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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