As I was on the final stretch of my morning walk a small plane flew overhead. It was climbing out of Fullerton airport and was at a fairly low altitude. A funny though came to mind. I have committed never to fly again because of the risk involved. Suppose that airplane had lost its power and glided to a landing where I was standing and hit me. Imagine the irony of being killed by an airplane on the ground! It didn't happen though. It continued on its merry way. And I completed my walk very aware of the tragedy I had just avoided.
The temperature in Oshkosh Wisconsin is 32 degrees. Just at freezing. Oshkosh is the mecca of small planes, particularly of home built planes such as mine was. But 32 is too cold for all but the most dedicated to flight. I was comfortable in Fullerton with a sweat shirt for my walk.
I finished the book by Leonard Susskind and his thoughts on the recent advances in string theory (or brane theory). At one point in his discussion he suggests that the elementary particles which comprise our universe are HOLOGRAMS! Which brings me back to the 1980 book "The Holographic Universe". The book was written by Micheal Talbot, a physicist who later died at a young age of a brain tumor. It certainly changed the way I look at the word around me. Imagine...... everything around you is but an ephemeral hologram But of what is the hologram comprised? Shades of Star Wars.
Holograms are physical proof that we're all on this flight together.
Dick
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