{"id":1918,"date":"2014-09-27T23:09:17","date_gmt":"2014-09-28T03:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1918"},"modified":"2014-09-27T23:46:27","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T03:46:27","slug":"fly-through-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=1918","title":{"rendered":"Fly through the sky."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"cowmoon\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This is a BIG dang day….\u00a0 I’ll tell you.\u00a0 It is the kind of day that dreams are made of.<\/p>\n

When you were a kid, do you remember reading your first science fiction novel… where it talked about Time Travel?\u00a0 I don’t know\u00a0 the exact day.\u00a0 But I remember the feeling.\u00a0 I laid in the grass in our backyard on Bruce Avenue, and stared up at the sky.<\/p>\n

And I wondered.\u00a0 And wondered… if it were possible.\u00a0 And if so… how?<\/p>\n

Little did I know.\u00a0 Then.<\/p>\n

For… whatever day that WAS… nearly 60 years earlier… history was made.\u00a0 You see… on today’s date… in 1905…. a Physics Journal…. called the Annalen der Physik,\u00a0 published Albert Einstein’s paper “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?” —- This is the paper of Big Al’s which introduced the equation E=mc\u00b2.<\/p>\n

It was a Wednesday.\u00a0 I can’t imagine what Al was doing at the time.\u00a0 Probably dunking chocolate chip cookies in a tall cold glass of milk, and wondering if the crumbs were floating because they wanted to, or because, for a moment, their molecular density….. contained less density than that of the milk… making the cookie crumbs buoyant.<\/p>\n

But here is what our boy, Albert Einstein, did.\u00a0\u00a0 He turned the notion of the impossible on its head when he announced his Theory of Relativity. It was met with admiration, enthusiasm, skepticism and, in some cases, confusion.<\/p>\n

Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is, in fact, a two-parter. He proposed that time and space aren’t absolutes.\u00a0\u00a0 And… it also maintains that gravity and motion can affect time and space.<\/p>\n

These theories…… revolutionized science….. particularly in the fields of physics, astronomy and cosmology.<\/p>\n

Yes…. It has affected a whole big bunch of scientific movements and discoveries.\u00a0 But of course…. the COOLEST is time travel.\u00a0 And… according to Uncle Al…. the ability to travel through time….. is a theoretical possibility.<\/p>\n

Here’s the dirt.\u00a0 Time is relative. There isn’t one set hour that’s universal for everyone and everything.<\/p>\n

Rather, time speeds up and slows down depending on how fast one particular object is moving relative to another object. The have proven this in outer space.<\/p>\n

AND…..Oddly enough….. the closer an object travels to the speed of light, the slower time passes. If someone could travel at the speed on light, this “time traveler” could, in theory, travel thousands of years into Earth’s future.<\/p>\n

So.\u00a0 Now that you know all of that… the age old question is finally answered.\u00a0 The CHICKEN has ALREADY crossed the road… to get to the other side…. TOMORROW.<\/p>\n

And the cow jumped over the moon.<\/p>\n

Now THAT is SCIENCE at its BEST.<\/p>\n

\u201cOnly those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.\u201d\u00a0 T.S. Eliot<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cDo not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\u201d\u00a0 Ralph Waldo Emerson <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.\u201d\u00a0 Friedrich Nietzsche<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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