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Too Simple to Understand [When I joined the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton] I did this in the hope that by rubbing elbows with those great atomic physicists and mathematicians I would learn something about living matters. But as soon as I revealed that in any living system there are more than two electrons, the physicists would not speak to me. With all their computers they could not say what the third electron might do. The remarkable thing is that it knows exactly what to do. So that little electron knows something that all the wise men of Princeton don't, and this can only be something very simple.
– A Szent-Gyorgyi (1964) "Teaching and the Expanding Knowledge". |
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Busting Rocks is a mystery about that something very simple.
____________________________________________________________________________ The Crucible of Words |
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"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master – that's all."
– Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass One Must Begin This narrative starts in a tribe. Its members had no idea of a viable alternative – or much else for that matter.Belonging was a privilege; departure to live on one's own, inconceivable. A static society was good. A change in culture was bad. Good versus bad.There was no morality, and thus no notion of evil. Life was pretty simple. But. Just as one must crawl before one can toddle, and toddle before one can walk, so must one stumble toward clear communication – of ever broadening ideas.All people must adjust to their environment, but in one place, they were on the verge of adapting better than they could have even imagined. This is a long story. This is a detailed story. This is a story about that place: a place in the Neolithic Era, a place in Western Eurasia,a place called Stoningsthwaighte.
And it all began with words. |
| The Crucible of Words is the beginning. |
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For the backdrop of this beginning, please go to the sister site: About. It consists of rules for an enjoyable, engaging, and enlightening role playing game (RPG) to experience the environment, insecurities, and needs of the characters in my chronicle. – hej |
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| Contributors | ||
| Date | Name | Contribution |
| 2016.06.13 | Peter J. Philipp | Guidance and additional programming. |
| Daniel Hartmeier created the foundational code for this content management system. It is a distant descendant of his original backend. |
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