December 8, 2007: All That is Solid Melts Into Air
Somehow this weblog got a day ahead of itself. Here in Vancouver it is 5:30 Friday afternoon, December 7th this posting reads December 8th- perhaps that’s because it is Saturday morning in London.
Sometimes a phrase just pops into my head- and it sticks there. I’m not sure why or how it is relevant but “all that is solid melts into air” arrived earlier this week and now I’m trying to make sense of it. The great thing about the internet is that you can now type in a phrase like this and find the source- in this case Marx and Engles:
“All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses his, real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.” (Marx and Engels, 1848).
Sublimation is the process where an element or compound changes from a solid to gas without an intermediate liquid stage. Dye sublimation is used in the printing industry to get images onto fabrics. More to follow…