Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Yin and Yang Discovered by Science!

Ta-Wan


Yin and Yang have been discovered by Science (kind of).

Did you ever hear about Dark Matter and Dark energy? Most scientists on the subjects would be keen to make clear that the two unknown things were unrelated except by the mysterious "Dark" in their name (the dark in both cases being a demonstrator holding term showing that they are hard to measure and as yet difficult to describe).

Yet two scientists have made a daring addendum to Einstein's theories to unify Dark Energy and Dark Matter to two sides of the same coin. Manifested as pushing and expansion the Dark one is Dark Energy (I suppose Yang) and the other is Dark Matter (Yin I guess?).

This is warming to a Taoist as there is no strict duality in Taoism. The most dual things we have are Yin and Yang but we must always within a sentence or two of mentioning them point out that they are inseparable aspects of the same movement. It is nice to see science taking steps towards its goal of unification.

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