…you don’t need more to explain more!
If you have a quiet weekend in front of you take your time and listen to Murray Gell-Mann. In addition to being a Nobel laureate, he
is an accomplished physicist who’s earned numerous awards, medals and
honorary degrees for his work with subatomic particles, including the groundbreaking theory that the nucleus of an atom comprises 100 or so fundamental building blocks called quarks.
Gell-Mann, a professor emeritus of Caltech, now heads the evolution of human languages program at the Santa Fe Institute, which he cofounded in 1984.

I love clever physicists. They can have such a damn sober perspective on life, earth, the universe and evolution, because their thinking is not bothered by the nature of the human creature. Humans for them are just an integral part of their mathematical calculations without having an extraordinary role. Physicists are so aloof not being entangled with the continuous change of society and creature. They simply can afford to override this system. By searching for the most general rules, they are not troubled by flow and change

The sparkler gives a very temporarily light to the poor creature.
Also angels can get lost

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Since a few weeks BIESTMILCH’s Seven popped up within the small biestmilch world. Those you come here on a regular basis may have noticed. Biestmilch starts to gang up. We founded a company called Biestmilch’s Seven. In the beginning it was just a name, reflecting an idea and a spirit, inspired by Ocean’s Eleven and their morals. Later on it became real, namely, that we turned out to be a group of seven at the end, by chance or by destiny? Future will show.

The »Seven« is very special. There is a lot to say about this figure. The data is overwhelming, have a look on wikipedia, it is unbelievable. I have to give in, the topic is huge.

Only have in mind the seven days of the week, the seven hills of Rome, the seven sages, seven liberal arts, seven against Thebes …

Or:

The Seven Virtues: Chastity, Moderation, Liberality, Charity, Meekness, Zeal, and Humility. The Seven deadly sins, the seven Sacraments in the Roman Catholic Church. In the New Testament in the Gospel of Matthew Jesus says to Peter to forgive seventy times seven times. Seven times Cain will be avenged by God if he is murdered.
In Roman Catholicism, and some reformed traditions, the Blessed Virgin Mary has Seven Joys: The Incarnation, the Visitation, Nativity, the Visit of the Magi, the Finding of Jesus in the Temple of Jerusalem, Resurrection of Christ, and The Assumption of Mary.
In Gospel of Luke Jesus is 77th in a direct line. The Isrealites title circled Jericho  for 7 days and then the wall tumbled down.

Around Christmas it is obvious why we focus on the significance of Seven for our Christian culture, but there is much more, the Seven is also relevant in Islam, in Hinduism, astronomy or mathematics.

We picked the Seven for various reasons. BIESTMILCH’s SEVEN will become more seizable to you over time. You will hear soon more from the Seven, the magic Seven ;-)…

Today is and is still going to be a tough day. Therefore I leave this post without a comment, first and for all for my collaborators in Biestmilch’s Seven. After a several decades working for a living, one reaches what Hugh MacLeod calls the "Post-Dreaming Reality".