What attracts me to Chinese medicine?
The inter-connectedness of it, its naturalistic view, that it seems to make sense - its simplicity at times. A lens to look at the world thru, both inner and outer. It resonates, what else can I say!
What do I honestly think of Physics, really?
Quite fascinating, in daily behind-the-scenes application, even if not enough to delve into it on a deeper level - as long as you don't count philosophizing about physics at the end of a late night gazing at the stars. I must admit I have bought 2 physics books in the past decade: "Who's Afraid of Schrödinger's Cat: An A-to-Z Guide to All the New Science Ideas You Need to Keep Up with the New Thinking" and "The Physics of Superheroes" (did I really just admit that?) But at the same time, Physics is the only science class I did not take all those years ago along with all the other required ones - guess I was kind of hoping I wouldn't end up in California and wouldn't need to take it after all...
Now that I think about it, have I ever experienced time "slowing down" or "speeding up"?
Time flies when you're having fun (or as Kermit the Frog said, "Time's fun when you're having flies.") And when you are waiting for something it just tends to drag on painfully slow. But if I just forget about all that and just take in the moment, moment rolling into moment, none of that waiting really matters. It just kind of fades away...at least ideally.
My Reflections on This Week's Class - The Meaning of Time
Time boggles my mind. Time seems to be a point in space - as in right now - but then it also seems linear - as in I know those things happened in the past. There is also a future - or at least I expect there to be one. But ultimately, what's important is what I am experiencing right now. But what happened before time started, and what will be after time stops...I guess it all depends on your point of observation.
What I found really interesting is that our modern concept of time only began with the advent of train travel. I don't think I had ever given much thought to where timekeeping came from. I had always grown up with clocks, it didn't seem unusual. It seemed like that had been going on for quite some time (ha, no pun intended)...it boggles my mind to think that our obsession with scheduling is such a recent phenomenon.
Class also made me think of a Søren Kierkegaard quote: "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
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I like the Kierkegaard quote, thanks.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if the idea of linear time came with the modern construct of time? (If there is a z plane in physical space to go along with the x and y planes, does this also apply time? What does this do to linear?)