Like Von Dänikens of the intellect (a basely unfair comparison, I admit), they assert that there's nothing new under the sun. It is fashionable – or such people as Fritjof Capra in The Tao of Physics and Gary Zukav in The Dancing Wu Li Masters say it is so – to see deep and meaningful significance in similarities not always as convincing as the above.
Or, wait a minute, could the Thomson quote be predicting the action of plate tectonics ("Heaven's command")? Food for thought there. There's some corner of a quantum field that is forever England. " Thus James Thomson, and taking Britain to be a particle-antiparticle pair, the azure main as the quantum field and Heaven as that omnipresent unifying principle we hear so much about these days, it's patently obvious that the formlessness at the roots of the new physics was foreseen by our wise Western ancestors. The eighteenth, also: "When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main. "In the wide womb of uncreated night", it says in Paradise Lost, and what better description could there be of the formless potentiality of the quantum field? Ah, those masters of the seventeenth century knew a thing or two.
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