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Hithorys In reply to helopilotoh58 [2012-07-20 18:49:26 +0000 UTC]

I read most of it, and I love it. It's so eerily close to reality - inane television shows with no creativity replacing the written word, and those clinging to learning and depth over substance-less dribble becoming misunderstood and shunned. However, it totally lost me at the chase scene. I put it down, picked it up, put it down, picked it up, and put it down for good. I figure, like any good movie, he could have stood to know when to edit.

I still rank it up with the best of them, though.

I still need to finish the Dancing Wu Li Masters, there on the table. It needs an update, but it's the most beautifully written explanation of quantum physics I've ever found.

Cheers!

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helopilotoh58 In reply to Hithorys [2012-07-20 21:08:35 +0000 UTC]

I read the whole thing. Was very good. I agree, very much like reality today. You see it one the supposed "Learning" tv channels. Discovery, TLC(The Learning Channel, ironic), History; all have gone from showing documentaries about nature and science and engineering and HISTORY(hint on that one..lol) to showing reality shows, Pawn Stars, Ice Road Truckers, etc. Even Animal Planet is getting into the same with their reality shows. Learning has become secondary, or even tertiary to senseless shows about how much crap one guy can haul over a road of ice, or how much money some schmuck can get for a piece of paper, etc.

I've found that finding people who are interested in learning new things, science, nature, etc. are hard to come by. Being able to discuss science in a conversation has to be dumbed down to the point where it's painful to discuss. Also in the same conversation you see that most simply don't care, and once the conversation is over, they've forgotten most of what was said or discussed.

I have hope in my children, I have three, they want to and are eager to learn. Every time I have them for the weekend they ask questions, or questions are brought up. Here recently they learned about extinction. Asked about the dinosaurs and why they aren't here. In the same discussion they learned a little of evolution, because it's widely accepted that birds are descendant from early dinosaurs. They ask questions, and they know that I'll answer, and allow them to ask me things like that, that I'm not afraid to teach them. I want them to learn. Paying attention to whether or not Joe Blo got laid last night on what ever reality show was on is a waste of the incredible machine the human brain is.

With that you'll have to understand how amazing it is for me to now find out that you enjoy quantum physics. Once I get a free moment this weekend I'll point you to another person I've met here that is going to school for astrophysics. I watch tv shows about this stuff and read books about it all, I see the people and authors for this and to me they're the famous people, they're my Tom Cruise's and Kim Kardashians. So yea, total thumbs up for learning and not wasting your brain. An intelligent woman is far more attractive than one that wastes it.

I haven't read Dancing Wu Li Masters. I'll definitely have to look into it. All I've read on the subject has come from Brian Greene's books, and a few others that escape my memory at the moment. Sorry for the long rant, just struck a nerve there with me is all.

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Hithorys In reply to Caeruleum [2008-06-08 18:19:28 +0000 UTC]

What can I say... I'm rarely without my heels.

Why, thank you, though!

Cheers!
~Honey

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