Monday, July 04, 2005

[What if] Changes

Everything changes

Everything? You've heard the cliches: The times have changed. Things change. People change. But does everything really change? What about the laws of physics? Will Heisenburg be able to one day not resent knowing the exact momentum of his car keys? (Quantum physics joke. See: Heisengburg's uncertainty principal)

What if the laws of physics, which form the very structure of our existence, are not constant but are changing over time? What would this mean? What once was deemed impossible, now is in the realm of possibility. On the flip side, things that were possible in the past may not be anymore.

What if these changes happened extremely rapidly? Instead of slight changes over millenia, what is possible changes daily. A tantalizingly chaotic world where each new day really is filled with unlimited possibilities.

Leap tall buildings in a single bound? Sure, why not?

Dance on rays of sunlight? Did it yesterday.

Walk through a wormhole to the other side of the galaxy? Maybe tomorrow.

A few years ago, I might have ran with this idea and develop it into a short story or essay of some kind. Today, I'll just blog it and file it in my mind under "pointless time waster" along with my plans of a pilot for a Friends spin-off based on Gunther (which they should have done originally instead of a Joey spin-off.)

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