Brendan (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} grishnash) wrote,@ 2003-10-08 21:05:00 |
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Nostalgia
The news is nothing but depressing lately. I just can't help but noticing these days that nothing is as good as it used to be. All the modern inventions and everything just can't make everyone happy. Too bad we can't just go back to simpler times. Why, back in the Planck Era, or as I call it, the Good Old Centiattoyoctoseconds, things were so much better. We didn't have to worry about your modern school shootings, crack babies, video games, and Carrot Top. What do all these modern ills have in common? Well, matter for one. That's been nothing but a disaster from the beginning. You didn't have to worry about being carjacked, or blown up by terrorists or wiped out in a supernova before we had baryons, yet somehow we survived without Krispy Kremes and reality TV. And there were no territorial wars when the whole darn universe was less than 1.6 x 10^-33 centimeters across.
Electromagnetism is hailed as a modern marvel by nearly everyone, still that's no comfort when you're struck by lightning. Today's folk agree that the nuclear weak force can really ruin your day, but no one seems to ever do anything about it. I hear kids today whine, "But how could we live without the strong nuclear force holding our protons and neutrons together?"
It's *inconceivable* to them that somehow we once made due without any of those, and no classical gravitation either! Imagine that! No one today can even come up with a plausible quantum gravitational theory, that's how far removed we've become. It's a shame that we've forgotten this universe's roots, but I for one would love to go back.
The news is nothing but depressing lately. I just can't help but noticing these days that nothing is as good as it used to be. All the modern inventions and everything just can't make everyone happy. Too bad we can't just go back to simpler times. Why, back in the Planck Era, or as I call it, the Good Old Centiattoyoctoseconds, things were so much better. We didn't have to worry about your modern school shootings, crack babies, video games, and Carrot Top. What do all these modern ills have in common? Well, matter for one. That's been nothing but a disaster from the beginning. You didn't have to worry about being carjacked, or blown up by terrorists or wiped out in a supernova before we had baryons, yet somehow we survived without Krispy Kremes and reality TV. And there were no territorial wars when the whole darn universe was less than 1.6 x 10^-33 centimeters across.
Electromagnetism is hailed as a modern marvel by nearly everyone, still that's no comfort when you're struck by lightning. Today's folk agree that the nuclear weak force can really ruin your day, but no one seems to ever do anything about it. I hear kids today whine, "But how could we live without the strong nuclear force holding our protons and neutrons together?"
It's *inconceivable* to them that somehow we once made due without any of those, and no classical gravitation either! Imagine that! No one today can even come up with a plausible quantum gravitational theory, that's how far removed we've become. It's a shame that we've forgotten this universe's roots, but I for one would love to go back.
