Later morning. You just finished your walk
at Pine Hill Lakes Park and you are waiting on Carol to finish hers. There is
an ad in the paper that Performance has a Limited Avalon for five thousand off
and Carol has agreed to go take a look. Earlier you spread fungus killer on
grass spots in the yard that are taking on a yellowish brown patch, which in
earlier years you discovered was a fungus. You have to get grass seed for
spreading in areas of the yard turned up by machinery eradicating the dying
trees. You also have to pick up some killer for the minuscule ants slowly
invading the kitchen area, and you may look at a pair of much cheaper
headphones while you are at either Target or Walmart. Carol is crossing the
earth dam presently. Later, orndorff. - Amorella
Mid-afternoon.
You stopped at Performance Toyota and Honda in Fairfield and test-drove the
Avalon Hybrid Limited and Honda EXL. The Limited is on sale, asking thirty
seven five for the manager's car with ten thousand miles on it. The point was
not to buy the car but for Carol to experience the ride. You liked the pickup
and the comfortably cooled leather seats. The new Honda rides no different (to
you) than any other Honda EXL. The Honda ride is firm and tight which, to you,
gives it a sporty ride. When you are driving a Honda you know you are driving a
car. The Avalon feels and drives like the more luxurious car that it is. To you
it is worth the wait to see the 2014 models in both. You like both and don't
dislike either enough than to easily go with what Carol chooses. So, for you,
as far as new hybrid cars with all the goodies are concerned, life is simple. -
Amorella
That is very good to know, Amorella.
1538
hours. Finally, we are home after a quick stop at Kroger's. Next weekend or the
week after Kim, Paul and the boys will be down for an overnight. Amorella, you
say life is simple but my heart is leaning towards the comfort of the Avalon.
How bad is that?
Sorry, boy, that's your mind at work. Your
heart is content either way. Your mind is saying 'after a lifetime, I deserve
some laid back luxurious transportation, and the Avalon will do nicely, thank
you very much.' - Amorella
I am more materialistic than I thought if that is the case.
It
is not about the cost, you are thinking about showing off showing up in a new
Avalon, you are thinking of the long-term comfort level of the drive and ride.
It would be like a present to yourself for being who you are. - Amorella
I'm
nobody special, Amorella.
Not to yourself, certainly, but it would be
a present for surviving as long as you have. - Amorella
That doesn't seem like a very good reason.
It isn't. That's why it doesn't make it a
very good argument. It does sound good though. Another connecting problem is
that this is Carol's car to ultimately choose not yours. You get the next one
if there is a next one. - Amorella
True. I wouldn't feel good after railroading what I wanted.
Maybe she'll choose the Avalon, orndorff,
and you'll both be satisfied with the decision. - Amorella
I'll be content with whichever car she chooses. (1553)
You
and Carol relaxed watching several DVRed recordings after eating Mac's fresh
corn you brought home from yesterday's picnic. Still very, very good corn.
Tonight at dusk you had another errand, this time to Walmart. And, as an extra
you bought a twenty-nine dollar pair of Sony headphones to use until you fix
the one pair you bought four days ago. Mac told you how to fix them at the
picnic. For this you are grateful. - Amorella
2235 hours. This has been a good day but I really am ready to do some
writing.
Wait until morning, boy. You like to think
things through and I like your sense of a timetable. In here, heartansoulanmind
do not work by the artificial clock. They do not always even work by the
natural rhythms of the universe. Doug and Nancy sent you a really great
LiveScience article today. Let's drop it in here because I want to say
something about it even though it is a few years old. - Amorella
** **
Twisted Physics: 7
Mind-Blowing Findings
Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior
Writer - February 18, 2011 08:55am ET
From bizarre antimatter to
experiments that tie light up in knots, physics has revealed some spooky sides
of our world. Here are seven of the most mind-blowing recent discoveries.
Quark-gluon soup
Credit:
CERN.
Another amazing feat of physics
came out of Brookhaven's Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider this year. In February
2010 scientists announced they'd created a "quark-gluon soup" where
protons and neutrons had broken up into their constituent building blocks –
quarks and gluons.
