It seems that every religion there has ever been is steeped in the notion of duality. It is, after all, equivalent to a "First Thought" ~ rather as the use of red ochre is considered the first clue to intelligence (thus defining the sentient being). To the left of here I've combined elements of the bull's horns of Minos's Knossos with one of the more outrageous and frustratingly meaningless stone sculptures of the Inca / Mayan culture. And while we're on it, why would anyone in the "Bronze Age" pay homage to a near perfect representation of a sine-wave? And what is all this stuff about the acoustics of a ball-court? Strings figure in it all somewhere, I'm convinced...

and they liked a bit of binary too: ~ IOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOIOI

Maybe a bit of String Theory wouldn't go amiss here. There is a general concensus of opinion (many claim to have a GUT feeling about it) that it's quite possible the whole shooting match is made of string anyway. Some people even say it's all wound up in little balls. If you're like me, with very little comprehension of anything not nailed to the floor and tangible, you may find the following version helpful: In many science fiction stories there are lots of universes and realities and we're only a stone's throw away from any of them ~ like they are all a bit overlapping. If you consider the thing to be like little Russian dolls, one nested inside the other, on and on for ever bigger and smaller, depending on which way you're facing, you can also consider vibrating string harmonics in the same way. If 'our' universe is just one harmonic in a much longer string but at the same time is also its own whole string with ever smaller harmonics of its own, each harmonic being yet another complete universe, it somehow takes the pressure off having to consider the notion of 'infinity' at all. It does. Well, I find it does anyway...

Every so often we get yet another story in the media about some 'mad' boffin who's made an 'antigravity' engine in his garden shed. The urban legend decrees that the oil companies hush him up or buy him out and we still don't have antigravity, whichever way the cookie crumbles, otherwise NASA wouldn't still be launching the huge, clumsy and dangerous fireworks that represent the pinnacle of their (admittedly not unsubstantial) achievement. Would they? I mean, Area 51 or not, no cover up neccessary ~ we just ain't cracked it yet... further reading...

~ to be continued... (rebuilding) am I wrong? any ideas? mail me...