music: Mad Dog Trio- Ex Nihilo
One conclusion resulting from a bit of quasi-impulsive reality testing this past weekend, submitted for approval:
One of the most elegant equations in Newtonian physics is also one of the simplest and most widely known: rate is a function of distance and time. This equation describes the motion of objects through space; it gives us a way to describe speed. I have come to realize as of late that this equation applies equally to human relationships, except that the rate of relationship, I think, also refers to its quality (which is a generally constant value decided upon by factors far too complex to model quantitatively), and distance and time fluctuate in inverse proportion accordingly. Which is unfortunate.
This, of cousre, fails to take into account the more modern Einsteinean model which states that rate, or quality, is responsible for the dilation of both distance and time. Which makes things a little more interesting.
I’m happy to say that before any other conclusions are reached, more data will need to be collected. Applied mechanics is nothing if not thorough, and this researcher is nothing if not patient.
Posted by davidtaus at January 10, 2004 11:26 PM