pointless Pynchon/Sheldrake

[Madeleine Maudlin]

While Joseph, Interpreter of Dreams, has moved off to metaphysical clubs
I'm still back in the lab trying to catch up with morphic resonance,
torching up violet crystals to melt:

"Crystal Transformations...

"...The crystals of many salts and molecules also exist in alternative
forms, which are called polymorphs rather than allotropes.  For example,
calcium carbonate occurs in rocks as calcite or aragonite.  Aragonite is
more soluble, and occurs as small crystals within basalts, and also in the
shells of mollusks. Calcite is found in sedimentary rocks, such as
limestone, in Iceland spar crystals, and in the shells of bivalves such as
oysters.  Aragonite changes to caclite when heated to 470C.

"Potassium nitrate also exists in two alternative forms similar to calcite
and aragonite.  The aragonite type changes to the calcite type at 127.5C.
 The transition has been studied in detail in single crystals slowly heated
up and then cooled down while being observed continuously by means of light
reflected by the crystals: the polymorphs have different reflection
patterns.  The aragonite-type crystals took several minutes just above the
transition temperature to transform into calcite.  When the calcite
crystals were cooled down again, the original aragonite structure was
restored within a few minutes in surprising detail, with the atoms lined up
in the same way they had been in the original crystal, leading the
investigators to conclude there was a "memory effect"."

Which gets, for me, something back to the idea of collective memory, and
the fact that I can now consciously enter our collective subconscious, and
the whole fact of the pearls being brought up right before the ship of
fools launches into the portal at the center of the earth (brain).

Maybe I should move on now, read Mason&Dixon now, what are those two crazy
cats up to....
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