the pull and draw...

On my way in to the Lounge this afternoon, my punk rock happy isle and also the holy ground where I met and came to favor my first follower and considered dear friend Mggn (long appositive alert!), I was listening to a curious report on NPR about some of the futuristic technologies existing in the movie Minority Report that have now become in some senses possible and in others, plausible. Fast-forward passed the first two, blah blah blah, the most curious of these was teleportation. The real world applicability seems a bit spurious to me, but the experiments that have been performed and the concepts they support are pretty fascinating. According to the physicist interviewed there is a process that occurs when you place two electrons extremely close together. They begin to vibrate in unison, but more incredibly, upon separation, an invisible "umbilical cord" type of event presents itself. No matter how far you separate the two electrons, when you change the rate of vibration in one, the other electron is simultaneously affected in an identical manner. In the study of physics, a relationship like this affirms the possibility of "action-at-a-distance" which Einstein completely refuted because it means there is phenomena that can travel faster than the speed of light. Physicists have dubbed this "quantum entanglement". Now how this deals with teleportation is thus: because of the simultaneous transmission of identical information, futurist prognosticate that the information that comprises a molecule, a blade of grass, a car, a blog writer or his lovely and beloved first follower and their essential qualities, their mind and memory structure can be duplicated at some distant space. Again, this seems a bit specious to me, albeit good science fiction as well as impetus to furthering the conceptual field. The Cult must keep an open mind, but I'm not buying this. However, action-at-a-distance fascinates me and has since an astronomy professor in college, Dr. Hanna (licence plate on red Corvette, REDSHIFT, astronomy/physicist joke!), taught me that every particle of matter in the universe is pulling on every other particle of matter in the universe. In my dilettante estimation, this means there is an energetic, gravitation connection between everthing. I'm pulling on you right now. And you're pulling on me. This is the essence of the Cult... of Los Angeles and the World. The pull and draw between us...