tadchem wrote:
> On Jun 27, 12:29=EF=BF=BDpm, plutonium.archime...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> > The below concerns a Amazon website discussing the Dalai Lama book of
> > "The Universe in a Single
> > Atom"
> >
> While I doubt the Dalai Lama has read much of your scribblings,
> Archie, I understand that he is very widely read in English
> Literature.
>
> I believe the Dalai Lama was simply paraphrasing (with a little
> hyperbole) the following:
> "To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild
> flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an
> hour." - William Blake
>
> To propose otherwise would appear as a colossal vanity, but I think
> you are not unfamiliar with such.
>
> Tom Davidson
> Richmond, VA
No, it is not paraphrasing with simple hyperbole. The title of the
Dalai Lama's book is the
same idea as the Atom Totality, the same idea as my signature block:
Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
Then the Dalai Lama talks about physics in his book with Big Bang.
The Dalai Lama's book is published 2005, and 15 years after the Atom
Totality theory that was
extensively talked about on the Internet from 1993 to 2005.
--- quoting from Amazon website ---
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and
Spirituality (Hardcover)
by Dalai Lama (Author)
* Hardcover: 224 pages
* Publisher: Broadway (September 13, 2005)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 076792066X
* ISBN-13: 978-0767920667
Editorial Reviews
=46rom Publishers Weekly
=2E....Sometimes the Dalai Lama discovers similarities between the two
fields. For example, Einstein's idea that time is relative dovetails
neatly with Buddhist philosophical understandings of time. Still, His
Holiness does not accept all scientific thinking as holy writ: though
he is intrigued by scientific stories of origins, like the Big Bang
theory, Buddhism holds that the universe is "infinite and
beginningless."
=2E.....Copyright =C2=A9 Reed Business Information, a division of Reed
Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
--- end quoting Amazon website on Dalai Lama's book "Universe in a
Single Atom" ---
I do not know how the Dalai Lama writes and authors his books. Whether
he has a cadre of writers
to which he dictates some ideas and they go out and do the actual
writing or whether the Dalai
Lama sits down and writes the entire book. And I do not know how the
Dalai Lama handles citations
to others. For clearly, the Internet has thousands and thousands of
posts to sci newsgroups talking about
the Universe as a Single Atom under the name Atom Totality, and the
name Archimedes Plutonium
does not appear in the Dalai Lamas book as reference.
Those of us in the sciences know well about citation and references
and when the Dalai Lama titles
his book "Universe in a Single Atom" and proceeds to discuss physics
such as Big Bang, well,
I have been cheated.
Notice the above copyright by Reed Elsevier. Now what if I went ahead
and used that word for word above
and claimed it was mine in some review. Well, I would have failed to
cite proper reference.
I am not going to pursue this against the Dalai Lama for I have
admiration for the Dalai Lama, and feel he
has had a "hard life" yet has lived on the bright side of life and
given positive contributions to the world
especially his desire for a joining of the spiritual to the
scientific. So I am really more happy that the
Dalai Lama titled his book with my Atom Totality theory, it is just
that he could have cited Archimedes
Plutonium somewhere in the book for that idea.
Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom
where dots of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies
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