Sunday, November 15, 2009

It`s Black and White

Are we able to travel back in time? Einstein wrestled endlessly with the idea. If we travel the speed of light then we can stop time. What would traveling the speed of light be like? It`s hard to wrap your head around that concept. It makes my brain twist and turn and imagine. I imagine a clock with the hour and minute hand frozen because each tick has been stopped. I am going faster then the light that allows me to see the tick on the next movement that the clock hand makes. I`d like to go to Shibuya, in downtown Tokyo and freeze time. You can do that. That is what a picture is. A picture allows us only to have one point of perspective. I`d like to be able to move around walk up to a completely frozen street turn 360 degrees. We could take a 360 degree shot... true and that has been done. I want to be able to walk forward and back...no not like the zoom button on a camera. You can only see some part of the picture not what is obstructed from view. It would be neat to take time to take in full awareness of the situation. You could argue that you could could go to a completely empty field and and just stare. There would be no action there just maybe a calm breeze over grass. A lot of times the cinema has captured this idea freezing time and letting the observer pace around. It is quite interesting that in order for us to really stop time, freeze time we would actually have to be going extremely fast. It`s like shuffling the cards so much that you find them back in the same order then. I say these things because it is true that everything is speeding up. Every year swimmers are going faster, snowboarders are coming up with new tricks, people are running new speeds. World records are beat on a contant basis and maybe even in an increasing frequency. Our technology is becoming more advanced, and more simple. The world is speeding up. It is really an observation nothing more that I have.
Put that aside and realize that we have been around for a mouse fart of Earth`s existence.. of the Universe`s existence. I like using mouse farts in my interpretation of things that are very small because it`s just a funny thing to comprehend. First imagine how small a mouse is and then imagine how small the sound would be when that little mouse farted or consider thinking what if that little mouse produced a loud sounding flatulation boy that would be suprising... you would have to do a double take on the mouse and make sure what you were hearing was from the appropriate culprit. I bring this to your attention because we are in fact speaking of opposites. I was just telling you about how in order to stop time we would have to be going extremely fast, quite ironic. Well another character of opposites is that they are quite comedic in imagination (a small mouse producing a big fart, or lets take a huge giant making a very small fart) It is quite another way that opposites and their characteristics inhabit our existence and make it interesting. A very small mouse making a very small sound would be funny still because we are so big that to comprehend such a thing would be hilarious. We could take this even further and consider psychology.
We are attracted to our opposite. It seems that science has given difference an important role in determining the compatibility of everything.