circling slowly around a center. It is just one in one hundred twenty-five billion galaxies circling in space.
Purportedly, the most puzzling question baffling physicists is: how do clouds of hydrogen gas become galaxies of stars?
One suggested answer is the SmBH. They are one million to one billion times the mass of BHs and can fill an entire solar system. The center of a SmBH is called a "singularity" that to solve mathematically would require a new physics. At the singularity, light can not escape and gravity, space, and time are so distorted that they are at their 'breaking point'. Because they 'swallow' light, SmBHs are 'invisible' and are thus detectible only through the immense gravity hurling stars at over thirty-one thousand miles per hour. As ferocious whirling masses of hot gas just about to fall into a SmBH, quazars are another telltale sign that one is around.
It seems the physicists studying SmBHs made a few (hasty, incorrect) presumptions in going into their research:
1) SmBHs as such, are negative phenomenons.
2) SmBHs signal violent destruction.
3) SmBHs do not exist in every galaxy.
Through research, they have found evidence to counter some of their presumptions. I would venture a step further to suggest:
1) SmBHs are very positive evidences of creation.
a) The umbilicus is to its creation what the SmBH is to its galaxy
b) From the depths of assumed emptiness is an explosion of pregnant potentiality
c) To counter Lear's rant - ex nihilo, nihil fit (from nothing, nothing comes) - SmBHs are ocular proof of the very opposite. From nothing, everything comes.
2) SmBHs signal absolute creation - creation from explosion.
3) SmBHs must exist in every galaxy, though in various stages. And this has been proven true, thus far:
a) NGC1068 has a very active SmBH
b) Andromeda has an inactive SmBH
c) The Milky Way is similar to Andromeda with an inactive SmBH
The physicists have also learned the following:
1) The size of a SmBH is directly proportional to the size of its galaxy.
2) The mass of a SmBH is directly proportional to the speed of its sigma.
Interesting note on sigma: it is assumed by physicists that it is unaffected by the gravity of its SmBH. However, upon closer inspection, they found a direct correlation between the mass of the SmBH and the speed of its sigma. I wonder when they will make a causal correlation, or if they will continue to identify the two as mutually exclusive.
On the whole, it seems they are 'batting zero' and declining.
Stubborn insistence on linear thinking with complete disregard to - at least the possibility of - interconnections and non-linear reasoning and effects is perhaps one of the greatest fallacies of Western thought. As with the SmBH research, the singularity, quazar, sigma, galaxy, and galaxial components are all treated as distinct and separate entities without concrete interconnections to each other.
As an alternative to the findings and theories bandied so far, I suggest the following:
1) Conceptually, if scientists can draw parallels between the galaxy and the human body, it might help in strengthening and guiding them in their research.
a) The SmBH is the umbilicus as well as the self-regulating mechanism within cells to activate cellular apoptosis.
b) The singularity is the pluripotent and multipotent blastocyst.
b) The sigma is the epidermis.
c) The stars are the cells.
d) The planets are the primary organs.
e) The moons are the supporting organs.
f) The quazar is fuel for the digestive organs, affecting the stage of activity.
2) Of course it baffles me how the very fact that SmBHs have been written about, studied, and captured in philosophy thousands of years ago could have ever escaped the collective memory. Ahem, Taoism.
a) The "T&C" symbol - darkness and light with a sphere of darkness in light and of light in darkness - is the force of the SmBH and its singularity.
b) Dyads and duality, opposing forces, the polarity of protons and electrons affecting the stars swirling in opposite directions around its SmBH - this is the Tao, and the Tao is so much more...
Postmodernists and Poststructuralists are so quick to do away with dualities. However persistent and convincing they may be in an ever-changing e-mediated world, the basic duality of oppposite forces will never diminish. Alas, the oldest philosphies of the East - the paragon of the metaphysical - are being rediscovered and proven true in the most scientific of methodologies and through the most non-metaphysical of minds. In other words, through science and physics, we ultimately return to metaphysics. Through positive you are lead to negative and then back to positive. In a word - cyclical - interconnection - interrelation - the linear follows the path that seems one-directional from a worm's eye view. Adopt a bird's eye view and realize the line has never left a circle.
The Eastern civilization is the oldest - and dare say, the wisest - despite the chutzpah and fanfaronade from the West. Just how long will it take before it is acknowledged as such, rather than as 'mysticism', 'ancient' and therefore, 'obsolete'? In all actuality, it is the West that has long been obsolete - 'off the mark' - and rather slow-witted to keep up the pace of the Eastern doxa and wisdoms...
Even if we replace the opposition between East and West with the encroaching universality of globalization today, disregard of our past, our ancients, our history...this is something that can not be replaced. So many lessons can be learned, and wisdom gained from our history - East, West, Ancient, Classic, Pre-Socratic - and yet, too often it is all overlooked.
Sometimes a clear step forward can only be gained through the prescience of a backwards glance...
potentiality
hyphenation
in readiness, in motion, in realization...
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