Beautiful Day

It was windy and chilly today, which made the day glassy clear, and the sunshine warm.

After doing some research, and sending my resume out and answering a few calls (related to work), I went to have a simple lunch (just garlic bread and tomatoe, the Russian Soup was unavailable), and then went to Starbucks where I studied The Elegant Universe.
I'm going to dedicate a page in my diary to New Vocabulary. Krakauer's book stunned me also because he used a lot of words that I haven't seen in a while, some that I have never seen.

Relativity has been interesting. I learned today that gravity moves at lightspeed, and the mechanism, or agent for gravity is movement, or acceleration. It makes sense when you know the answer. For example, if you imagine that the Earth is tethered to the Sun (as a way to visualise gravity), and you imagined the sun exploding, then you'd expect the Earth to immediately sway away, instantaneously and immediately, which would violate the law that says 'nothing moves faster than the speed of light, no object, no force, nothing'. As it turns out, the sun effects the space around it, its mass bends it, and the Earth basically swings around this curvature. Relativity is easy to understand retrospectively (looking back), but is quite mysterious when you are faced with a question like: 'what is the mechanism by which gravity works?', and don't know the answer.

Quantum Mechanics though, has left me feeling dizzy and lightheaded. To put it in layman's terms, Harry Potter and Ron leaving the station by 'entering' the wall at plafrom 9 and a half actually becomes plausible, actually is possible, on a microscopic scale. The author goes so far as to say that if you attempted to walk through a random wall, say in your vicinity, it would be possible eventually, on the scale we are in now, but you'd take a while to pull it off, longer than your lifetime, or the lifetime of the universe, but eventually, you'd get it right. As I said, quite hard to figure out.

Having looked at Hitler, Stalin, and then heroic intellectuals and champions, like Einstein, Krakauer, Alexander The Great, I feel like I am trying to understand, and focussing on the qualities that make people great.

I also feel a strange sense of resistance to enter into work, because I think I am loathe to surrender control over my existence. I feel I would far rather be in control, direct my own life, and there are plenty of ideas to employ and develop into a business. Do I therefore lack the wherewithal to do so, do I lack trust in myself, or in my environment?
I have a few different Business Ideas which I need to flesh out, even if just on paper or in my mind, and see where they lead.

Tonight we are having cooked sushi (yup, I know what that sounds like) somewhere in LaFesta with Ashleigh and Ave. Should be good.