ABSTRACT
The natural sciences have been typified by some as machinist, exclusively composed of those imprisoned within the left hemisphere's single vision and Newton's sleep. Mythically, they are personified as Tantalus, who had a divine but hidden parent and a mortal one, and was condemned to always have the fruit he craved be just out of reach, and the water would recede when he tried to drink it. To rebut this machinist myth, this chapter draws from the natural science which machinists claim is their citadel, physics. However in the past – and even that is dubious – when it comes to genius in the sciences, Beer's interpretation of genius was manifest in many physicists of this and the previous century. For Beer, genius was at the other end of the spectrum from single vision: genius enfolding love, love enfolding energy, energy enfolding reason, and each having different qualities and needing entirely new laws, concepts and generalisations from the enfolded vision.
