Somebody Nominate Me!
I discovered something that I’m sure will prove be a very important idea in the study of space and time.
I am very fortunate to live and go to school near the train in Chicago. It’s a six minute walk from my house to the train, and about five minutes to the school. However when the temperature drops to certain levels - let’s take the current temperature of EIGHT DEGREES at 4pm - time also slows down. It’s amazing! A five minute walk actually takes, oh, what I’d describe as, decades. Yeah, that’s about right. So the slowing of atomic particles in matter actually significantly slows time itself. And we thought that space and time were relative… Silly Albert, they are one big fat evil inseperable popsicle.
“Somebody gimme a Nobel Prize!! Everybody say ‘HO!’”
And on a theological note: Dante was wrong. See, he was from Italy, and when he wrote the Divine Comedy he had to create some weak metaphor based on his annoyed discomfort while writing on balmy Italian days in his attic. So he gives the world the childish Inferno. Open letter to Dante Alighieri:
Dear Dante,
Hell is cold.
Warmly,
D.C.
T.C. wrote:
Silly Dayton, what you’re describing IS relativity.
Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 9:04 am | Permalink
Dayton Castleman wrote:
Ahhhh… Thanks for tweaking that a hair for me T.C. I guess you’ll have to be added to the nomination, and you should probably write the paper. Now that the cat’s out of the bag, I’ll admit that I know nothing of physics, or space, or time, but I would like to point out that I managed to formulate (albeit unfortunately misidentify) a theory of relativity, purely experientially, and with no formal education on the subject. I still think someone should nominate me for a Nobel Prize, only make it the one for scientific intuition or peace or whatever.
Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 9:43 am | Permalink
Rob wrote:
“It is ironic that this portion of Dante’s Divine Comedy is titled Inferno, because it is in essence a misnomer. The lowest levels of Hell are actually extremely cold, not hot, as an ‘inferno’ would suggest. However, the title ‘inferno’ is significant because of the pain and suffering in its connotation. Much of Hell is actually extremely hot, and many of the punishments do involve heat or fire.”
http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=767673
Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 12:59 pm | Permalink
Dayton Castleman wrote:
That I did know. I guess I like to imagine a worldwide, generally illiterate audience for my blog, when in actuality the handful that read it are pretty sharp and well read. I’m surprised T.C. didn’t call my bluff, because he’s read pretty much everything. I thought that my mom or dad might say something as well, but they check this thing about once a month…
Posted on 03-Feb-07 at 3:36 pm | Permalink