Saturday, November 17, 2018

Atomic time

I just had an idea and no one to tell so here it goes. We may not be able to record reliably where an electron is in an atom but we know that it is there. I do not know enough about quantum physics to say, but without certainty I formed a hypothesis: if we choose a location and measure it's return to the same location we might find it is periodic, like celestial reckoning. Passage of time seems to vary but things like gravity and other forces keep speed pretty constant and reliable. In geometery I learned that we do not need to be told every angle to be able to extropolate and determine other dimensions. My thoughts conjured or deduced such a way to measure what seemed otherwise unmeasurable. All thanks to a video I saw years ago in Dahlonega, Georgia at an engineering camp in which Carl Sagan likened atoms and what was infinity smaller to that which was infinitively larger and that through understanding the one we could understand the other. My dad sort of said the same thing when he described how a particular major emphasis was not as important in college as much as understanding a particular thing in greater detail. In turn we would be able to understand other things in such a greater degree of complexity. Wow. My dad is such a genius! And all along due to grades and standard quantification of intelligence I assumed only my mother was the brainy one. But, if I extrapolate such a thought. Ofcourse, why would she have "yoked" herself to such a goof? I had been fooled by his humility to think he really is just as ordinary as they come.

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