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Resilient Complexity versus Exposure to Entropy

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All systems fail, all organized interactions are vulnerable to entropy, ashes to ashes, dust to dust. And at best, we are but stardust, a beautiful yet haunting explanation of our origins. Infused with light. Doomed to shadow. Whatever your spiritual beliefs, in the mortal physical realm, entropy is always interfering. The intellect often uses convenient conceptualizations to feel it is better understood or more secure, more real and lasting, than it is.

Remember: the only constant is change, so to oversimplify is to willfully strip ourselves of needed understanding, the power of intellect that can do the best work against entropy. To paint in broad strokes an entire universe of experience to exist only in dualities of black and white, up and down, matter and void, is to confuse simplicity with clarity, at our peril. While the best explanation is usually the simplest one, the truth is almost always more complex than we can perceive.

So, we are left to navigate a universe of traumas and disappointments we cannot just dismiss as signs of the wrong thing happening or the other side gaining temporary control over our otherwise pure and decent environs. Darkness and light are lies in that they are not so diametrically opposed as they pretend; there are better options for understanding what they mean. As R. Buckminster Fuller has written: “We have relationships, not space”.

Relativity posits that light and other cosmic forces or expressions of energy and mass are not constants, but exist in a relational continuum. Moving at the same speed as an object makes it appear not to move at all, as with the Earth that carries us through its orbit around the Sun, and our Sun’s orbit around the galaxy’s deep center. We also experience this when we are traveling inside an automobile or an airplane. Light and dark are both wave dynamics relative to perception, frequency, local electro-magnetic activity, even the refractive capabilities of gravity, distance and time.

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Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity, the Original Paper (1905)

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Albert Einstein has earned over the course of the last 103 years the reputation as the most revolutionary and visionary scientist in modern history, perhaps of all time. His discoveries fundamentally changed what science could claim as knowledge about the physical laws of the universe, and the revelations that stem from his work have affected —in some way or another— virtually every aspect of life in the human world. In the spirit of his ability to go beyond the known scientific tradition, we offer his complete original treatise on Special Relativity:

Relativity as a scientific concept was not invented by Einstein, but by Galileo Galilei, who posited that both motion and rest are relative to ambient factors, and that absolute uniformity cannot exist in the question of motion. Einstein’s special relativity demonstrates that this thinking applies to all questions of motion and rest, to space and time, and to electrodynamics. In so doing, it disproves Newton’s conception of space and time as absolute realities measurable by fixed parameters, showing that they are in fact perceptive realities, dependent on the motion of the perceptive body relative to the perceived point across a continuous fabric of space-time.

HotSpring invites readers not only to dig into the language and the reasoning of Einstein’s work, but to look for correlations to questions facing human society today, and to seek, propose and debate applications of ideas derived from this work. We hope to transcend the limits of computing speed and computing platform vulnerabilities, as well as to approach the zero-combustion paradigm and other tools that will help in the building of a renewable, sustainable economy.