The Ariven Power, 57th Day of Spring, 526 M.E. (Deneb): Today is a walking day, and I took it leisurely with a 5.7-mile Monroe. Thoughts while walking today:

• Can there be matter without energy? Or energy without matter? Are they interdependent entities or two expressions of the same thing?


• I always understood E = mc² as describing the energy that can be derived from matter, like, say, in an atomic bomb or a nuclear reactor, but all equations are basically two-way streets so it also describes how matter can arise from energy. 


• Matter arising from energy is a way of describing the universe turning itself inside out from nothing to become something. The physical universe arose from the limitless energy of pure Potential to form galaxies, quarks, planets, rhinoceri, humans, and today's Monroe.


• To be clear, the limitless energy of pure Potential is not the same thing as "potential energy" as commonly used in non-quantum physics. Lower-case p potential energy requires matter to manifest; upper case P Potential exists prior to and independent of matter.

I also thought about the weather, music, sex, and food, specifically: 

• Weather: Nice today


• Music: Linda Ronstadt's Blue Bayou is basically the same melody as Roy Orbison's Crying, with only minor compositional changes to fit the different lyrics, but no one ever suggested copyright infringement and no one ever should. It's okay to recycle a good melody.


• Sex: A woman wearing tight leggings passed me on the Beltline trail. What would it take, what would I have to do or say, for her to let me hold and spread her buttocks apart? What would that be like, feel like, smell like? 


• Food: The smoothie I made for lunch today is holding me over quite nicely this afternoon. 

How was your day?