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The Metaphysics of Playing Cards (answer p.2)

And what of the hierarchy of the cards within the suit? The lowly numbers, from two to ten, represent the meek, they who shall inherit the earth. They are the rank and file, the petty hierarchies of the commoners. Above these are the tiers of the royalty, as with all societies, they overrule the masses. The deep implication of the cards, and a lesson for us all, is in the nature of the ace. Where the joker is the creation of God, the ace is the moral absolute which must govern the governors. It is that which provides the framework for a just rule. In normal play, the ace has a value over that of the King, symbolising the just and righteous rule which is possible in a well-adjusted society. However, often the ace has a value of one- the lowliest of the low. In times when this occurs in the world, and the moral good is subjugated to the will of the ruler, becoming nothing more than the lowest of pawns, we see the terrible cataclysms and upheavals so brutally epitomised by Stalinist and Nazi society. There is, here, a valuable lesson for us all again.

This all makes sense, I hear you say, but what of my new mathematics, what of the scientific revolution of recent years to which I have alluded?

Well, the extensions of these points within the framework of 20th century scientific advances simply add to our realisation of the universal nature of these truths.

The cycle of life begetting life is more than simply the death of the individual to feed his children. Gaia herself extends far beyond this tiny jewel of blue upon which we live, to encomapss the whole unimaginable mass of creation. We learn from the great leaps in astro-physics that only the lightest elements existed in the primordial universe once it had cooled sufficiently to allow matter to condense from pure energy. We learn that the carbon from which we are made, together with the other complex heavy elemants of which our world is constructed, and which make life possible, were fused from these lighter elements in the hearts of great stars. It is only upon the death of these stars that our lives become a possibility. The matter from the core of giant celestial bodies, ejected at enormous velocities through the cosmos in the explosion of a supernova, eventually condensed into the planet Earth and, indeed, yourself. We are all, quite literally, made from stardust. We are all children not just of our mothers, or even our Earth, but truly children of the cosmos.

The great cycle of life and death can surely be no more dramatic than this? For who could visualise the timescales on which a great star lives and dies? Who can truly accept that something as beautiful, as magnificent, as powerful and vast and seemingly eternal as a star itself should have to die, to explode with unimaginable ferocity, to plant the seeds of his own existence? When we realise the true magnitude of the violence of our conception, we must bring this knowledge to bear on the small and trifling concerns which invade our minds and blur the clarity of our perception of the nature of things.

And then the greatest mystery of them all- from whence did all this matter and energy and unimaginable power and violence which has somehow ended with the existence of my mind spring forth? How did this remarkable sequence of events which has taken billions of years to unfold begin?

Here we still have to fall back on theory, but there are promising advances in quantum mechanics which seem to provide a window into the underlying nature of reality. The theory of Super Strings, unimaginably small quantum objects which vibrate and exist in many dimensions, as the basic units of reality, shows us that we do indeed, as you suggest, require a new mathematics. Recent research suggests, however, that we can explain the nature of the physical world by randomly appearing non-existent points (allowed for by quantum mechanics) forming interlinking conections and providing a framework for the existence of material space. These, when modelled, expand exponentially, explaining the expansion of the universe, and also allow for otherwise inexplicable phenomena such as quantum entanglement by having connections which exist below the level of reality which we can perceive.

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