Marc
Existence preceeds essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
One. My three days of teaching are over, and I am supposedly pretty good. One of my students even told me, while I asked her group if they had any concerns, that she thought I was going to be a good teacher. Aww. Little feller took a shining to me. I'd say this experience has opened my eyes, finally, to what I plan on doing with a good percentage of my life from this point onwards. I've not really experienced what it was like to teach anyone before in a professional, applied setting. Now I have. Bring it on.
Two. This is mainly for Scooter McB, who has a love for learning about crazy phenomenons that exist in universe, but I won't care if you read, too. Feel free. Two days ago in my European intellectual history course (or, the history of philosophy) we finally began to talk about people like Einstein and Stephen Hawking and what not. My mind was continually blown for roughly fourty-five minutes as my professor, this awesome older gentleman that is actually retiring at the end of the semester, talked about Einstein's theory of relativity and how it would affect space travel, travelling faster than the speed of light, infinite weight (ie - weighing more than the universe), and so on. Here's how he explained it:
Theoretically, we can't travel faster than the speed of light. BUT, if we could travel faster than the speed of light, we could possibly bend time and space. So, here's the example: The signing of the Declaration of Independence happened in 1776, and is represented as such with the E equalling Earth:
E (1776)
If a ray of light that recorded that event left earth and travelled for four years, it would end up at a particular point in space, with X equalling that point:
E (1776) ---- four years of travelling at the speed of light ----> X
The point in space, X, would be 1776, but back on Earth (E) it would be 1781:
E (1781) ---- four years of travel ----> X (1776)
So, theoretically, if we could possibly travel faster than the speed of light and leave at the exact same time in 1776, we could end up at that point before that ray of light did, thus being there before 1776, with us being represented as U travelling at, say, twice the speed of light:
E (1781) ---- four years of travel ----> X (1776)
U (1776) ---- two years of travel ----> X (before 1776)
My mind, again, is blown.
Three. My tummy hurts. I have a yummyache. I've been living off my sister's food services card lately, and have been eating like a king. Dorm food, bad. But free dorm food, good.
Four. I will stop here. This has been too long already. Have a nice weekend, okay?
Up Next: Hail to the Thief by Radiohead; Kill the Moonlight by Spoon; and, Don't Give Up On Me by Solomon Burke.
Tomorrow: Reading. Relaxing. Stuff.
Existence preceeds essence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
One. My three days of teaching are over, and I am supposedly pretty good. One of my students even told me, while I asked her group if they had any concerns, that she thought I was going to be a good teacher. Aww. Little feller took a shining to me. I'd say this experience has opened my eyes, finally, to what I plan on doing with a good percentage of my life from this point onwards. I've not really experienced what it was like to teach anyone before in a professional, applied setting. Now I have. Bring it on.
Two. This is mainly for Scooter McB, who has a love for learning about crazy phenomenons that exist in universe, but I won't care if you read, too. Feel free. Two days ago in my European intellectual history course (or, the history of philosophy) we finally began to talk about people like Einstein and Stephen Hawking and what not. My mind was continually blown for roughly fourty-five minutes as my professor, this awesome older gentleman that is actually retiring at the end of the semester, talked about Einstein's theory of relativity and how it would affect space travel, travelling faster than the speed of light, infinite weight (ie - weighing more than the universe), and so on. Here's how he explained it:
Theoretically, we can't travel faster than the speed of light. BUT, if we could travel faster than the speed of light, we could possibly bend time and space. So, here's the example: The signing of the Declaration of Independence happened in 1776, and is represented as such with the E equalling Earth:
E (1776)
If a ray of light that recorded that event left earth and travelled for four years, it would end up at a particular point in space, with X equalling that point:
E (1776) ---- four years of travelling at the speed of light ----> X
The point in space, X, would be 1776, but back on Earth (E) it would be 1781:
E (1781) ---- four years of travel ----> X (1776)
So, theoretically, if we could possibly travel faster than the speed of light and leave at the exact same time in 1776, we could end up at that point before that ray of light did, thus being there before 1776, with us being represented as U travelling at, say, twice the speed of light:
E (1781) ---- four years of travel ----> X (1776)
U (1776) ---- two years of travel ----> X (before 1776)
My mind, again, is blown.
Three. My tummy hurts. I have a yummyache. I've been living off my sister's food services card lately, and have been eating like a king. Dorm food, bad. But free dorm food, good.
Four. I will stop here. This has been too long already. Have a nice weekend, okay?
Up Next: Hail to the Thief by Radiohead; Kill the Moonlight by Spoon; and, Don't Give Up On Me by Solomon Burke.
Tomorrow: Reading. Relaxing. Stuff.
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