We can't stop here - this is bat country!

[cybermule]

Had a lousy night, as the more Holmesian of you may have gathered from the timestamps on some of my comments! To make up for it though, I've had an excellent day. Got up fairly late after some snoozing and took things to the tip, marvelling as I did so as to why someone would buy a wicker chair only to offload it in apparently new condition.

Boggling mildy at human nature always puts me in a good mood for the day, so I then headed to the local nursery to pick up some bargainous child slaves. Hahah. Garden centre, obviously, where I picked up a cut-price wisteria, some purple slate chippings and a couple of nice pots. I then spent a very pleasant hour or two chilling in the garden with a pen and notebook, scheming on some plans for my garden in particular and my life in general. I've also been astonishingly productive with regards to my OU essay on chronology in news stories - half done! My tutor may even get it early as a special present for him repeatedly complimenting me by calling attention to my quixotic nature. Sorry, but I just view that as praise :P

I was going to make some notes on the nature of time from picking the brains of my physicist friend. As they're dull, whimsical and of subjective interest, I'm going to put them

1. At one level, we can see that time is bi-directional. Some physical processes (Schrodinger, Newton) are time-reversible.
   
2. At another level, time's arrow is very obvious e.g. entropy
   
3. Awareness of entropy is obvious in the hankering of philosophers and writers after a "lost golden age" (e.g. classical poets and Renaissance)
   
4. bearing in mind the dubious certainty of point (3), my own idealistic nature and the subjective perception of time by mankind (Castaneda, trips, Levi-Strauss music/mythology analogy) - what next?
   (read "The Characteristics of Physical Law" (Feynman (biploar?)).
   

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[cybermule.livejournal.com]

Heehee - excellent point :D I did know about the book, honest! I just didn't want to imply that I'd actually read it, then be shown up by the qquote not being there ;) My dad encouraged me to read the book once, but I never got into it - somehow it neither seemed interesting or relevant at the age of 13 ;) The whole thread's prompted me to go and scrap for a copy on EBay though...