It took extremely powerful collisions
of gold atoms in the accelerator to achieve the temperatures necessary – about
7 trillion degrees Fahrenheit (4 trillion degrees Celsius). These conditions
are 250,000 times hotter than the center of the sun and similar to temperatures
seen just after the birth of the universe. They were the hottest temperatures
ever reached on Earth.
Amazing
particle triplets
Credit:
Wikipedia
Using lithium atoms, scientists
recreated an ancient mathematical symbol that had been seen as far back as the
second century in Afghan Buddhist art. The symbol, called the Borromean rings,
depicts three rings linked together. If any ring were removed, they would all
come apart.
Physicists predicted that particles
should be able to form this same arrangement, but no one had been able to
achieve it until now. The final realization, announced in December 2009, came
40 years after the prediction.
Light bends matter
Credit: Nicholas Kotov
While it's easy to see matter
bending light – just look through a prism – it's rare to find light bending
matter. But scientists saw just that in an experiment reported in March 2010.
Researchers assembled flat ribbons of nanoparticles – tiny bits of matter only
billionths of a meter long – in a darkened laboratory.
Then when the ribbons were exposed to
light, they curled up into spirals. The results could help engineers design new
types of optics and electronics.
Levitating magnet
Credit: LDX
team
Nuclear fusion – the melding of
atomic nuclei that happens inside stars – is a long-sought goal on Earth. If
scientists can achieve it, it could offer a powerful source of energy with few
negative environmental consequences.
Scientists took a step closer to this
goal in January 2010 when they announced they'd built a levitating magnet that
created some of the conditions thought to be necessary for fusion. By
suspending a giant donut-shaped magnet in midair, researchers were able to
control the motion of an extremely hot gas of charged particles contained
within the magnet's outer chamber. The density of this gas was close to what's
needed for nuclear fusion, the researchers said.
New
antimatter particle
Credit: NASA
By smashing particles together
at close to light speed inside an atom smasher, scientists created a
never-before-seen type of matter: an anti-hypertriton.
This particle is weird in many
ways. First, it's not normal matter, but its eerie opposite, called antimatter,
which annihilates whenever it comes into contact with regular mass. Second, the
anti-hypertriton is what's called a "strange" particle, meaning it
contains a rare building block called a strange quark, which isn't present in
the protons and neutrons that make up regular atoms.
The experiment was conducted at the
Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton,
N.Y. The results were announced in March 2010.
Knots of light
Credit: Mark
Dennis.
Light may seem to travel a
straight line, but sometimes it gets twisted into knots. In January 2010
researchers reported using a computer-controlled hologram to twist beams of
laser light into pretzel shapes. The holograms, which direct the flow of light,
were specially created to send light in certain directions and shapes.
The researchers used a field of
mathematics known as knot theory to study the resulting loops. These swirls of
light, called optical vortices, could have implications for future laser
devices, the physicists said.
Spooky entanglement
Credit:
University of Innsbruck
One of the strangest
predictions of the theory of quantum mechanics is that particles can become
"entangled" so that even after they are separated in space, when an
action is performed on one particle, the other particle responds immediately.
In June 2009 scientists announced
they had measured entanglement in a new kind of system – two separated pairs of
vibrating particles. Previous experiments had entangled the internal properties
of particles, such as spin states, but this was the first time scientists had
entangled the particles' pattern of motion, which is a system that resembles
the larger, everyday world.
From: livescience.com/12910-twisted-physics-top-findings
** **
This
last point, Spooky Entanglement, is 'natural physics' but in here it most
definitely resembles the larger, everyday world in these Merlyn books. In here
I represent an entanglement of heart and soul and mind. You are the thread but
I am the needle, boy. Think about that for tomorrow's Brothers 21. Post. -
Amorella
Amorella, I have no idea how you can set up a fictional evidence of
this, but I do not doubt you can do this because you did in book three of the
first series, Merlyn's Mind. Fictional evidence, now there is a phrase
you don't see every day. What a twist of humor. I love you, Amorella. Such a
delight you are to my inner self.
That alone, says something, doesn't it boy?
- Amorella
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