{"id":63741,"date":"2025-02-26T12:40:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=63741"},"modified":"2025-02-26T12:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T11:41:18","slug":"matter-is-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/matter-is-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Matter Is Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions\u2014you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance, and cholericness, fire, helps you overcome resistance. Melancholy, earth, follows like an echo of knowledge. It directs your gaze into the depths and gives you humility\u2014you recognize what you still don&#8217;t know and what new questions await you behind the answers. Maybe this is how quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg felt when he wondered at the end of his book <em>Physics and Beyond<\/em> whether the ancient Greeks\u2014the pre-Socratic natural philosophers (<em>physikoi<\/em>)\u2014actually knew best what atoms (<em>atomoi<\/em>) are. As a matter of fact, \u201cEverything flows!\u201d is Thales&#8217;s world formulation, and \u201cEverything comes from fire!\u201d is Heraclitus&#8217; credo. A hundred years ago, the physicist Ernest Rutherford bombarded gold foil with helium particles and showed that in the classical atomic model, matter consists mainly of empty space. Albert Einstein&#8217;s formula <em>E = mc2<\/em> says: mass is energy\u2014everything is fire! Sixty years ago, a model was developed that was based on what Democritus called the indivisible: the quarks. Three of these basic building blocks form a proton, and surprisingly, according to calculation, they make up only 0.2 percent of the mass of the proton\u2014the remaining 99.8 percent is bonding energy. Here, Thales might nod and say, \u201cEverything is water!\u201d because water connects\u2014water is relationship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Graphics <\/strong>Nina Gautier, 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cognition is a function of temperament. First, you seek in all directions\u2014you need sanguinity, air. Phlegmatism, fluid, gives you perseverance, and cholericness, fire, helps you overcome resistance. Melancholy, earth, follows like an echo of knowledge. It directs your gaze into the depths and gives you humility\u2014you recognize what you still don&#8217;t know and what new questions await you behind the answers. Maybe this is how quantum physicist Werner Heisenberg felt when he wondered at the end of his book Physics [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9159,"featured_media":63124,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796,8825],"tags":[11621,11622,8819],"class_list":["post-63741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","category-natural-sciences","tag-ausgabe-7-2025-en","tag-english-issue-9-2025","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}