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system that still denies the existence of any structuring renaissance that would make even Leonardo's naked property in the vacuum or how it could play a role in the —_—-Vitruvian Man blush. T-shirts would implore us to "Bring formation of life. Even the smartest and best-educated back the aether!", while religious bumper stickers would people happily accept the contradictory belief that space is proclaim "Get in touch with your inner archetype!" The both curved (Einstein) and an empty void. No one even _ full, intersecting circles of the Vesica Piscis would suddenly thinks to raise the question of how it is that nothingness —_ appear in place of just the fish part on all those stickers on could be curved or, for instance, why our bodies should SUVs. Even Einstein's "everything is relative" dictum grow 10 fingers instead of, say, eight or fourteen. The would sound tired, replaced instead by Pythagoras’ avoidance and outright ridicule of a structured space _ "everything is proportional". remains a point of great disagreement and debate today, not Fashion would explode with "sacred geometry" and only slowing progress in virtually every field of science but — Egyptian styles would make a comeback. The idea that an also hiding a very important truth from society. What is that | archetypal structure in space actually shaped flowers, truth? insects, fish, birds, pets and people would be irresistible The truth is that for the past 350 years a complicity of | and, I think, difficult to suppress once the meme were convenience has existed between the institutions of western _ released. religion and science to avoid any mention of harmonics. Driven by grassroots awareness, hardened scientists This unspoken tradition continues to spill over into society might find common ground with the modern theosophical to this day, fragmenting western culture and ideologically | movement. They might accept life as non-accidental and supporting unsustainable geometry as something sacred. Emironmenslpoies, | “PR idea thatan archetypal fine isitualty of the ancien With the study of harmonics no structure in space actually Hindu Anu—the ultimate siesta tn he | shaped flowers, insects, fish, J rn. mac Grok and oman rations, ve | irds, pets and people would J Weser stains eer mah further away from the idea that be irresistible and, I think, ideals and finally admit (with a the harmonic processes at workin | __ difficult to suppress once FF isne that ine Hay Ghost was but nature. the meme were released. a blueprint for Man in the fabric Without having any coherent of space. And as these ideas took social and cultural model, most root in every belief system, maybe people presume the universe to be a cold, meaningless and _ our off-balance governments would finally consider random environment within which only accident or brute modelling their policies on the coherence demonstrated so force applies. Life itself is seen as a quirky accident ina _ beautifully in the human form. oo hostile world, making it easy for us to agree with people like neo-Darwinist Richard Dawkins that selfishness is the | About the Author: winning strategy for survival. Under this widespread Richard Merrick is a software entrepreneur, digital presumption of a random and violent universe, nihilism has media specialist, interactive producer, music theorist, become the popular consensus. pianist, artist and writer. He was the technology farindav and CLO af Tth Laval a alahal intavactivin The idea that an archetypal structure in space actually shaped flowers, insects, fish, birds, pets and people would be irresistible and, | think, About the Author: Richard Merrick is a software entrepreneur, digital media specialist, interactive producer, music theorist, pianist, artist and writer. He was the technology founder and CEO of 7th Level, a global interactive education and entertainment company of the 1990s, and the founder/CEO of Postfuture, currently one of the top Internet marketing companies. He has designed and produced interactive titles and websites with Howie Mandel, Monty Python and Disney and has assisted such companies as Best Buy and Microsoft with their digital marketing strategies. He holds a BA (magna cum laude) and an MSCS degree from the University of Texas, Dallas. Richard Merrick's book Interference: A Grand Scientific Musical Theory is due for release in early 2009. For more information or to contact Richard Merrick, email richard@InterferenceTheory.com or visit his website http:/vww.InterferenceTheory.com. Towards a new renaissance This said, I do think there is hope in the bright light of quantum physics. While the rest of science continues to be powered by Newtonian machinations, quantum theory quietly proposes a cosmos composed of coherent harmonic waves crystallising into matter inside a polarised cubic space lattice (like a physical hologram). The Schrédinger wavefunction with the "particle in a box" model of quantum mechanics is just another way of describing the harmonic structure of space—no different than the physics of a guitar string. Still, with the long tradition of avoidance, any notion of coherent space has yet to make its way into standard science curricula let alone into other fields of science. But if the study of harmonics were ever allowed back into the educational system, we might expect a cultural 48 ¢ NEXUS difficult to suppress once the meme were released. Continued on page 75 www.nexusmagazine.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2009