....Exactly how much are we paying the gravitational pull of the sun? What in the world is a rectifier and why does it have to have the prefix - 'rect'? Who are the quarks and where can I find their influence in Quantum Physics? If a tree falls in the forest and no one's around, and then it gets petrified and buried for thousands of years until an archaeologist digs it up to learn more about plant life in that region- Can't we just take the tree's DNA and re-create it? Is the Internet going to turn into the movie TRON? TRON II? If I do the same thing for my a large percentage of my life, how does that affect my memory? Why does light bend around objects and what can that do for me? Wait, so if everything is made up of tiny little neurons, protons and electrons - what's in those and if I had a bunch of whatever that is in raw form - can I make whatever I want? If I can build muscle and grow skin- why can't I meditate hard enough and grow a tail over a period of time?
Have you ever considered questions like this? Me too! My name is Perry Wheldunin Rayer, I am a common cubicle cruiser and I question things...In the seemingly random and absurdly obscure recesses of science, lies a world of mostly ridiculous ,but surprisingly more legitimate than you would expect, questions. I plan to answer those questions...Well I plan to write about the journey to discovering the answer or pointlessness of the answer to those questions through this blog.
Dan and I met recently and immediately our styles clashed in the most pleasant of ways. We constantly butted heads on our approach to the way we deal with life - the thing is - at our root we were so similar that we could not help but have a great respect for one another and quickly became fast friends. He had this idea for a blog where he would go on about random stuff that happened in his day...letting loose and saying what he really thinks about things and asked me if I would like to join in....I brushed it off as nonsense, then he told me about it again today. When I read what he wrote and talked to him about it, I watched a light bulb slowly increase to a bright shine over his head (He knows about my interest in learning new things and my affection for the sciences)...He proposed that I blog about science stuff. Now, I am no scientist....nor have I had any formal education in the subject other than a D- in high school chemistry - and that's pretty much what I told him.
"I know!!!" he said. His eyes pulsed with fire and wild-hearted passion, "That's the fuckin point man...You know less about science and technology than Lady Gaga knows about interviewing a stylist OR a P.R. person!!!" ....for anyone who is not savvy in Pop-Culture - that means slim to none. "You could be like my Yin and I'll be your Yang...peanut butter and fucking jelly- ya know...PB&KY...." I considered the possibility that underneath his crass tactlessness maybe a not completely horrible idea....so here I am....well, I'm way over here - stop looking in the screen, I'm not actually in the screen...OK just messing with you for a second. seriously, I think I may actually have fun with this, so I hope you all enjoy reading the story of one normal man's quest to understand the inventions of our worlds geniuses - past and present.
More Soon!!!!
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