Here's your homework assignment for this week. But if you're anything like me, it'll take you a good while longer than a week to get it all internalized.
Thinking about things like String Theory and other Quantum-y stuff usually gives me a pounding headache. So, I try instead to think about what was going on in people's heads in the 17th century when Newton was trying to introduce his new ways of doing things. And it occurs to me: the TeaBaggers of that time resisted all this revolutionary thinking the same as they do now. It's not much to hang onto, but I have to remember that time is actually on our side. Evolution doesn't care if you "believe" in it or not. The surest path to extinction is to defy the natural order of cause and effect. Adapt; Improvise; Overcome. If you don't learn, you don't change. And if you don't change, you die.
Thinking about things like String Theory and other Quantum-y stuff usually gives me a pounding headache. So, I try instead to think about what was going on in people's heads in the 17th century when Newton was trying to introduce his new ways of doing things. And it occurs to me: the TeaBaggers of that time resisted all this revolutionary thinking the same as they do now. It's not much to hang onto, but I have to remember that time is actually on our side. Evolution doesn't care if you "believe" in it or not. The surest path to extinction is to defy the natural order of cause and effect. Adapt; Improvise; Overcome. If you don't learn, you don't change. And if you don't change, you die.
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