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Jul. 29th, 2005
Shallow, Clothes-Oriented Post
Jul. 29th, 2005 04:27 pmToday I'm wearing an old favorite, my red polka-dotted slip dress. This goes back to 1995 and to update it, I turned my basic white cardigan into a shrug by knotting it in front, and wore that on top (also makes the dress work-friendly). White thong shoes, and for jewelry I wore my red-and-white hearts necklace, and my gold heart bracelet. Simple gold earrings and minimal makeup--the bright red of the dress is what's supposed to get noticed in thit outfit.
The Entropy Effect
Jul. 29th, 2005 06:25 pmI'm re-reading one of my favorite Start Trek (OS) novels now, called The Entropy Effect. It's really good, very well-written. It's about a convicted criminal who's a physicist--he specializes in temporal physics (i.e., having to do with time), and he's been sent to some prison and the Enterprise has to transport him. The ship is actually called away from another mission--the Enterprise is in orbit around a naked singularity. (I'm not exactly sure what these are--I know it has something to do with black holes which means time, because black holes are so dense that nothing can escape, not even light, and that slows down or stops time, right? Doesn't relativity mean light, time and matter are all interconnected? ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
tenner or any other physicists here, feel free to explain it--I've always been fascinated by temporal physics and relativity but have never studied physics.
Anyway, the ship is orbiting the singularity so Spock can study it, and they're called away to transport this prisoner before he can replicate his first round of calculations. But he knows that something is really messed up with the universe's time, and according to his preliminary observations, entropy is building up way too fast, and we have something like less than a century left. The prisoner is picked up and kept in the brig...
( Cut for Duncan, who has yet to read this )
So I was wondering--in the 4th ST movie, The Voyage Home, they find out Earth is doomed because they killed off the whales 200 years ago. Kirk & Co. decide to go back in time to get whales, to bring back to the future, to communicate with the giant floating tube sock that's about to destroy earth. Not that I want the earth to be destroyed, but that seems a rather cavalier reason to...y'know, tear up time. It's not as though the universe was going to be destroyed, it's just Earth. Okay, that sounds bad. It's just that they weren't correcting an error--they were introducing one. I happen to love that installment (Duncan, you definitely need to watch it, it's hilarious) but it's something to consider.
tenner or any other physicists here, feel free to explain it--I've always been fascinated by temporal physics and relativity but have never studied physics.Anyway, the ship is orbiting the singularity so Spock can study it, and they're called away to transport this prisoner before he can replicate his first round of calculations. But he knows that something is really messed up with the universe's time, and according to his preliminary observations, entropy is building up way too fast, and we have something like less than a century left. The prisoner is picked up and kept in the brig...
So I was wondering--in the 4th ST movie, The Voyage Home, they find out Earth is doomed because they killed off the whales 200 years ago. Kirk & Co. decide to go back in time to get whales, to bring back to the future, to communicate with the giant floating tube sock that's about to destroy earth. Not that I want the earth to be destroyed, but that seems a rather cavalier reason to...y'know, tear up time. It's not as though the universe was going to be destroyed, it's just Earth. Okay, that sounds bad. It's just that they weren't correcting an error--they were introducing one. I happen to love that installment (Duncan, you definitely need to watch it, it's hilarious) but it's something to consider.