Nature Day

Finished Act I of Atlas Shrugged last night - with Wyatt's Torch blazing above the hills of Colorado. Dagny's search for the inventor of the engine finished the set-up phase of the story, 320 pages into the book. I suppose that i can now set it aside for a few days and blow through a few other books that i have collected to read. I need to reflect on the state of the world, and Dagny's world and determine whether the prerequisites are materially different or pattern symmetric.

Today, as the time change takes effect and pushes more light into the afternoon hours, my plan is to disengage my focus off of the 'important tasks of work' and visualize a strategy to get to where i wish to be. It has been a long time since i prioritized my personal wish-list, but for today, i think i will. i am ruminating on a banking system for carbon and need to think out the mechanisms of exchange that are the equivalent of organic carbon exchanges of energy during reactive process. There are only so many working models of things in nature that have a significant number of examples to demonstrate fealty and diversity.



Allow me to explain - fealty is that the daffodils are all daffodils - diversity is the number of different displayed characteristics of those daffodils. Ben H. - homeschooled, who is investigating science from the perspective of twelve - will collect one of each type of daffodil on property and likely get over a dozen. Different clusters might look the same, but be genetically different - but that is beyond the scope of our current investigation. My chemistry sense tells me thirty-two is the number of significance - half of 64, so a net resolution of two. Sixteen would give a resolution of four - which would allow a lot more overlap - but perhaps trends can be determined. Nature works on a power grid : two to the power of two, four, six, eight ... Each different order of magnitude adds a level of complexity. The order arose from natural accomodation of process - where insignificant changes cause arbitrary failure and no daffodil appears, thus ending that gene line.

Genes are funny things. I recall years ago seeding red clover onto the lawn area. It didn't take well at first, but many patches of red clover appeared in areas where the seed was set. After a few years it got outcompeted and was less noticible, but it still resides on property in some locations. Now, dr. lenny is not a grass lawn fanatic - in fact the things people called weeds are a lot more facinating than boring trim grass monocultures. Some of the daisies started morphing from a white color to pink color about 5 or 6 years after we had planted the clover. One of Ben's tasks will be to apply the knowledge he accumulates in daffodils to the phenomena that he is studying in daisies. That will demonstrate how much he has learned, without requiring the panic of a formal testing process.