Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Can't Sleep, Must Cough

I'm tired... I got this cough bout 12 days ago now and it's waking me up. My doctor doesn't like to give out anything that's slightly narcotic, but a little cough syrup with codine so I can sleep better medicine? Who's that hurting? Anyway, our family is in for a rough week. As of last night the descion was made that it's time to say goodbye to our friend. Our dog has reached the point were despite his joy to see us and wanting to eat food, he's slow and in pain and the cancer is winning. Our boy. He's getting ready to set out on his big journey I couldn't help but ask him, "Where are you going?"


This brought to mind something I heard on npr about Hawking radiation. 






specifically.... this idea got to me this is from the npr blurb about the fresh air interview...


"But Hawking postulated that if two individual particles were right at the edge of a black hole, and one of them happened to fall into the black hole, then the other particle could escape out into space, and appear as radiation being emitted from the black hole. Therefore, black holes could lose both mass and energy — and could, in fact, grow smaller.
Hawking's discovery raised many questions about what goes on inside black holes and our universe itself, says Ferguson.
"[His discovery raised questions like] 'What happens to the star that collapsed that formed the black hole? What happens to all of that when the black hole disappears entirely?' " she says. "And does this mean that this information is completely lost to our universe? And if it is ... to physics, that's a huge problem. Because if information can be lost from the universe, that's a violation of a law that says it can't disappear." 
So this opens up the spirituality can o worms....so I'll ask again.... Hey Bu, where you going?

Monday, January 9, 2012