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The front cover of The Indigenous
Tribesmen of Neverland at left shows a
picture embedded in a picture. In the
inner picture there is an image of
spacetime warping seen from the Point of
View of an object approaching the speed of
light. Space and time must warp, (time
dilates and space contracts) in order to
accommodate the finite speed of light
(radiation propagation). Causality
requires this because it too is a signal
carrying information. The symmetry of
space and time worked out by Einstein had
an implication for the symmetry of matter
and energy, expressed in the famous
equation E = m(c squared). The matter
energy symmetry is explored by the
Standard Model whose symbol the Feynman
Diagram is also in the picture, placed
right at the fold where spacetime is
warping to accommodate the viewer
approaching the speed of light as he falls
into the horopter. Tachyons are field
quanta that never go slower than the speed
of light, they never land. Unlike
'tardyons' which is energy slowed down and
captured, forming normal matter.
The novel The Indigenous Tribesmen of
Neverland speaks to this epistemology as
it inhabits the mindset of my generation,
albeit way in the back of the mind.
Another association of Neverland is what
psychologists have called The Peter Pan
Syndrome, the tendency of hippie men to
hold off on maturing as long as possible.
The novel humorously explores this in the
context of bohemian Austin.
Feynman Diagram
The back cover shows variations around
the heart. Close up view of the surfaces of some lovely blue mophead hydrangeas, represent a space-time manifold, used as a metaphor in the book for kinship community. The net model of the heart suggests the gigantic group diagram for the symmetry cascade at work in the most fundamental processes of the universe. The Rubik cube, a separable space and example of a group algebra is shown at the center of one of these space time manifold flowers. As is an origami cube. The Rubik cube is used as the central image in a post modern story near the end of the book.
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