22.10.03

I rather like that chatterbox. Weasel weasel! Fantastic.

chem midterm tomorrow. it's late. Should go to bed. but, i've got laundry drying in south tower. plus, hey, not much is going down in the next 12 hours.... just german at 10:30 and then lunch with jfrey, so there will be plenty of time to sleep/study/whatever. I love making up my own hours of operation.

But we used to do experiments where you tested it. We decided to test the Theory of Relativity. Jeff got a torch and stood on his side of the room. Now Jeff, switch the torch on and shout ‘’go,’ and I will time how long it takes to see the light and the speed... Hold on, if you say ‘go,’ that’s speed of sound, and I would hear that after I’ve seen the light, so say ‘go’ slightly earlier, and you time how early you’ve… Oh, it’s a million miles an hour! I said a million billion… no one can tell! No one can run that fast! And mass… can you weigh the torch for the mass, please? Can you weigh it in a vacuum? Can you weigh it near a vacuum, then? You can weigh it near a vacuum cleaner, that’s great! 4.5 fluid ounces… And that is the energy in cat’s per squared ironing board… And so where are the batteries? Wallop, wallop, wallop…” Then you write it all in a project, and you put water on it, dry it off with a hairdryer and give it in. “It’s kind of blurry…” “Oh, it was the rain!”
Eddie Izzard
- Definite Article

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