Some believe that there is a danger in playing with science and abstracting its metaphors because after a certain amount of stretch, the mataphors loose their reationship to the tight scientific theories that gave rise to them. But others would argue that all science is meaphor, a hypothetical descritpion of how to think of a reality we can never fully know. In seeking to play with the rich images coming out of new science, I share the sentiments of physicist Frank Oppenheimer: "If one has a new way of thinking, why not apply it wherever one's thought leads to? It is certainly entertaining to let oneself do so, but it is also often very illuminating and capable of leading to new and deep insights."