rainbow
Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt
hag at iafrica.com
Thu May 2 15:03:51 CDT 1996
RokyE writes:
> A real literal "Gravitiy's Rainbow" could be found in Paper Chromography.
> This is a technique for seperating chemical components from a solution. A
> simple example would be a felt tip marker on wet paper, but typicaly, in a
> labrotory, this is acheived using a large vertical tube filled with very fine
> sand. Gravity pulls the various elements down, leaving them seperated in
> distinct layers.
Einstein's Relativity posits that light-'particles' have mass - couldn't we
imagine another 'true' "Gravity's Rainbow" in this sense? Yet how
does this all make gravity "messianic" and / or "extrasensory to
Earth's mindbody"?
hg
hag at iafrica.com
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