{"id":6043,"date":"2014-01-17T23:55:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T07:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=6043"},"modified":"2014-01-17T15:00:14","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T23:00:14","slug":"cocktail-corner-the-whole-universe-in-a-glass-of-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesliedinaberg.com\/wordpress\/?p=6043","title":{"rendered":"Cocktail Corner: The Whole Universe in a Glass of Wine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A spirited toast to all things alcoholic! by\u00a0Leslie Dinaberg<\/a>\u00a0|<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether or not you’re familiar with Richard P. Feynman<\/a>‘s famous quote, we think you’ll enjoy this\u00a0lovely short video from the PBS series “It’s Okay to Be Smart,”<\/a> which illustrates his lecture on the relationship of wine to the universe.<\/p>\n

\u201cA poet once said, ‘The whole universe is in a glass of wine.’ We will probably never know in what sense he meant it, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the reflection in the glass; and our imagination adds atoms. The glass is a distillation of the earth’s rocks, and in its composition we see the secrets of the universe’s age, and the evolution of stars. What strange array of chemicals are in the wine? How did they come to be? There are the ferments, the enzymes, the substrates, and the products. There in wine is found the great generalization; all life is fermentation. Nobody can discover the chemistry of wine without discovering, as did Louis Pasteur, the cause of much disease. How vivid is the claret, pressing its existence into the consciousness that watches it! If our small minds, for some convenience, divide this glass of wine, this universe, into parts\u2014physics, biology, geology, astronomy, psychology, and so on\u2014remember that nature does not know it! So let us put it all back together, not forgetting ultimately what it is for. Let it give us one more final pleasure; drink it and forget it all!\u201d<\/p>\n

Check it out.<\/p>\n