Speaking of people trying to make connections between things, I've noticed there's a lot of this going on with people using physics to make their point.
Example 1: On my way back from Flagstaff (yeah, I'm talking last summer), my road trip crew stopped off in central California and stayed with a lady who was one of the most 'holistic' people I've met. I had a bad headache from the full day in the car, and immediately she rubbed some oils into my temples. Five minutes later I was feeling somewhat better (and slightly amazed that it worked).
Upon hearing my testimony, Joel, who had been having some real problems with his ankle of late, struck up a conversation with this lady. The result was a post-dessert ankle massage, complete with oils and an explanation of the techniques she was using.
In her estimation, his ankle was having trouble healing beacuse, as she put it, the network of 'fibers of life' were having trouble reconnecting. Her solution was to rub certain oils in that would help. Here was the real trip though: she said that everything in the universe (our bodies included) operated on certain frequencies, and that these oils helped amplify certain frequencies that correspond to the healing of certain parts of the body.
Her substantiation for why we should take it all seriously went something like this: "If you don't believe me on this, just look into the physics of it - this is all the newest stuff that they're discovering in Quantum Physics. It has to do with how the whole universe works. It's all there."
Now, as a physicist in training myself, I just sat there and listened to her babble on like a fool while my friends tossed me sideways glances. I knew that if I had announced myself a person of that school she would have tried to find some connection with me. But do you see my point?
Speaking of 'fibers' there's supposed to be a NOVA show on PBS tonight about string theory which promises to be pretty interesting. I think I may be checking that out. That's at 8pm.
With that though, I'm going to head to school to do my quantum homework. Hopefully I'll have some homework problem that will teach me how to heal this whole 'work' problem I've been having to deal with for the past few months . . .
Fucking hippies.
Posted by: jackattack at October 28, 2003 8:06 PM