the fish temporarily explores temporal avenues again

**If you look at nothing else, click on "linear direction" at the end of this post.**

So, despite a pounding headache (which may be due to the temporal shifts in my life, like morning) I have been experiencing some temporal aspects this morning. (Well, yesterday morning -- see one more temporal shift in Section A.)

Today (yesterday and tomorrow), the fish speaks to me of time. But filtered through this pain in my head, the fish's voice comes out garbled and out of order. It even is possible that there are no connections, though I doubt it. I will let you do the rest...

1) I always want to find some interesting and colorful pictures when exploring quantum theory, but invariably there are few colors and a lot of words. Though sometimes there are pictures of stern looking people doing serious things.

2) This also happens with superstring theory (sometimes referred to the theory of quantum gravity - ah so there is a connection, at least here). You'd think that a theory which begins with guitars and ends with, oh everything else, would run into a few more nifty pictures along the way. Though admittedly, the superstring people seem more interesting. By the way if you want to learn more about string theory, click here. (Note: this site is good for everyone from string-beginners to physics-junkies.)

3)I like Einstein. Though he looks sad here. Maybe he's sad because he missed the age of computers. What do you think he could have done with all the knowledge on the internet?

17) For a delightful book about Einstein theories of time, I highly recommend Einstein's Dreams, by Alan Lightman. It's a fiction book of essentially short stories based on Einstein's theories of how time works.

23)How does time work?

What is time?

22AB&C) According to this article about time travel and theories of time (ah, one more connection), "The existence of new scientific models questioned our ability to understand reality and our comprehension of understanding reality." I'm not too sure about the rest of the article but if I don't comprehend my understanding, do I understand?

13.5) What is this sneaky thing called reality?

This is Danny Elfman.

10N) I believe time travel is possible. Most people do. They just think we can only travel forward. This assumes that time only moves in one, linear direction and that memory is not traveling through time.

1123) That's all for now. Have Fun!

the fish temporarily explores temporal avenues

Move a few paces to the future, my friends.

The place was full of cops. I saw this at a glance.

hunter s thompson died on sunday. self-inflicted gunshot wound. he probably saw the pats winning a fourth superbowl as the sign of some horrible and most unchristian doomsday and decided to check out before that shit went down. either way, long live gonzo.



buy the ticket. take the ride. these illi's are by ralph steadman.

The Fish Speaks in Mysterious Ways

For some reason the voice of the fish has been echoing through my head today connecting two experienced fish-followers. The following is the result of that echo:

Monty Python may not be the originators of the fish, but they definitely do it well... they fill me with warm goo. If you don't know who or what I am talking about then you should definitely find the fish:

STRANGE MAN:
I wonder where that fish has gone.
STRANGE WOMAN:
You did love it so. You looked after it like a son.
STRANGE MAN:
And it went wherever I did go.


On to the other, and perhaps stranger of the two experienced fish-followers:

Maurits Cornelis Escher, better known as M.C. Escher, followed his own fish from June of 1898 until his death in March of 1972. My favorite Escher is called Reptiles, and through they are not fish, they often eat fish, so they too, are experienced fish-followers. Escher is probably best known for his impossible structures, though his work in geometric symmetry is really fish-quality:

"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail. "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's treading on my tail. See how eagerly the lobsters and the turtles all advance! They are waiting on the shingle--will you come and join the dance?"
-from Chapter 10 of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

(Ok, maybe three...)

Essential Symmetry

I was reflecting on the basic symmetry of life, on how things always come back around and how things always repeat themselves, and I felt the weight of the repetitions bearing down upon my fragile mortal shell. Then I recalled the fractal images I have seen and remembered that repetitions can be beautiful as well. The lightness of the realization that I too am a repetition, that I belong to something large and lovely in its symmetry, lifted the weight from my back.

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero." -Fight Club

I was born. Before me there was only a void where I would exist. Before me there was a space in the world into which I was born. And when I die I will leave a space where I was, a space in the minds of the people I have known and in the minds of people who have known me. All I can hope for in my life is that I fill the space of me; that I fill my space with life.

The world is so marvelous from up here, so peaceful, so wonderful, and so fragile.

Life is not a rehearsal.

~ Ilan Ramon ~

Israeli Astronaut lost on the Columbia Space Shuttle

the fish welcomes the parrot's voice

Einstein, the amazing talking parrot. I mean I know that parrots can talk, but this is just ridiculously cool.

Einstein is a rockstar.

The rarity of rumination

The ability to read one's own mind is a tremendous skill to have...

So, my dear jenn see says that i should post my thoughts here so here goes...

1) Boring lives? People live boring lives by choice, well choice and laziness, which is sort of a choice. Every time I leave my house, an adventure awaits.
2) With technology, there are all sorts of ways to leave my house, without ever leaving my house.
3) Chaos happens whether we like it or not. Entropy, you know, the second law of thermal dynamics. So why fight it?
4) I would not make a religion of chaos. Better, a religion of order. But really, why worship either?
5) People have two choices in life: they either have to accept that everything happens for a reason, for some reason, or they have to accept that everything is meaningless. Causal or random, the choice is yours.
6) Quantum theory might just be the final theory of everything, too bad I will never understand it.
7)...........
8) Always follow the instructions.
9) Never ask for directions.
10)Don't step on the mushrooms.
11) Do something that scares you everyday.
12) Sometime being a day ahead on your calendar is a beautiful thing.
13) Avalanche (as in the hockey team) fact for Feb. 9th, 2005: David Aebischer played one season for his hometown team of Fribourg in the Swiss Elite League before being selected by Colorado in the 1997 Entry Draft.
14) this is not my favorite number
15) green is my favorite color. What's yours?
16) i think i think too much

saturn's got hotspots baby. check out that southern polar region. hot.

And the butterfly flaps its wings... 

This is a test. This is only test. If this were an actual picture, someone would definitely be notified. But since this is a test on the internet and will live forever, I figured this non-actual picture to be appropriate.