I saw this exhibit at the Exploratorium. I was completely stoned out of my mind, but thinking very clearly. I suppose.
It had to do with a magnet. There was some magnetic material under a microscope, and as the magnetic field was increased with a knob, it attracted more material, which darkened the viewfinder of the microscope.
Now as this material darkened the viewfinder, there was something very important happening. There were tiny geometrical shapes, that gradually grew more and more numerous and dense and it was happening in a very organized, crystalline pattern.
I suppose it raises a question about our reason. Do we simply just create an overlay to understand this chaos? "Was the exhibit rigged to pull that trick?", I thought with a dash of paranoia, "or is this simply happening of its own accord with the magnetic field?" Are we simply experiencing what the world already is: perfectly ordered? Or both. Could be both. Reason. Gravity. Laws. Are we crystallizing as a species? As an organism? Seems we have a long way to go.
And I was pretty stoned.
