Thursday, August 28, 2008
NO Explode
I take Creatine supplement to help build muscle. I decided a couple of weeks ago to try NO Explode which has Creatine and Nitric oxide combined. This stuff sucks. I have used it now 2 weeks and I feel like I have actually lost ground on my maximum lifts. 30 minutes into my workouts I feel like I need a nap. The taste (I tried grape) is nasty as hell. I am going to take a week or two off from it and then try it again and see if my workouts get better. If not I am throwing the shit in the trash.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
Hobby Cosmology
Imagine a universe that has the same laws for matter and energy as ours. Imagine that this universe comes into existence fully formed as we see our universe now. Imagine that it exists only one hour and then blinks back out of existence. Imagine in this universe there is a super computer that can receive all light coming from all over the universe (even very dim light) and analyze it in that hour.
Now that we have this theoretical universe set up, what would this super computer surmise about the nature of the universe it is in? It would see that all the stars in the universe are moving away from it, and at velocities that insured they would never slow down and begin to contract back to each other based upon observable matter's gravity. This is essentially the current thought based upon observation in our universe.
Now let's tweak our theoretical universe a little. Let's say that our super computer observed the universe and found that all the stars were rapidly approaching it, collapsing. No, I am not saying time is going backwards. Only that the observable universe was collapsing in a way that could not be explained by the gravity associated with observable matter.
In either scenario, I propose that something other than gravity (to hell with dark matter and dark energy) must be responsible for the curvature of time-space... matter, energy, and gravity, it seems to me are just phenomena associated with the curvature of time-space itself.
Now assume that space (notice I leave out time) can behave like waves. If our theoretical super computer had its hour at a position in the universe that was just past the bottom of a wave in space (just past the bottom of a sine curve). This part of the wave would appear to be an expanding universe. Wouldn't the universe appear to be expanding in a way that could not be explained by observable matter/energy/gravity? Further, since this computer only exists for an hour it would not be able to observe a part of the universe that is in contraction because it is on the other side of the wave (an event horizon?), it would have to exist long enough for the wave to catch up to it (a collapsing universe).
Is this not possibly the universe we exist in? Our hour? OK, I am going to stop now... I have a headache.
Now that we have this theoretical universe set up, what would this super computer surmise about the nature of the universe it is in? It would see that all the stars in the universe are moving away from it, and at velocities that insured they would never slow down and begin to contract back to each other based upon observable matter's gravity. This is essentially the current thought based upon observation in our universe.
Now let's tweak our theoretical universe a little. Let's say that our super computer observed the universe and found that all the stars were rapidly approaching it, collapsing. No, I am not saying time is going backwards. Only that the observable universe was collapsing in a way that could not be explained by the gravity associated with observable matter.
In either scenario, I propose that something other than gravity (to hell with dark matter and dark energy) must be responsible for the curvature of time-space... matter, energy, and gravity, it seems to me are just phenomena associated with the curvature of time-space itself.
Now assume that space (notice I leave out time) can behave like waves. If our theoretical super computer had its hour at a position in the universe that was just past the bottom of a wave in space (just past the bottom of a sine curve). This part of the wave would appear to be an expanding universe. Wouldn't the universe appear to be expanding in a way that could not be explained by observable matter/energy/gravity? Further, since this computer only exists for an hour it would not be able to observe a part of the universe that is in contraction because it is on the other side of the wave (an event horizon?), it would have to exist long enough for the wave to catch up to it (a collapsing universe).
Is this not possibly the universe we exist in? Our hour? OK, I am going to stop now... I have a headache.
Friday, August 22, 2008
Obama will choose Kathleen! (Sorry Brett)
THE Generation Gap
Every generation finds it difficult to relate to the previous generation, this is the way it has always been. I have been reading a lot of blogs and articles about gay marriage and how younger people typically have less of a problem with it. It occurred to me the current generation gap is probably the most dramatic in US history, if not the history of mankind.
The cultural shift that has evolved between the "greatest" generation and the generations X/Y is such that we might as well be speaking different languages. The perspectives on gay rights, religion, environmentalism, government, corporations could not be more different. My parents generation have a much more black and white perspective of the world Christianity good, capitalism good, Communism bad, Atheism bad, Liberals bad, homosexuality bad, etc... My generation (X) and the one following (Y) see many more grey tones... fewer absolutes.
The perspective of our parents is understandable. It is very easy to view the world in black and white when you grow up in a world filled with possibilities, the most powerful economy and military in the world. How could we be wrong when everything in our country seemed so perfect.
The new perspective comes out of necessity. Quick adaptation is now necessary for survival. Technology changes daily. In most parts of the country you are now more likely to see a non-white face than a white face. Communist China is now the most powerful economy. A static position on anything is likely to leave you obsolete.
When I hear an old person complain about gays or communism or whatever the rant of the day is... I feel like I have been transported to another world... A world where nothing physical really exists, everything is simply a word, good or bad, detached from reality.
The new generations cannot come into power soon enough for me.
The cultural shift that has evolved between the "greatest" generation and the generations X/Y is such that we might as well be speaking different languages. The perspectives on gay rights, religion, environmentalism, government, corporations could not be more different. My parents generation have a much more black and white perspective of the world Christianity good, capitalism good, Communism bad, Atheism bad, Liberals bad, homosexuality bad, etc... My generation (X) and the one following (Y) see many more grey tones... fewer absolutes.
The perspective of our parents is understandable. It is very easy to view the world in black and white when you grow up in a world filled with possibilities, the most powerful economy and military in the world. How could we be wrong when everything in our country seemed so perfect.
The new perspective comes out of necessity. Quick adaptation is now necessary for survival. Technology changes daily. In most parts of the country you are now more likely to see a non-white face than a white face. Communist China is now the most powerful economy. A static position on anything is likely to leave you obsolete.
When I hear an old person complain about gays or communism or whatever the rant of the day is... I feel like I have been transported to another world... A world where nothing physical really exists, everything is simply a word, good or bad, detached from reality.
The new generations cannot come into power soon enough for me.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Elixir of Life
Randy and I are going to Topeka this weekend to pick up a most precious acquisition. No ordinary treasure could convince me to travel to the home town of the Phelps clan. It is a fountain... a glorious beautiful fountain...
Yes... it is a soda fountain.
Laugh if you must... but I average two or three 2-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi a day... you do the math. We will now be able to buy syrup and CO2 and have our pop on the cheap.
Yes... it is a soda fountain.
Laugh if you must... but I average two or three 2-liter bottles of Diet Pepsi a day... you do the math. We will now be able to buy syrup and CO2 and have our pop on the cheap.
Monday, August 11, 2008
Weekends are crazy busy
So this weekend we went to Dodge city to visit a friend and Randy's parents, the weekend before that we went to Tulsa to visit friends, this weekend we are going to Topeka, the weekend after that we are going to KC... good thing it has been raining or my flowers would have died from drought. Summer is always like this... so much to do and so little time to squeeze it all in.
Thursday, August 7, 2008
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