Implications: Strange Attraction and Phantom Action Between Literary Folds

Phantom action refers to a phenomenon in quantum physics whereby distinct particles become entangled such that despite any future empirical space-time between them, they behave as one. Strange attraction refers to a computer-rendered visualization of interconnecting macrocosmic systems in nature, a visualization revealing a deep and complex patterning informing the apparently random chaos of the natural world. Both notions suggest that the heterogeneity of our natural world is simultaneously shadowed by an a priori indivisibility of all heterogeneous things---be they atoms, bodies, texts, et cetera. As such, both notions echo what has long been the concern of numerous philosophers and writers: intuiting and communicating the implications of such simultaneous fragmentation and interconnectivity, of how the one and the many might be inextricably interwoven, in ways ultimately un-traceable through analysis and measurement; and what if anything such implications might mean.