Dante, cosmology, and a conversation at Rupert Sheldrake's 80th do
Dante's Divine Comedy
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The Cosmic Coupling of Opposite in the Paradiso
Dante is amazed in the Paradiso when he moves from the realm of space and time on the edge of the known cosmos. In that moment everything seems to go into a kind of reverse or at least perhaps more accurately put is that it enters a kind of coincidence of opposites. Dante is quite bemused by this because a bit like spinning a weight on the end of a string the further away the weight is from the pivot upon which it's turning, the faster the stone will turn. Bernacar listen very kindly to my discussion and made a wonderful observation about dimensionality.
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