Are hyperdimensional bees terraforming Saturn?
Disappearing bees. Hexagons. Quantum physics. Yeats. New conspiracy theory?
(Quantum Honeybees): I think the physics of the bees’ bodies, their physiology, must be constructed such that they’re sensitive to quantum fields–that is, the bee perceives these fields through quantum mechanical interactions between the fields and the atoms in the membranes of certain cells. What exactly does it mean to say that the bees interact with quantum fields? A quantum field is a sort of framework within which particles play out their existences.
Is it any coincidence that Yeats’ “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” in which he wishes to “live alone in the bee-loud glade” is in iambic hexameter, a meter which he rarely used? Hmm.
See also Hexagons on Saturn;
and also, “The Bees’ Needs.”
UPDATE: More quantum bee goodness: “A world in which quark smelling bees are misdirected to the heavens to be consumed by hyperdimensional bee eaters is just so much cooler than a world in which pesticides kill them off.”
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