Week 5 --Symmetry & Sacred Geometry

• Symmetry at a first thought seems to be rather direct and understandable without having to twist the mind too much. We just tend to see that events are balanced on both sides of an occurrence and that systems have balance and that behaviors of particles follow certain rules regardless of location, time or spacial orientation. In reading Stephen hawking's Book, "UNiverse in a Nutshell" I came across some particles that require two complete revolutions for them to look the same. this has to do with their spin. Particles with spin 1 look the same when you spin them 360 degrees around. With a spin of 2, 180 degrees will have the particle looking the same and with a spin of 3 it would take less thsn 180 degrees. This I think we can easily understand. But to try to imagine that for some particles it would take two complete revolutions for it to look the same is definitely a mind bender for me. Particles requiring 720 degrees are said to have spin of 1/2. Then it talks about Supersymmetry which incorporates extra dimensions into space time ,called Grassman dimensions. This theory led to the theories of Supergravity which talks about Fermions and Bosons and the balance of charge of these types of particles.
• CP violation....After reading the info about CPT and understanding that it has to do with radioactive decay, I am sure that I do not understand it fully. C= charge P=parity T=time . Charge Parity Violation means that a particle with a certain charge and spin moving in one direction of time breaks with the theorem of symmetry under certain conditions. Here it is shown that a kaon particle will only decay moving in one direction of time and will not in another direction. The kaon's decay rate changed inder this reversal and hence violated the CPT. The kaon decay rate is accepted as a distinguishing factor in past versus future. This CP violation only seems to happen in dealing with the neutral kaon decay and not with substances like uranium,thorium, radon, and so forth. These substances decay in dependent of time's direction while the neutral kaon decay is dependent upon the direction of time.
• Sacred geometry and physics most definitely have connections. The ancients were very aware of the power of geometry and the power of the shapes of nature. Now, with our technology we are beginning to see the depth of connection the ancients had we are starting to remember and integrate these teachings and practices. One great example is the Golden Mean. From rabbit population growth, to sunflower seed arrangements, to the human body rations, to the spiral. The development of this ratio with regard to fractal, weather systems and many other things along with the connection between mathematical concepts and our world have become to be known as Chaos theory. As we begin to understand more about our universe and the subtle and tiny things that are happening, and as our mental consciousness begins to unfold to allow for 'super-reality' events to be commonplace, and as our science learns more to support these events, we shall move into a new horizon of consciousness substantiated with observation and integrated with experience. It is here that we will begin to understand our interconnectedness and experience our oneness. This is when we will begin to achieve peace on the planet. May we all be so blessed as to experience this within ourselves. Sat Nam.