More Gibberish about Waves

On the smallest (perhaps biggest, it's hard to quantify) scale - that of Oxides and Neutrinos (not the UK garage sensation, two of the greatest unsung lynchpins of British music.  Yes you can get a rewind, boys, always) and Electrons and all those other things which we could barely bring ourselves to muster a tear for at school - waves are everything.  On this level, the Everythingness of the Universe is merely the transfer of wave after wave after wave after wave.  There is something quite glorious about this, I think.  The Universe is just a big fat Newton's cradle, I guess.  Or perhaps a domino thing:

But waves are also the carrier pigeons of change.  Look at the incredible and quite literal wave of change that is happening in the Arabic world right now.  Waves have become such an integral part of the way that we discuss change and newness that it has become somewhat of a tired cliché, but it is perhaps interesting to note that what is happening in all those amazing countries is just the same as when you create your own tidal wave in the bath - next time you have a bath make a mental note that you have become, Gilbert & George stylee, a brief living incarnation of social change.  But, like, with less genocide and camels and shit.

It will be interesting to see how far these particular waves spread out, and how much damage they do when they roll back, full of the bubbles of aftermath.  If we remember that when waves happen, the water moves relatively little, then it would be warming to think that these waves will not displace the peoples (see, I'm doing a people as water comparison now.  I didn't expect that this was where I was going with this) too much.

I will move on to talk about things I have more than a vague mimsy notion about next, I promise.