Dear friends,
What is it like to be a child? We’ve all been one, but I wonder how many of us truly remember what it feels like. The freedom of thought and expression, the blissful ignorance and inarticulate wisdom of childhood, is our original nature – for we are born with these qualities and “grow” out of them by the interference of pain and culture. Yet through the passage of adolescence into adulthood, eventually, a call rings from inside each of us to remember and revert to some form of this childishness. Children of Gaia Nova is dedicated to curating a community, products and services, which empower us to answer this call.
Those beautiful qualities which children embody coincide, revealing themselves as a limitless curiosity. Children are master observers and mirrors, learning to speak and react by the example of their parents: watching the way the parents use facial muscles to articulate sounds into words and how parents react to every form of stimulus, then mimicking those reactions when similar situations arise. It is curiosity which moves the world forward, as new methods of art and science are developed in order to answer the questions of the keen observer. An exciting example of such prodigious curiosity and masterful observation has recently emerged in the field of physics, which will alter the way humanity perceives and experiences reality forever.
Physicists Agostini, Krausz, and L’Huillier won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2023 for purposely conducting the fastest pulses of light yet observed by humanity. These ultra fast pulses of light are a few billion billionths of a second – known as attoseconds. Being able to observe light which travels at this speed is a momentous event because for the first time, we are enabled to observe the things that travel at such speeds – Electrons – whose movements through materials and changes within an atom are the building blocks of our reality: driving chemical reactions, biological processes, and technological workings. This breakthrough allows us to expand our understanding of the world from microscopic processes to the still smaller processes which drive them. [learn more here].
With Love,
David W. Black
Children of Gaia Nova
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