Sergio Spritzer © 2021
"The scientist examines in the laboratory a fragment of a thing, a tissue or similar. Depending on the technology, he can adjust his equipment to examine up close, from the inside, from the very inside to the molecular, atomic and subatomic plane. If he is examining something from very out of his mind, there is also equipment to examine from far, far and even from other planets and galaxies. He can also examine so much that he has to choose which fragment of the galaxy he wants to examine. And the most curious thing is that he will use knowledge of the universe of very small things to study also very large things: the chemical elements that form matter, the forms of energy and mass.
The scientist's presence and determination creates results very adjusted to the way he researched. Then it will be a huge challenge for him to add his unique work to that of others and form a common sense of mutual understanding. Combining very complexly examined experiences from each other and imagining how it makes sense to both and beyond is a challenge analogous to talking between people that are experiences even more complex than the macro and microcosms studied among scientists. They are static if viewed from afar, but have a profoundly complex dynamic to the point that they cannot be fixed for study when observed very closely.
Observing the nexus between micro and macro realities.
This is the meaning of a movie I saw a long time ago: a young man calmly paddling in a beautiful lake with calm waters in a landscape resembling a Swiss lake. The camera approaches slowly and progressively to the point where a mosquito appears biting his arm without him noticing. The observer enters this scene, shows the blood being sucked into the insect's beak and within it the hemoglobin molecules and within it the atoms and within one of them an atom, the electrons as energy waves revolving around the nucleus and inside the nucleus, the subatomic particles until the observer becomes involved inside one of them and sees only a vague undifferentiated mist. Then for a few moments and the observer quickly returns, retroactively noticing the structures already described, until he detaches himself from the young man's arm and takes the space around the boat, around the lake, in the northern region of the land, around the land, leaving -a backwards and around the solar system rapidly departs towards the middle of the galaxy and even more so the observer finds himself observing a vague mist, very similar to the world beyond the subatomic. It remains for seconds and quickly returns to the initial dimension of the film in which the young man is seen paddling. At that moment the film gains movement and the boat goes on, the boy paddles and life goes on.
This fiction film highlights how our imaginary builds the reality we study and the need to understand our imaginary precedes understanding the universe as a reality given in itself without needing to be thought about and examined. So imagine how understanding imaginary phenomenology can help in dealing with human relationships."
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