[mkirkpatrick]

While taking a well earned break, from posting posts, and earning a living as well, I sat down and picked up a pomegranate to eat. It was then that a thought struck me. What a wonderful piece of packaging this is? What could we learn from this? After eating the fruit, there seems to be more left than before! I can only think whether you call it nature or whatever, there is great intelligence afoot here. If I could properly understand this piece of fruit, I would understand life itself? And that burns with a dark flame!

A piece of fruit, chock full of particles and pips, what on earth could one learn from this humble lump of matter? Well, there was a young man many, many moons ago, who as the story goes, sat under a tree, picked up a leaf, studied the leaf and apparently became enlightened, and today has many followers. All that from a single leaf. What on earth then could you discover from a whole pomegranate!?

The only Boson I ever met personally was a tugboat captain, who seemed a very odd chap indeed. As for Fermions, I have not come across any yet, but I will keep a sharp look for any! What have we ever done that nature has not already been there before us? Certainly, we are rank amateurs in the packaging business.

Just look into a beehive, and see the wonder there. You just might be able to squeeze a boson or two between the hexagons. Who knows? Chemical warfare just cast an eye into amateurs’ world, or insects. They were fighting it out long before we came along. We know little compared to nature. Maybe we can find enlightenment and the answer to the TOE. By all studying the pomegranate! Who knows?

To look at nature, whether it be that wonderful fruit the pomegranate, or at the
way a beehive is arranged, or the air conditioning that termites use for their homes. If I ask myself honestly, what is this I see? I can only answer Intelligence that is far superior to mine. If I cannot wonder at this beauty, then I am dead.

Regards, Michael.