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Apr 10, 2006 22:01

Other highlights of the morning that I forgot to mention included waking up from some seriously disturbing dreams, and discovering right before I left for work that one of the cats Does Not Approve of the new litter and had thus crapped on the kitchen floor (and kindly flipped the rug over to "bury" it ( Read more... )

reading, soliloquy

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benefitz April 11 2006, 07:16:51 UTC

Do you remember UJ from Whitman? I took astro 120 with him, the cosmology for non majors course. I have this image forever etched in my brain of UJ rocking minutely back and forth so as to demonstrate that he can't move into those other 7 dimensions. It was funny.

Another favorite UJ memory is when he coined the unit "hydrogen atoms per closet." It was used as a description of how much matter there is an an "empty" region of space: roughly 7 hydrogen atoms per closet.

I like the term "extradimensional jaunt." It sounds fun.

the_drifter April 16 2006, 15:20:18 UTC

Jen took a cosmology course in college that she really loved. You two should sit down and talk space some time. I'll listen and eat popcorn.

benefitz April 16 2006, 20:59:23 UTC

Sounds fun. I love cosmology. It's the kind of subject that makes me want to be a scientist.

wealhtheow April 11 2006, 09:23:06 UTC

I'm currently reading Flatland and it's a very fun exploration of a two-dimensional world, as well as being a biting satire of Victorian society. It might make a nifty addendum to your current mental meanderings on the topic of many-dimensions.

Timbuktu is in Mali.

the_drifter April 16 2006, 15:21:48 UTC

Thanks for the geography schoolin'. Greene mentions/recommends Flatland in The Elegant Universe; I may have to add that to my list.

perkolated April 11 2006, 19:45:58 UTC

Last night I finished Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin. She broaches the sideways jump (sort of), and the path can only be found when in an airport waiting area once your anxiety has piqued. An entertaining read.

the_drifter April 16 2006, 15:24:21 UTC

Heh-- I like the premise (and Le Guin, too, though I haven't read anything of hers for a while).

There is a guy in our Basic Rider Training course who has your same first&last name (though I imagine he spells the first differently). Doesn't look much like you, but every time I look at him, I glare a little (all right, so that part's mostly in my head) and think, "Identity thief!"

anonymous July 29 2007, 08:30:53 UTC

Timbuktu is about fifteen miles north of the Niger river in Mali.