Thursday, 21 October 2010

How to figure out the space/time continuum

Why is there never enough time? I'm sure many people have asked this question thousands of times before, but as far as I know, no-one has come up with a satisfactory answer.

Let's face it, it can hardly be beyond the wit of man to fully grasp the mysterious complexities of the space time continuum - we came up with velcro after all. Frankly, it's a bit of a let down.

Even a rudementary grasp of primary school problem solving can get you pretty far down the track on this one - break the problem down into bits. Seems obvious, but bear with me.

Space / time continuum. Firstly, ditch the 'continuum' bit. I have no idea what it means, I'm pretty sure it's just there to make it all sound too complicated to deal with and it's therefore irrelevant. So, let's go with 'space / time'. I'm not designing a frikkin' people-carrier here so why am I bothered about space? I'm not, so I'm ditching that too.

Now we have something we can work with - 'time'.

Right, astro-quantum-temporal science dudes, I've done my bit, it's over to you.

FS

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