theBreeze

Janis, the international flight attendant. It is like speaking to someone while you are facing away from them. After a period of silence, you turn to find that she is gone.

The onlooker commented, “She left a while ago.”

Shed no tears. While you were away from home tending the kid flock, the sheep flock called on their cell phone, and asked if they could visit. Well, I was thrilled. They arrived in a white stretch limo, sunglasses all. Bitchin’ about the long ride, nothing to munch… you know them better than I.

It wasn’t long before the infighting started between the two flocks. Of course, this allowed me scant time for counting, or sleep. Damn sheep! I put my foot down; hollered at Rosalie. They all got really quiet, kinda hurt feelings, ‘sheepish’ might describe it. Well, I felt bad, so I hugged them all, and we went inside for cookies and milk. It turned the corner. They are having the best of times, although your’s miss you.

They think participation is more important than individual achievement, so they don’t set goals of achievement. Lacking goals is also contributed to by their need for immediate satisfaction. It’s like work is a video game, where everything has an immediate outcome. It is in no sense long-term.

Today’s graduates are also very needy, seeking and expecting constant praise, usually for just being here. It has little to do with achievement. A very needy group, always seeking lots of encouragement and far more attention than other generations. Might be related to all the parenting focussed on always telling the kids how special and perfect and good they are, regardless of performance.

Today’s graduates also regard themselves as quite privileged, especially when it comes to promotion. Doing work is not seen as a part of it. Just because ‘they are’ is reason enough for an employer to put them on the fast track to promotion, higher salary and a better life in the business world.

I trust you are familiar with the aspects of karma. From time to time I have shared my own mix of philosophy-religion with son Colin. As an aside, his Mom, my ex-beloved, is atheist, nope, Buddhist now. Being raised Catholic, I feel Colin is at risk for having no religion. He can pick his own when he requires it, Quaker being that choice now. I think religion is good, but the variety we seem to have in common as kids was way too much hell and brimfire. In one of my ex-beloved’s psych books I was poking through years ago, I found it rated ethnic and religious traits, and offered some clues to them. Naturally I was interested in Irish, and Catholic, being majority both. What I read there was spot on, right, confirming what I already understood. I poked further. There was a page on… French Canadien Catholics. Well, FCC’s are the essence of doom, doom, doom. I save passages. On FCC’s:

“Shrouded with secrecy, in the dark confessional sits the priest, an instrument of God, who is sworn never to reveal to any person the sins revealed to him. The supplicant whispers his sins into the priest's compassionate ear, feeling abjectly guilty, but on completion arises from the kneeling position with a sense of deliverance!... Over time, such confessional experiences make people reluctant to speak out face to face, in daylight, in an open space, to a person not bound by the same religious rules as a priest.”

Then:

“Until quite recent times the doctrine of original sin was emphasized and human nature viewed with profound pessimism. In ‘Visions of Gerard’, Jack Kerouac, himself Franco‑American (French‑Canadian) summed up the view of self that resulted from this teaching: ‘But you bumbling fool you're a mass of sin, a veritable barrel of it, you swish and swash in it like molasses ‑ You ooze mistakes thru your frail crevasses.’”

But, back to karma. Colin has observed my interface with my own karma, not at all the rarified variety. “Dad, you better watch out. Your karma is real-time.” (and that’s just the way I like it) Just this Sunday morning, we were poking spiteful fun at Last Chance Marie, Colin’s imaginary girlfriend for me. I made an unkind comment, meant to amuse.

“Ouch!”

Colin asked, “Dad, what happened?”

“Burned my thumb.”

More often than not, karma balances out the books in a minute of less. Or am I just acknowledging omens. I am pretty certain it is a mix of the two.

All of the stuff that the universe is made of is either matter (particles) or waves (energy). We also know that, by Einstein’s relativity equations, that matter is convertible to energy, and vice versa. Einstein’s relativity equations also establish relationships between time and velocity. The faster a thing goes, the slower it’s time reference is.

Light is a ‘quanta’ that is a wave particle. It also has the same speed limit as it’s name, the ‘speed of light.’ Supposedly, nothing, including light, can travel any faster. However, in the ‘90’s observations were made of quantum physics level particles leaving a space before they arrived, thus violating or better said, exceeding the speed of light. This is true. I read the paper years ago; have it somewhere.

And so, there is room for expansion, or extrapolation of all of these relationships.

Here is a question, easily answered. Is gravity a particle, or a wave? As best as I can determine it is either a wave, or, like light, a wave particle, making it just like light. Light travels at a speed, pretty fast - 186,000 mi/sec as I recall. So perhaps gravity does too. We know that gravity is a very small, feeble force, depending only on mass of nearby objects for its kick. There are lots of points of neutral gravity, like the orbits of satellites around planets. Even NASA incorrectly calls these point of ZERO gravity. Simply not true. They are points of neutral gravity, where gravity forces are balanced.

Likewise there is no end to how far light can travel, at least not in a straight line. However, if we get out of the way of a lightbeam (wave), we are in a zone of zero light. I believe the same is true of gravity. If one simply gets out of it’s way, we will experience no gravity.

I visualize waves of gravity like a hanging shower curtain, with waves depicting it surface. For gravity, like all waves, the waves are really moving along, but can be seen as stable, so long as their speed is constant, which of course it is, excluding the effects of friction.

If I now picture several shower curtains hanging parallel to each other, with spaces between them, like sheets on parallel clotheslines, what effects would one find in between these sheets? Nothing? Maybe so.

To travel from across the gap between two of these gravity sheets, some finite distance would have to be crossed. This crossing would then take time. Depending on the sheets (waveplanes) chosen, and whether we crossed between them perpendicularly or on a diagonal, the time to cross would differ. Yet, the waves that make up the gravity planes would of necessity remain in sync. For this to be true, time would have to change between them depending on our angle of crossing. This angle would thus relate time and gravity, by either a change in time, or a change in position. Either way, we would have a new look at time and position. Moving ‘forward’ to the adjacent gravity plane would place us further along, an advanced position, ahead of ourselves in the plane we left. Position travel or time travel. I don’t know, nor do I know if there is a difference. The two may be intraconvertible.

Likewise, I do not what the state of matter between these gravity waveplanes would be, but it seems logical that there would be no gravity there.

Thanks for the inspiration, BLOG. I haven’t written about this, like this, before, only thought about it. Or, maybe it’s just a big fish story. Regardless, it’s fun to think about.

Good Day To All,
In response to your requests, theBreeze has decided to initiate a BLOG, aka weB Log. In keeping with the universal principal of snarkiness, a few words follow, to set a possible threaded tone for what is to follow.
Pity – sympathy for a suffering other.
Compassion – sympathetic consciousness of another’s distress and a desire to alleviate it.