week two

Uncertainty; looking at life from a physics perspective only sure things are death and taxes so the uncertainty principle plays out all around us. Insurance companies want to give us security for our lives and our health. We can also buy (guarantee) it for our pets for a small fee. Retirement funds offer us rock solid futures. Although not a bad idea to save for old age, we have no idea what is around the next corner. Take for example in early March I'm walking the dog with plans to meet a friend later in the day for a movie. Boom, next things I know I have slipped on black ice that was covered by a thin blanket of snow and find myself heading to the emergency room and subsequent surgery to repair a badly broken wrist. That event wasn't on my calendar. So it shows that what we think is going to happen and what actually transpires can be eons apart.

Causality: Wikipeda defines causality or causation as having necessary relationship between one event (the cause) and another event (the effect) as the consequence. Okay seems pretty straight forward - but then the plot thickens - enter quantum entanglement. This explains that particles have an influence on each other so that what appears to be causing an event from one perspective - changes when viewed differently so that the view doesn't occur until after the effect has been caused. This whole theory holds lots of contraversy similar to the Bohr-Einstein debates. So it is that scientist postulate a theory and others try to prove it wrong until repeated experiments hold that something has relevance. Going deeper then is the idea of locality that says no influence is able to travel faster than the speed of light. So that any disturbance of the locality principle then causes vibrations in the normal assumption that cause must precede its' effect. Einstein refers to this as "spooky action at a distance" because there is no known way for such an interaction to occur. Whew. That's a lot to absorb - but then hold on because next comes synchronicity. More about that later.

Is the universe weird? My stars it is amazing. There's more that we don't understand than what we do understand. Typically, society says weird when they don't have a way of understanding, or don't want to, and just label something in the catagory of far out, no explanation available, etc. With each discovery of the patterns that are all around us (orbiting our nucleus) it is an awesome wonder of how could this be and where did it come from.

homework week 1

First week reflections on the meaning of time:
Slowly the door is opening and the wonders of looking at concepts like the meaning of time expands, circulates, and dances with possibilities. How different cultures view the same 24 hour segments and the goals, objectives, and focuses are subject to a lot of thought.

quiz one - Carol Hume

The meaning of time:

What attracts me to chinese medicine is a combination of things.  It goes beyond the symptoms of disease and looks for the root causes.  It offers guidelines that help with lifestyle, eating, and healing.  Chinese Medicine is time tested.  The rules used for eating have been around for centuries and hold true today.  It also looks at the role of emotions in causing illness and offers concrete methods to move the energy.  It is like the wise ones teaching us how to live a healthful life.  

What do I honestly think of physics?  I do think it will be fascinating to understand what is all around us and a bit of how it works.  Matter, energy, waves etc are pieces that I can grasp.  I think this will be possible.

I had an experience in the boundary waters in Minnesota once that was quite unique.  I was in a canoe and I suddenly realized that at the shore line there were arrows that were carved into the stones at the waters' edge.  All around the lake, these arrows were visible.  At this point, I showed the others in my canoe this phenomenon and it was as if time stood still and we gasped at the wonder of what it meant to those who put the message there.