<<You're too smart for me, but the infinite (?) universe is a very interesting subject/concept.>>
I am not smart, just a normal guy. I am just repeating what I read and most people do not read this stuff. I think it is more a matter of curiosity. I have noticed my whole life what people's interests are and it usually isn't musing about infinity or particle physics. Lots of weird shit takes place in atoms. Like those little things we always saw in our text books buzzing around the nucleus of an atom. They don't really exist-lol.
I started out investigating philosophy, but after I got past religion, existentialism and Zen, I had little interest or "talent" for esoteric logic reduction e.g. Godel. I knew particle physics was where the really big ideas were, but who dares go there? The edge of knowledge. But I had already gone through years of reading stuff I didn't undetstand when in my early 20's, to get to this place, so I just started out reading physics books again about 10 years ago. They write them these days so the layman can understand them.
And I picked up lots of great ideas/neat stuff along the way. Evolution may start in the quantum wave state. the Mind may be a quantum computer. Universe may be a hologram. Virtual particles are always popping in and out of vacuums, the universe, and when dragged across an energy field will become matter. Higgs field?
Einstein was capable of great thoughts but it was also his insatiable curiosity. He was thinking 24/7. He knew every bit of physics and attendent knowledge of the day. He stuffed it in his mind. And I think he knew the answer, relativity, would pop out. He set everyhting aside to satisfy his curiosity. A great thought to him was like a hot fudge sundae. He organized his life to simply think. When Nietzsche read Dostoevsky he said tears came to his eyes because he had found a brother. Just someone who knew what he knew.
The mistake people make is thinking the great ideas can only be understood by the very smart. Just not true, anyone can understand them if they try. One way or another. We get hung up on the path, or paths. Time after time I play in big poker games against a whole table that would easily test higher than I on a Stanford Binet, yet I usually best them. So what is that all about? I think I just think about the game more, and maybe in different ways. Broader ways, gives me more tools to work with. More software packages to draw from.
We have this great luck and honor to be born during a time when information is moving at the speed of light and one has to run to keep up with the leading edge of knowledge. Some of us enjoying running after it.
What does bother me though, is the anti intellectual culture we have developed in this country.
Remember good old Thomas Edison who said: "inventions are 99% perspiration, and 1% inspiration-lol. |
