Yes of course you are right. What threw me was the 'perfume' and the 'roses'. Attar means perfume. And he was known as Attar of the roses.
Reading your post I am sure you are aware that Fitzgerald wrote the rubyiat from his translations of the quatrains. I don't think Fitzgerald translated 'The Parliament of Birds'. This was a bird called C.S. Nott.
Omar was a Mathamatician. Possibly the leading one (in the world) of his day. Unfortunately Maths is constantly being improved upon and does not partake of that 'elixir' of imortality ... Poetry however is immortal. And so Omar is remembered for his poetry.
Your work is very good. I don't know how you produce so much so quickly.
Regarding your 'Fundamental Possibility', an excellent term by the way. Some Physicists believe that the Fundamental Possibility has some substance, if you can excuse the pun.
If you haven't heard it may help you with further prose. It goes like this. If you take an innocent rock sitting on the ground you know that the rock has zero potential, that is, in can fall no further so its stored or potential energy is zero. If you lift the rock and put it on the table you can now calculate its new potential. ie: the distance it would fall and the work that could be done with this. This potential is not zero and yet the rock hasn't changed. Of course, this is obvious as we put the energy in when we lifted the rock to the table.
The theories that I have read about propose a void of absolute nothing. 'Absolute' here is just an adjective, not like Lloyd would refer to it. Nothing, of course would have zero potential. But the proposal is that this original 'Nothing' or 'Void' had non-zero potential.
Non-zero potential in this instance is not exactly like putting the rock on the table.
This non-zero potential void is as empty as empty as nothing can ever be, and yet it has the possibility of being even emptier, but unfortunately, to achieve this you would have to expend energy in order to do so. As you cannot do this without polluting the void ... then the void can scientifically be considered as truly empty as it can ever be.
With this new definition of 'Nothing' it is possible to build a Universe.
This definition is certainly implied in your 'Beyond Local Reality'
You were probably aware of this already ... but just in case you wern't then I again proclaim ... you the Author, me the Translator.
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