The moment I have shifted to Materials Engineering, I have always anticipated taking up advanced Chemistry subjects. I always get giddy whenever I think about the chemical reactions waiting for me to be whooah-ed at, the surface morphologies I'd be looking at, and the chemical processes that would take place right before my eyes. These very simple thoughts would already make me want to aim higher and get very very very good grades. And to put it simply, these split-second mind joys stimulate my extreme passion to be a very very very very good Materials Engineer.
So, why this sudden injection of Relativity on my blog (I HATE physics (See I flunked my exams?!) the way I'm disgusted with capitalism and the market)?
Last tuesday, we began our lectures in Relativity in my Physics 73 class. Mr. Solis, who is very interested in studies about black holes, time warps, and the likes (I assume), talked about regions of spacetime one morning. He said something about the past, the future, and the elsewhere lying somewhere above or below the hidden line of the speed of light.
I could not be interested more when he said that the concept of the present wasn't included in this region of spacetime. He said that only the past, the future, and the elsewhere mattered.
Golly Wow, I was taken aback! Wasn't the present always the most important thing in this world? Doesn't it always come first in our lists of priorities and worries?
So where the hell is it? Does it even exist?
That was when I get intrigued with Relativity. I have found out that I have to disregard every common sense that I apply in my everyday life because I have to imagine myself inside a spaceship or somewhere in another galaxy of another inertial reference frame different from ours.
BUUUUUT, YOU MAY WELL GUESS THAT IT IS VERY VERY VERY HARD FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME WHO HASN'T EVEN SEEN A REAL SPACESHIP NOR GET INSIDE ONE OF THOSE ENGINEERING AND SCIENCE WONDERS (I am very biased with Engineering, yaAaaaAAAaaaHHhhhH????) TO IMAGINE MYSELF INSIDE IT ( I still get amazed at how Einstein and Poincare and Laplace and all those relativists figured all of these out just by careful calculations and wild imaginations!).
It is very simple to get the velocity of a 26 million peso Lambourghini, but to understand how long a space probe travels to alpha centauri, which is 4 light yeas away from earth, is much more challenging and waaaaaaaaay more interesting.
I may not get a very high score in this part of Physics, but I am very very very sure I would take these lessons in Relativity in my heart like a good and warm memory that couldn't be tainted by my faulty camera-like mind.
K Bye. Need to study more! :)
