Nova is an amazing show. I watched Nova last night. It is on PBS.
Funded by viewers like you.
It was about Einstein. You know eee equals emcee squared guy. They did a really good job of explaining how he came up with it in super layman’s terms. Apparently the speed of light (299 792 458 meters / second) is the universal speed limit. Nothing can go faster than that and if it does then the energy that is being used turns into mass! Well for a long time scientists never thought that the speed of light was constant, and Einstein proved it to be constant and in a direct relationship to mass. Condense and fast forward…
In the 30’s a Lady scientist found out how to split the atom. She bombarded a nucleus dense plutonium atom with even more neutrons and the nucleus got too big for itself and spilt at an amazing rate …in fact the energy that was made by the split was astounding. Just like energy turning to mass in the whole speed of light thing, the splitting of the nucleus was so reactive and quick that it made a whole bunch of energy by turning into two…masses. The energy released, compared to the mass of the nucleus, made what happened a really really really small atomic bomb.
Multiply by a million and you have a whole new socio-political world.
That’s it for that.
And I have adopted two new beliefs not as a result of the above findings only spurred on by them…
1. Darkness does not exist unless there is absence of light. The question begs does light ever NOT exist? No. There is light somewhere all the time. Therefore…Darkness does not exist…only what we perceive to be the non-existence of light.
2. Silence does not exist unless there is an absence of sound. There is always sound happening, something somewhere is moving and causing vibrations. There fore silence does not exist…only what we perceive to be the non-existence of sound.
Could truth follow? Truth does not exist unless there is a 100% absence of untruth. There is always untruth…the retelling of any story is never completely accurate, even your own memory and perception is misleading…therefore truth does not exist; only what we perceive to be the absence of falseness.
2 comments:
I would have to say you twisted that last one... in argument you could accurately concur that untruth does not exist, only what we believe to be falseness. untruth does not exist unless there is 100% absence of truth which there will never be thanks to that omnipresent God of ours, but we all know how you like to stir things up so I will leave it at that.
good thought process, i see the ole phil 210 is kickin in again eh? -mo
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