A Different Kind of Feynmann Quote

A poet once said, "The whole universe is in a glass of wine." I don’t think we’ll ever know in what sense he meant that, for the poets don’t write to be understood. But it is true that if you look at a glass of wine closely enough you will see the entire universe.

There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid, the reflections in the glass, and our imagination adds the atoms. It evaporates depending on the wind and weather. The glass is a distillation of the earth's rocks and in its composition, as we’ve seen, the secret of the universe's age, and the evolution of the stars.

What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. And there in wine was found the great generalization: all life is fermentation. Nor can you discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it!

And if our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts - physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and all - remember that nature does not know it! So we should put it all back together and not forget at last, what it’s for. Let it give us one final pleasure more: drink it up and forget about it all!

-RICHARD P. FEYNMANN

NYC

I was in New York for a friends wedding back in October. The wedding was awsome! It was my first Indian wedding. So much music, dancing, food and boose...

I love this city, especially in the fall. The weather was perfect, crisp cool air with a nice balance of the warmth from the sun creeping through the clouds.
For the first time ever, I had a car in NYC. It sucked! I had to worry about parking, traffic, and the freakin' tolls in and out of the city - and it was boring. I missed the subway.

I checked out the Zaha Hadid exhibition at the the Guggenheim - first time at the Gugg, it's a pretty cool museum. The Hadid exhibit was awsome!