Short post today (i.e. STOP BLABBERING)

I was searching the really popular blogs, and I had a revelation. They all have short posts. I didn't run down the street naked and yelling, like certain mathematicians of antiquity did, but I realized what the alpha rule of the alpha blogger is: the long post is reserved for when you have something really important to say...

Well today I am sick to death of politics (So is Mrs. Shiavo) and have a 4 hour drive ahead of me. (Langweilig.) So today the subject is physics. We are the citizens of a world that has seen the cataclysmic ideas of the great scientists, and are educated in them in school and supposedly live by them. We have seen the wonders that we have been able to achieve from simple equations like F=ma and E=mc^2 from space flight to nuclear fusion and fission. The thing that astounds me is there are simple facts we remain unaware of. For example, did you know that a car tire on the ground is not moving at the point of contact? Or that we weigh less because the earth rotates? or that there is no gravity at the center of the earth? or that the earth doesn't rotate around its center because Asia is so big that the earth is essentially unbalanced? or that the center is rotating faster than the surface? Did you know that it is possible to stop light, or teleport information? (can't do it faster than light, don't get your hopes up) Or that modern physical theory says that there is a minimum distance one can move, a minimum amount of time that one can measure? The humdinger of it all: if you took 2 billion years to walk through a door, you would defract like light! What we can learn from all of this is that Socrates was right: we know nothing! Its a crazy world we live in, and who knows what the possibilities are. Lets go exploring.