ok, trying out an idea i’ve been batting around a little…
our conscious perception of positive qualities (in this case, ‘sweetness’) as relative to more abstract qualities of the subject (‘heavy water’). our perceptions are our perceptions, but there are physical realities that our bodies and the outside world both depend on.
for example, heavy water has 10% more mass for the same number of molecules (or at least, the same volume). that quality that gives rise to other qualities like it’s rate of dissociation, which gives rise to it’s relative acidity, …
in as generally as i can think, it can be said that heavy water has greater structure / less entropy than regular H2O. since time and space are recognized as being the same (thanks physics!), we can say that mass/structure is a greater distance (time or space) from the origin of the universe (‘the big bang’)
i see a similar dynamic in drugs that cross the blood-brain barrier. the relatively sudden increased mass of the central nervous system is a pleasurable experience
simple sugar would seem to buck the trend, but then i start thinking about about tesselation and how space is filled. giving your body lots of little carbohydrates makes it easy to fit them all in you, again allowing for greater density intake. like packing a car full of basketballs vs golf balls. the golf balls leave less empty space.
any of this recognizable to anyone else out there?
