Today is a momentous Day:\u00a0 This is post number one-hundred.\u00a0 In the long run, that doesn’t really mean much.\u00a0 Even in the short view, there shouldn’t be that much significance, as this blog is a continuation of the one I had over on MySpace.\u00a0 I don’t know my count over there–MySpace doesn’t show me that information easily–but I am pretty sure I made several hundred posts before moving to this address.<\/p>\n
Counting itself is a bit arbitrary.\u00a0 Sure, this is post is number one-hundred in the decimal system, but that’s not the only number system used today.\u00a0 In hex, this is post 64.\u00a0 Not so exciting now, eh?\u00a0 Still, we humans like such arbitrary designations.\u00a0 Many people who like to comment on things–blog posts other than mine, news stories, etc.–like to be the first to post.\u00a0 It’s not unusual to see the first comment on something simply say “First!” and nothing else.<\/p>\n
Going a little deeper, time itself is a bit arbitrary.\u00a0 Scientists look at time as the fourth dimension, but I think of time as the first<\/em> dimension.\u00a0 A thing cannot exist without time.\u00a0 It can had length, height and width, but without time these things are meaningless.\u00a0 Something has to be<\/em> for some length of time<\/em> before it can be said that thing ever was.\u00a0 I know, that’s a little weird to run through the mind, but think about it for a moment and maybe you’ll see what I mean.<\/p>\n Consider this:\u00a0 We see time as a linear thing.\u00a0 Imagine a line, then, which stretches forever in both directions.\u00a0 This is a basic geometry concept, so hopefully it’s not too difficult.\u00a0 Now imagine another line.\u00a0 In order to do this, one of two things is true:\u00a0 Either the second line is the same as the first, or we have introduced a second dimension.\u00a0 Since having the second line be the same as the first is kind of boring–nothing unique here; it’s already been done–let’s have this second line give us a second dimension.\u00a0 In fact, for added excitement, we’ll have this second line cross the first.\u00a0 Geometry tells us if the lines are straight, they will meet at exactly one point.\u00a0 Now we add a third line.\u00a0 It doesn’t run parallel to either of the first two lines, so one of two things is true:\u00a0 Either it will intersect both, or it is a third dimension and might intersect only one or even none of them.<\/p>\n So now we have three dimensions.\u00a0 Can we add a fourth?\u00a0 At this point, geometry becomes very complicated.\u00a0 I suggest instead to imagine that fourth dimension a little differently.\u00a0 I see it as being a one-dimensional line super-imposed on the picture, one which may seem to touch one or more of the existing lines but does not.\u00a0 Or perhaps this line has infinite thickness, so it touches all<\/em> of the lines at all points.\u00a0 The first three lines can move about within this infinitely thick line.\u00a0 This makes more sense to me.\u00a0 The dimension was there all along.\u00a0 The first line was inside of it, and thus was really the second dimension.\u00a0 The second line was the third dimension and the last line the fourth.\u00a0 Our three dimensional creation moves through the first dimension.<\/p>\n We are closing in on the end of a calendar year.\u00a0 This is as arbitrary as it gets; the universe cares little for how we mark time.\u00a0 Movement in that first dimension continues on regardless of how we measure it.\u00a0 Personally, I would like to see the calendar reorganized.\u00a0 I would have weeks be ten days long.\u00a0 Three days of each week would be the “weekend.”\u00a0 Each month would be exactly four weeks long.\u00a0 This leaves five or six days left over at the end of the year, but this could be called Transition Time or something like that.\u00a0 I would start the new year around the Vernal Equinox, when nature has things being reborn.\u00a0 Yes, I know the southern hemisphere is going the opposite direction, but most of the world’s population lives in the northern hemisphere.\u00a0 I would also redo the clock to be decimal or hexadecimal based, but I haven’t really worked that part out yet.<\/p>\n So what does this arbitrary designation mean?\u00a0 On Friday, I’ll have my usual poem, but as it is the last day of the year, I will also have a very personal month-by-month review of the 2010.\u00a0 On Saturday, I will post my resolutions for 2011.\u00a0 New Year’s day is not conveniently falling on a weekday, so I will make a Saturday post.\u00a0 It is significant to me, but on the other hand it’s very random.\u00a0 If the calendar were arranged the way I want it to be, one of “this” year’s tragedies–Danny’s death–would have occurred last<\/em> year.\u00a0 In fact, there are a variety of calendars out there which use a variety of dates<\/a> to start a year.<\/p>\n For the moment, though, I will follow the Gregorian calendar with all the accepted adjustments in place.\u00a0 Oh, yes, that’s another thing:\u00a0 Our calendar has gone through a few changes over the years.\u00a0 Every few years, it gets adjusted again by a second when it is determined that the Earth is a second off in its orbit of the sun from what our clocks are telling us.\u00a0 Nothing’s perfect, and our measurement of time is definitely less than consistent.<\/p>\n And so I will look to the future, however it is designated.\u00a0 In that timespace known as tomorrow, I will have a short list of wanderings for you to peruse.\u00a0 I haven’t found as much that tickles my sharing fancy as usual, but I have a couple of Stumbled bits for you.\u00a0 See you then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today is a momentous Day:\u00a0 This is post number one-hundred.\u00a0 In the long run, that doesn’t really mean much.\u00a0 Even in the short view, there shouldn’t be that much significance, as this blog is a continuation of the one I had over on MySpace.\u00a0 I don’t know my count over there–MySpace doesn’t show me that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":268,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267\/revisions\/268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.shadowkatmandu.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}