Friday, July 2, 2010

Every Fact Is A Field?

"In the language of science, every fact is a field," according to Jacob Bronowski, "a crisscross of implications that lead to it and lead from it."

"A particle makes a field, and a field acts on another particle," says Richard Feynman in his Lectures on Physics.

In the language of process, every fact is an occasion of experience, an interweaving of outward circumstance and private intention that momentarily coalesces in a creative outburst.  And we ourselves are neither free agents nor pawns of fate, but characters at the intersection of fait accompli and untold possibility. 

We move together within the field of history, and make history with our movement.