What the hell is going on? Who is in charge here???

So I got this job doing early morning bread deliveries to
hotels and restraunts for the Italian bakery, owned by this Dutch guy.
I called them up when I saw the ad because I wanted to do some
light delivery work at night so I could do some writing during
the day. Work on that novel and all that.

So ok, I call them up and talk to the production manager and he
says come on down for an interview and I go down there and
he says I would like to introduce you to the owner, and this
guy walks out of an office and he says Hi! I am Yaub.
And I am like, what is this an Italian bakery a Dutch bakery or
a Swedish bakery?
So anyways I am delivering this incredibly heavy bread to this
restaurant at the top of this huge tower hotel, and to get into
the place you have to go through a series of doors, with security
locks, and take the elevator and good lord what a pain so I manage
it the first day the second day I need to go to the washroom,
so I head through the maze into the lobby and ask them where the
washroom is, and then the next day, I go to make my delivery,
and they changed the security code on the door.

So I am like WTF??? So I drive around to the lobby and he says well
we have had some security issues and I am like, you mean me trying
to use your washroom?

So the next day, I am delivering my bread and there at the door, is
security personnel matron, and she opens the door for me, and she
is eyeing me suspiciously, as I struggle my load of bread on the dolly
through this maze of doors. And she says why are you having so
much trouble getting that dolly through these doors and I said,
I don't know, why do you look so fat in those pants?

The next day they changed the code again.

Anyways, I am listening to the Briefer History of Time on audio
and I am f*cking things up at work because I just can't seem to focus.

I get to the part where they start talking about the atom, the old atom
the way it was, when electron's orbitted the nucleus, and how the
electron, was kept there because of the 'electricity' between
the electron 'particle' and the nucleus, and i am like, um,
what is electricity again? Is that not the flow of electrons?
So what you are saying is the electron is being held there in orbit
by the flow of yet tinier electrons?

Well that didn't make sense to me, so then they go on to the two slit
experiment and nothing gets me riled like that two slit experiment.

Is it a wave or is it a particle, and so they set up a panel
with light bulbs on it, and they float or waft, one electron particle
down the chamber, and when it impacts the detector, it lights a bulb.

And it fringes! And you know, this is truly one of the great mysteries
of the universe. How that particle, can be there, or anywhere in the
universe at the same time.

Especially when it is a wave to begin with and not a particle at all.
Just because it can light up a dot, on a screen, does not make it a
particle.
The screen, has dots, on it.
It only, has dots.

Yeah they look like particles if you squint but they are in fact, little
dots.

But the baloon analogy made it into the book and that pleased me.
That is my great contribution. What will be remembered through the
passage of time as '_The Great Contribution_ I am still waiting for
my free dinner BTW.

One out of every 750 people bought the first book.
That is a lot of book sales. So it pays to write books on physics.

Personally I liked the first book better. But then thats just me.

You see I know about the GUT. I know, that G/u = T
I know all that. So I find it all very entertaining.
The pea branes, and the dolly partons, and the endless search,
for the holiest of holy grails, a theory of quantum gravity.

Do we need one? No not really but publish or perish!
Do we need to know, the mind of God?
I don't think we want to know that.

I don't think people even want the veil of Maya lifted these days.
I think most people just want to be un-aware.
They want to talk to the Wizard of Oz machine now thanks, not the
man behind the curtain.

We can travel forward in time! So the book says.

And I agree. At elevation, you age faster than at sea level.

Move to the mountains, go forward in time simple as that.

Gravity slows down the molecules hence it slows down the aging process
hence it slows down time.

But what is time? What is that mysterious etherial effluvium that flows
from our clocks making things happen in sequence?

One of the greatest mysterious of the universe. To be sure.
And some day, we will build a gaint collider the size of Texas and detect
the time particles themselves.
We are almost there at the point of detecting the particles that give
matter mass. The little pillows, that are tossed between particles,
will soon be laid bare by the newest giant collider that is going on
line soon. In a couple months.

And if you believe in all that, then you are on the right path.
Because people do not want to talk to the man behind the curtain,
they want to ~pretend.

And why not?
You see because when you pretend, your dad can be Bruce Lee and drive
you around, on his JCB.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3WhQB7Hq0Q






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