I picked up and dusted off one of my favourite lenses today and loaded it on my previously broken-now fixed camera. I was determined to grab some photos of the cherry tree just behind our community fence. I has been looking quite nice for about a week or so when it first started blooming, but I hadn't had the chance to go photograph it. Actually, I did, have the time, but I would have to take precautions and avoid people to get the photos I wanted, so I wasn't terribly motivated.
Today, being nice and sunny but less warm, was going to be the perfect day to do that. The people that normally congregate near the tree, in blatant disregard for the social distancing directive, were not there. I could get to the tree, snap a few photos from all the angles i want, and be done with it within 3-5 minutes. To my surprise, and disappointment, most of the flowers have now shed! It now just looks like any boring old tree.
I'm always amazed how quickly things change when change comes. That tree had been standing leafless for the best part of four months but when the budding began, it only took a few days to go from skeletal branches to flowers to leaves. It's not a gradual process at all, it's a sharp, parabolic change.
It got me thinking about other things that follow that sinusoid pattern. The way the days get longer and shorter through the year does that. There are periods of slow, steady change when the day to day differences are less than a minute. Then we have those periods around the solstices when the change accelerates. The effect is even more noticeable in countries that utilise daylight savings, like the United Kingdom.
Over the short lifespan of crypto currencies, there has also been a cyclical pattern of sorts, even if not exactly sinusoidal. There are many unnatural factors that introduce much irregularity, but left to nature, I think most things will approach this pattern, even crypto.
The sudden rises and falls are still there though, even with the manipulation and other such artificial inputs. Bitcoin does not pick a high point and low point and gradually rise or fall linearly from one to another. What usually happens is a period of steady fluctuation within a boundary of prices, and then booom!
I've been spending a lot of the free time I have studying electromagnetic waves. As it usually happens, the rabbit hole leads deeper than one usually originally intends to go. The other night I spend about three hours looking at molecules scanned by a Scanning Tunnelling Microscope". It's one of the highest resolution we can decipher physically without having to resort to indirect observations. The images produced by these scans are actual physical representations of the fabric of nature at the atomic level.
At that resolution, it begins to appear that the fabric of nature itself is wavelike. The distinction between matter and energy become blurred to the point that they can often be treated as one and the same. It's no surprise then, that things in nature tend to exhibit wavelike behaviour. Even a circle, or a sphere, both perfectly symmetrical shapes in each of their dimensions, are really closed-circuit sine waves.
Morning, night. The seasons. The circle of life. It seems as though everything that goes around comes around, and in a sinusoidal fashion.
Peace & Love,
Adé