Friday, November 28, 2008

You know how ... Then why is is that...

You know how, old people have problems hearing? It's not like it's their problem, but it's just due to old age I guess.

Then why is it that, when you play music loudly in the car, they can't seem to stand it? I mean your hearing is better than theirs, and by right you should hear the music louder than they do, but yet they ask you to turn the music down.

Hmm...

Friday, November 7, 2008

2 minutes

As I promised, I shall now continue my post on 'Time Travel', and put out more mind-boggling questions about this phenomenon.

Now, I'm pretty sure most of you have heard of Hiro Nakamura, the Japanese 'superhero' from the TV series "Heroes", and there are many things that I'm not sure about his power to time travel. When Hiro time travels, his current body disappears from the present, and time goes on. To elaborate further : When Hiro travels to the past, the present still goes on without him, it is as if he had been removed from existence, until he comes back. So if thats the case, if Hiro were to travel 2 minutes into the past, and tell the 'past Hiro' not to do the same, there would be 2 Hiro's right? But then again, there would be zero Hiro's (heh, that rhymes) 2 minutes into the future. How does that work? Which means that 2-minutes-into-the-future Ando (Hiro's best friend), would be without a friend, while 2-minutes-into-the-past Ando, would have 2 best friends right? That would be like cloning people. Not only that, but you'd be creating a whole different dimension. Think about it.

Now, if let's say I were to go travel into the past, and the present would still continue going on without me, what would happen if I were to start carving my name into the walls of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, would it happen at the same rate in the future? As in, would you be able to see the the carvings the same time I'm carving it? So if that's the case, if I were to travel 2 minutes into the past and write something on your class whiteboard, you'd be able to see writings just appear on the whiteboard as I write it right? Now wouldn't that be scary?

There are just so many things that are left out while explaining, or portraying time travel, that one just stops to think about these things, like me. I've always wanted to go back in time, change something, erase a stupid mistake. But as I think about doing that, I also wonder what would happen to the future, or the present if I do so. And this concludes my post on time-travel.

Most of you are going to read this and think about the same things I do, the wonders of time travel, the many types of time travel, and the effects of time travel. Or you're going to go : "What?!".. So I only have a few words to say to you : My mind wonders, sue me.



Now here are some pictures of Japanese superstars:




Monday, November 3, 2008

A whole good minute

Have you ever wished you could go back in time? Change something that you did before? Re-write history? Well, that's what today's post is about. Time Travel.

Imagine if you had a time-machine like Marty McFly , or the ability to bend the time-space-continuum like Hiro Nakamura, what would you do? And more importantly, do you know how time-travel works? If you are looking for a mathematical explanation on time travel, you're in the wrong site my friend. I'm here just to give my opinion and bring up some questions about time travel that should get you thinking for a whole good minute.

There are many types of time-travel, that's what I've noticed through movies and TV-shows anyway. There is of course the time travel where you go back in time with the knowledge you know from the present day. And even this type of time-travel can be split up in to two sub-sections. First is where you have the knowledge of what you know now, and you travel back into the past in your current body. And there is the type of time-travel where you go back in time, but put in the body of "younger you". The latter can be seen in the movie "13 Going On 30." This movie was about a 13 year-old girl, being transported in to her 30 year-old self with only the knowledge of what she knew when she was 13, of course this is traveling to the future, but time travel nonetheless.

So using "13 going on 30" as an example, what happened to the past? I mean she teleported into the future, but if she did, how is there still a 30 year-old her? Maybe she just skipped her entire teen life and her 20's as well. Kind of like in "Click", another movie where the actor gets teleported into the future. For these examples, time-traveling into the future is more like fast-forwarding your life. You don't know whats in the middle, but you're living in the future.

I've probably bored you out by now, so I'll continue this post another time.
Till then, and I say this in the most cliched way possible :
To be Continued


Now, here are some pictures of people whose first name is 'Marty':


Marty Casey


Marty Gibson


Senator Marty


Marty the Zebra