Maxwell: In the Field 1

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Seriously great set of posts, Monte. I hope someday 
to "get" Jamie, or at least have some inkling of what Clerk 
Maxwell was up to. A brief passage from your post 
reminded me of a passage from the Tao te Ching:


We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptyness inside
that holds whatever we want.

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the inner space
that makes it livable.

We work with being,
but non-being is what we use.

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From: "Monte Davis" <monte.davis at verizon.net>
 
 In the Field
 
 Where did the Big Bang go? Into waves.
 
 Waves in what?
 
 In the field. The electromagnetic field. Maxwell's field.
 
 What is the field?
 
 It's like the water in ocean waves. It's like the air in sound
 waves. It's like the earth in seismic waves. It's like...
 
 What is the field?
 
 It's the sum of all the waves that ever were and all the waves
 that will ever be.
 
 Oh.
 
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