Cosmology
Today during the Cosmology lecture I was almost falling asleep when the lecturer started on a tangent about when he was young.
"When I was young," he said musingly, "I had such a great privilege. You lot are really deprived. The streets in my days weren't as well lit as they are now, and as little kids we could look up into the sky and see the Milky Way."
He looked comically rapt for a moment, and continued, "Now there is too much light pollution."
I love him.
Once he came into class telling us about relativity, and how different people moving in different frames of reference with the same speed would see each other's clocks moving faster. He then dug for awhile into his bag and produced two paper clocks and a paper compass, saying, "I never go anywhere without my trusty clocks and compass." With a very droll expression he gave a paper clock to someone in the class and started moving away from her. "Do you see my clock moving faster?" He said, and she, half-giggling, said yes.
I guess the cleverest people are the quirkiest as well.
I wish I could look into the sky and see the Milky Way. Perhaps I will, when I'm older; I'd like to retire in the remotest village, with my handsome, greying husband, and sit - quiet, still - under the stars by night, and strain our ears for the slightest echo of their music. And we'd have little bottles close by, in case we'd see a shooting star; we'd catch it and use its energy to light our cosy nest, and dance together under the glowing starlight.*
*crap
"When I was young," he said musingly, "I had such a great privilege. You lot are really deprived. The streets in my days weren't as well lit as they are now, and as little kids we could look up into the sky and see the Milky Way."
He looked comically rapt for a moment, and continued, "Now there is too much light pollution."
I love him.
Once he came into class telling us about relativity, and how different people moving in different frames of reference with the same speed would see each other's clocks moving faster. He then dug for awhile into his bag and produced two paper clocks and a paper compass, saying, "I never go anywhere without my trusty clocks and compass." With a very droll expression he gave a paper clock to someone in the class and started moving away from her. "Do you see my clock moving faster?" He said, and she, half-giggling, said yes.
I guess the cleverest people are the quirkiest as well.
I wish I could look into the sky and see the Milky Way. Perhaps I will, when I'm older; I'd like to retire in the remotest village, with my handsome, greying husband, and sit - quiet, still - under the stars by night, and strain our ears for the slightest echo of their music. And we'd have little bottles close by, in case we'd see a shooting star; we'd catch it and use its energy to light our cosy nest, and dance together under the glowing starlight.*
*crap
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