Serene salutations,
I was walking in the dark halls of hospital at 3 am relieved that all urgent jobs were completed and placed my pager back into the pockets of the scrubs I was wearing - and my car keys fell out with a resounding clunk onto the floor.
Now I'm not sure if it was my tiredness or that my mind had just gone from super stress to no worries or whether it was something else, but watching the keys fall and hear the noise was fascinating. I know it sounds cliche, is cliche, (newton's apple) but it made an impression on me so outstanding that I vividly recall this otherwise trivial event even a week later.
Why did the keys fall to the ground? Why do they fall everytime? Sure gravity, general relativity, space time curve all sound wonderful. But why?
Richard Feynmann (Nobel prize physics) beautifully describes how knowledge of names may fool us (or others) regarding how much we understand from a phenomenon.
Rumi and others allude to the return to our source "we are from the sea and to the sea shall we return". Do the keys fall because the constituent metal and plastic come from the Earth?
And what about celestial bodies, do they attract by what we understand as gravity because they literally come from one another too (big bang)? And humans (and all things created in pairs) do they attract one another becuase they are created from a single soul ? (using an ill defined term "soul" to understand a better defined concept: gravity)
Quran 39:6 and 7:189 read very similarly "khalaqakum min nafsin wahedatin thumma/wa ja'alla minha zawjaha" which translates "[God] created you from a single soul/person/being then/and created his mate of like nature".
Do objects fall because they were once united with the earth before the big bang? Do we fall in love because the male and female were created once as one?
Are these concepts of single gender soul and a single superdense matter before the big bang part of the platonic world of ideals ?
Notice that the comparison between the Earth and humans (or gravity and love) is not one that halts in the world of metaphysics. Enter metabiology. If the first creation was "Be! and it is!" ["kon fayakoon e.g. Qur'an Surah Yasin] then recreation is 'plant and it shall grow!' [no reference]. All the plants, and all our fruits come from seeds planted within the soil of the ground. All humans (besides the first) are created by the planting of a seed in the womb of a female. The sperm the seed, the womb the Earth. (Hence the term "mother nature" I presume.)
Outrageous (but consistent?) conclusions:
1. Love is to humans, what gravity is to the car keys and the ground.
2. As the human male and female were originally one, when separated they seek to rejoin. As all matter was originally one, now separated they seek to rejoin and this is what we experience in the alterations of night and day and the seasons and my keys falling onto hospital ground, as all result from this celestial longing to return to their origins causing orbits and resulting in "what goes up must come down".
3. the big bang resulted in matter being torn away in space and time, and the spacetime distortions (general relativity) are what we experience as gravity.
The separation of the single-soul platonic ideal of the male and female resulted in mankind being separated in soultime, and these distortions in soultime continuum are what we experience as love.
So might the secret lie in love? (As love is the twin sibling of gravity and the theory of gravity has not been reconciled with other laws of physics.) If you can find the equation for love, maybe then you can propose a "theory of everything" that will unite general relativity (e.g. gravity) with the electroweak (EM + nuclear) forces.
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