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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: thematic emergence and regeneration *
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2010 01:11:11 -0500 (EST)
thematic emergence and regeneration * http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/kaon67.mp3 long piece with treble events against virtual chord (continuing, emergent 'micro-events,' modal clusters) http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/kaon68.mp3 tune w/ string slide accompaniment http://espdisk.com/alansondheim/kaon69.mp3 octaves (1949 di Giorgio classical guitar) * Regeneration A beam of neutral kaons decays in flight so that the short-lived KS disappears, leaving a beam of pure long-lived KL. If this beam is shot into matter, then the K0 and its antiparticle _K0 interact differently with the nuclei. The K0 undergoes quasi-elastic scattering with nucleons, whereas its antiparticle can create hyperons. Due to the different interactions of the two components, quantum coherence between the two particles is lost. The emerging beam then contains different linear superpositions of the K0 and _K0. Such a superposition is a mixture of KL and KS; the KS is regenerated by passing a neutral kaon beam through matter. Regeneration was observed by Oreste Piccioni and his collaborators at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Soon thereafter, Robert Adair and his coworkers reported excess KS regeneration, thus opening a new chapter in this history. [ I'm not thinking of an analogy or model, only of forms emergence and recapitulation, processes whereby phenomenologies of mind might find parallels. ] as above, so below http://www.alansondheim.org/spaced1.png http://www.alansondheim.org/spaced2.png (Fau Ferdinand, Julu Twine)
