Fwd: V-2nd - 2: clocks and mirrors

[János Székely]

See the issue of the torsion pendulum at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s_experiment
The two forces at play here are gravity and centrifugal force. (The
two demons? Centrifugal force standing for entropy?) Note also that
Eötvös's "weak equivalence principle" (concerning, yes, gravitation
and trajectory) was one of the bases or inspirations for Einstein
theory of general relativity. Here the two forces as well as the two
worlds "cancel each other out,"
which is a man-made, that's counter-entropic situation, which unites
the animate and the inanimate principles. That may be why the
otherwise cold metal parts "gleam warm and gay". Here Rachel's dilemma
seems to be founded in the basic morality of counter-entropy in
general on the one hand, and the basic immorality of cosmetic surgery,
which is also a counter-entropic act, on the other. Just as Shoenmaker
is not evil but rather blatantly ambivalent in his morality.

János