Not all of the most competitive races are run on roads. Just when I think I'm struggling with time, distance and speed, news breaks that gives us all a more universal perspective. Consider the recent shakeup in the macrocosm of quantum mechanics and relativity theory. Ever since Albert Einstein received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921 (Relativity) and Niels Bohr received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1922 (Quantum Mechanics), scientists have raced to understand how these two theories, each of which begat numerous advancements in technology, could have at their core a fundamental contradiction between the two conceptualizations. Essentially, can anything go faster than the speed of light?? Some
European scientists have compelling evidence that certain neutrinos may indeed have traveled between Switzerland and Italy faster than the speed of light. COULD THIS BE POSSIBLE??? If so, much of science as we know it will need to be rewritten.
I love this paradox because it demonstrates both how small we humans really are in the vastness of the universe, as well as how large we are in the vastness of striving to learn and overcome the constraints that bind us, physically to earth, and in thought. If each of us, every day, strive to further our stations in life a little farther, where ultimately can we all go? If the CERN scientists are right, we may truly be able to bend time. As cold as it is outside today, I'd be happy to go back to yesterday. Ah yes, I will push myself a little farther.
Final preparations!
Até amanhã...
9/29/11 - 2.0 miles | 20 min | 5.5 mph | 205 kcal
9/29/11 - 2.0 miles | 19 min | 6.0 mph | 204 kcal
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