Mark James Wooding
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December 27, 2021
"Herbert Marshall", by Edgar Lee Masters

I put together a compilation of public domain poetry, and called it The Magical World of Poetry. It can be read online for free at http://magicalworldofpoetry.com. A print edition can be purchased from Barnes and Noble: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/magical-world-of-poetry-mark-james-wooding/1100588181?ean=9781078777377

Edgar Lee Masters wrote a group of prose poems called The Spoon River Anthology. It was a set of epitaphs from a fictional graveyard, and each epitaph told something about the person buried beneath it.

I included four of those epitaphs in The Magical World of Poetry. "Herbert Marshall" had one line in it that I found very significant: "That one can be happy only where two are". If one half of a couple is not happy, the other one can't really be happy either.

Herbert Marshall

by

Edgar Lee Masters

All your sorrow, Louise, and hatred of me
Sprang from your delusion that it was wantonness
Of spirit and contempt of your soul's rights
Which made me turn to Annabelle and forsake you.
You really grew to hate me for love of me,
Because I was your soul's happiness,
Formed and tempered
To solve your life for you, and would not.
But you were my misery.
If you had been
My happiness would I not have clung to you?
This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.

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McGuffey's Readers, Number 4

The main task for today is to begin revising McGuffey's Fourth Eclectic Reader. It may take a couple of weeks, possibly more. I still have to work at Publix, and next week I start a new job in the memory care unit of a rehab/nursing home facility, and I'll also be working at Publix at least one night.

After that I'll take a look at the double-slit experiment, and see if there is an interpretation that is consistent with my theory of wave physics.

Also, I came across the attached meme, which I had created two or three years (or so) ago. I thought I'd include it because I still like it.

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September 20, 2024
Implications of Wave Physics

I recently proposed a theory of matter and energy called Wave Physics. In this theory, the only things in the universe are energy and the universal membrane, which is the medium through which all energy is transfered and stored.

Tonight I realized that according to this theory, everyone and everything in the universe are connected to each other at all times. Things that would be impossible according to the standard model of particle physics, are very possible in the universe of wave physics. Psychic transmissions and the power of prayer are physically possible and make sense if the universe works in any way like the theory I proposed.

If you've ever heard the phone ring and felt sure who it was before answering it, and were proven correct, this makes sense in wave physics, but not with particle physics. If you've ever looked intently at someone, and had that person quickly turn and look directly at you (I have), that phenomenon makes sense if all of us are parts of the same vast, ...

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Unified theory of matter and energy

I was only scheduled to work three days this week, so I decided to work on a theory I'd been playing around with for fun over the last few years. I'd never been a big fan of the standard model of particle physics, so a few years ago, just for fun, I thought about exploring some alternate ideas, with zero training and zero experiments.

This week I wrapped up a few loose ends, and posted it to a community I created called Wave Physics. Originally I had called it Alternative Physics, but I changed my mind, so the link still has alternativephysics in it, but the community name is Wave Physics. I'd love for people to pay $5.00 a month to tell me how wrong I am.

https://alternativephysics.locals.com/

I also posted it on my personal website:

https://markwooding.com/physics/index.html

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