{Superstrings and Fundamental Forces [continued]}

[Redbook4:150][19871021:1425b]{Superstrings and Fundamental Forces [continued]}[21st October 1987]

19871021:1425

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The co-incidences* are, as they say, uncanny, or at least remarkable. The question is, how do they arise? I can think of at least three possibilities:

(1) Accident

(2) Common cultural influences

(3) Common description of reality.

I think that the first is least likely, and the second most likely: given that mathematics seems to be rooted within the mind of Man (as well as possibly elsewhere), the same pre-occupations and patterns might be expected to turn up again and again. I am sure that it is no accident when the theorists choose names like ‘up’, ‘down’, ‘charm’, ‘strange’, ‘top’/’truth’ and ‘bottom’/’beauty’ for the previously unknown qualities of the Quarks: these labels reflect the, probably** unconscious, pre-occupations of the theorists.

But given that Mathematics does seem to link the inner mind of Man with the outer or actual World, the difference between (2) and (3) may be more apparent than real.***

*[See last previous entry.]

**{/possibly?}

***And how curious that my first placing of Tarot II (the current system) was in 198409 (II.[[Redbook2:346A][19840827:0000]{The Circles}[27th August 1984],]346A [referring to a rough working diagram inserted in the manuscript volume and subsequently inserted in the typescript (because referred to here, but not (yet) posted.], when superstrings first appeared; but the first circle (square cross) appears in 197509 (II.[referring to a speculative rough note and diagram inserted in the manuscript volume but not (yet) included in the typescript or posted,]72), the diagonal cross by 197603 (II.[not found in the ms.]84), and the two (* bi-directional) Circles in 198007 (II.[[Redbook2:165E][19800714:1945]{The Two Circles}[c.14^th July 1980]]165D [now E]).

cf. II.[[Redbook2:159A][19791021:2000a]{Fundamental Forces [continued(2)]}[21st October 1979]]159Aff

(but not II.[[Redbook2:246A-G][c19820815ff]{[Fundamental Forces, Particles, & Spin]}[c.15^th August 1982 ff]]246A[See fn#**** to last previous entry]!)

Vanity, vanity! <871123>

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