Future and past tense—now with jinxes!
Nov. 29th, 2009 03:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pjthompsonThat science. It always comes up with the most interesting stuff.
It would be nice to think that Nature or The Universe or Our Future Selves were out there looking out for us, preventing catastrophic mistakes by preventing our Machines of Doom from working. I mean catastrophic mistakes of the "destroy the earth" kind of largeness since obviously we're making personal and societal catastrophic mistakes all the time. But I dunno about this theory. Interesting, though.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between advanced quantum theory and magical thinking, and I'm okay with that most of the time. The universe being stranger than we can imagine and all that. I don't need to understand everything, and indeed I find it rather comforting that all I really know about the Universe is that I don't know. The search for answers always turns out to be more important than the actual getting of answers. And maybe that's the case here, as well.
All I can say is that it's a good thing the scientists at CERN aren't going to flip the switch in December of 2012 or—whoa, Nellie!—think of the panicked websites springing up everywhere. Or here's a sinister thought: maybe the Mayans were off by a couple of years.
Yeah, I'm evil.
It would be nice to think that Nature or The Universe or Our Future Selves were out there looking out for us, preventing catastrophic mistakes by preventing our Machines of Doom from working. I mean catastrophic mistakes of the "destroy the earth" kind of largeness since obviously we're making personal and societal catastrophic mistakes all the time. But I dunno about this theory. Interesting, though.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference between advanced quantum theory and magical thinking, and I'm okay with that most of the time. The universe being stranger than we can imagine and all that. I don't need to understand everything, and indeed I find it rather comforting that all I really know about the Universe is that I don't know. The search for answers always turns out to be more important than the actual getting of answers. And maybe that's the case here, as well.
All I can say is that it's a good thing the scientists at CERN aren't going to flip the switch in December of 2012 or—whoa, Nellie!—think of the panicked websites springing up everywhere. Or here's a sinister thought: maybe the Mayans were off by a couple of years.
Yeah, I'm evil.