Beach Song

Beach Song

Escape to the Beach
Escape from the abstract into reality
Escape from introversion to extroversion

The warm turquoise water splashes underfoot and rolls off my feet between my toes
The waves, heaved upward offshore by the reef roll in and crash several feet off shore
The wave transcends a fractal with all its pin pricks of foamy turbulence
Millions of molecules aware of each others presence or absence.

Unpredictable in its uniqueness
Never to be repeated, never seen before
Transient and beautiful yet elusive and temporal

The wave reaches farther up the beach, and traces out a smooth continuous line.
Any mathematical approach is only approximate.
Each curve is unique in detail

Never quite the same, never seen before
Transient and mocking yet curiously similar

The reef offshore is dappled with shades of indigo and turquoise
There are jellyfish and humpback whales farther out

Never the same, never seen before
Transient and rare yet familiar and mysterious

If you filmed the breaking waves all day, and tried to apply mathematics
It would be a fools’ game
Because sometimes the waves collude
Sometimes they interfere
The wind changes
The tide changes
The shoreline changes
Some is sand and some is rock
There is always geology

Never seen before, never to be repeated
Transient and immortal yet intuitive as life itself

Like footprints in the sand
Like mist on the lake
Like fog in the valley
Filling in the gaps to achieve a gestalt.

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The perception of gestalt, self hypnosis and the power of suggestion cannot be explained by mathematics

Evocative power, transportation in memory, and imagination are crucial to creativity and the human experience.  without them, there is no hope.

Mathematics education really needs to be rethought, as does physics,   for it is so precise,  and sharp it hurts the brain rather than healing it holistically .  The urge to win an argument and prove you are right is a disease of the human mind,  unless it saves planet earth and all life in it.  Al Gore has talked about the assault on reason,  but without humour, currency and imagination of viable solutions to the crisis,  even without big popular mass media movies with action, drama and character and plot,  life becomes a pale companion.  We need a time travel action adventure movie with stars about how the oceans might die from fertilizers and pollution (CO2 and SO2),  and we need things like Stuart Lichts lithium carbonate catalytic process to produce methane or carbon from  coal plants and methane plants emissions.  We need a what if movie where the actors, big stars, travel in the tardis, Dr. Who Like to the future and see the repercussions of inaction now and convince everyone to act now.  Only in such a way can we reach the mass attention.  A documentary and reasoned argument won't do it, Harper and his oil cronies won't do it,   we need a plot , a story and imagination  like Avatar.  I would pick James Cameron or Oliver Stone to do it.  It needs action , danger, suspense and futures disappearing,  or maybe even alien presences that can also travel in space and time to arrive on the scene,  they are perhaps a billion years more advanced than us now as Marc Garneau has mentioned and also has Paul Hellyer. and as Arthur C. Clarke once said,  any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.   We need Harry Potter and Twilight.  The wall street vampires must be made to care once and for all. True Blood.  The middle east,  on the verge of collapse and war with Europe,  needs technology transfer of safe emission energy technology or else their economy will collapse as oil disappears,  they need a monet fuel too.

copyright 2011, Richard J Belshaw

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