I'm no physicist but I understand the basic idea behind Schrodingers cat and the relativity of time (both sci-fi and the real world's).
Now before I go on I suppose it would be expected that I write about 2010. About New Year hype and celebration. The year just started and we'll have 364 days to discuss the mysterious and inevitable crawl of time.
There is a principle that interests me regarding the relativity of time that requires no light-speed space ships or trance-inducing machines. There is no concern regarding me losing bone density in space or worrying about the one toilet breaking down. That's a true NASA catastrophe: the only bathroom up there and it breaks down you can't really try to sneak in to the local McDonald's.
The farther we get away from civilized society time gains a peculiarly slow drawl. You've experienced it when you go to the beach or out in the country? You might read, hike, swim, eat lunch, wonder about dinner and text with all your friends fearing you'll be left out because you're "out in the boonies" and all before 4pm.
Time in the city is never enough. The Upton's asphalt jungle eats away at time and space leaving me with a feeling that the 24 hour day is reduced to something more like 16 or 18 hours (numbers arbitrarily chosen after careful analysis).
So the goal this year is to simulate the forest inside the city. Not a park - a cheap substitute - but the environment.
And I have 11 other resolutions.
I like your resolution!
ReplyDeleteOf course, I also do not believe in linear time, though I understand its power for certain types of organizing. So I deal with it when I must.
Here is a quote you might like:
"The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity and I would not own one except I miss appointments without it."
— Brian Andreas (Story People)