This evening I watered my plants before tomorrow’s one day heat wave of
near 90° F. Earlier today I watched part
of Richard Feynman’s physics lectures done by the BBC
at Cornell in 1964 (One of the world’s all-time great physics professors. Feynman is the man on the Space Shuttle Challenger
inquiry board that stuck a black rubber band in ice-water incontrovertibly
explaining frozen rubber bands do not make good gaskets for rocket fuel.) Played
around with wire wrapping and beading.
Sandy went to Central Welding Supply in Redmond to look at torches with
me after lunch. My car started and drove
in its usually reliably way. Made dirty
rice with Hawaiian chicken and pineapple.
I am grateful for how the 4 fundamental forces (gravity,
electromagnetism, weak & strong nuclear force) of the Standard Model of the
Universe interact to make the universe as we know it so that I can water my plants,
drive my car, breathe air, enjoy lunch, and look at pretty things. The 95% of the Universe’s mass-energy
contained in dark matter and energy presumably also makes our life better—somehow…
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