sand water sky

# 21
two miles from being my life-long ambition
a beach bum

please don't litter

Authorities thought that they had found pieces from the recent deadly Air France flight 447 crash - what they found was a floating island of trash - mostly plastic. I've heard it's bigger than a continent. There is not a way to measure accurately, as pieces and masses are found floating in the Pacific from the US to China. Fish and birds stomachs have been found full of plastic bits, it's in our food chain. Plastic does not biodegrade; plastic is proven to contain toxins.

http://mnn.com/earth-matters/translating-uncle-sam/stories/what-is-the-great-pacific-ocean-garbage-patch





Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Brought to you as a public service announcement, by someone who cares, and thinks that she should do more to honor her mother, Earth.

spring

finally some green
to go with the sun and babbling stream
and bless all the noisy bikers too

changes

10 days ago ^

today, at almost the same spot

Carmina Burana

An ex-Latin scholar nods her head to the beat as the poetry and music flow...

brook zen

nostalgia

What foods are selling well in America?
Big Macs,
Campbell’s soup,
Hershey’s chocolate
and



Spam

winter's day

allusions from new illusions
something is wrong
nothing matters

a master juggler plays it out
in a world of random chaos
gravity catches on
a solitary bird sings a song
of a joy never in doubt

a mind deliquesces
lean against the wind
find solace in the susurrus

Deus ex Machina

Not sure why I like this so much; probably lots of reasons.


Toybox

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Ilmatar

when a spirit aches
and has been broken
time and time again
silent tears etch trails
of aether sadness
in faint smile lines
lost in the way it happens

cold and bitter winds
howl like one forsaken
frozen rain beats
out the time of pain
with no rhyme nor reason
still perhaps
beauty's found in madness

and so the wanderer goes on
as if it matters
as if she cares
a follower of moon and sun
aware of the rare chance it does


found this link while on a search for a title to the poem, then the vid
http://www.sibelius.fi/english/musiikki/ork_luonnotar.htm




warning - it's opera, but the music is awesome

light

the speed of light stays the same in all frames


mathematically, distance moves with your speed

lengths change and clocks run at different times in different frames -- for real


the time between...as we measure...



an electromagnetic wave

light - time varying electric and magnetic fields

EM radiation carries energy and momentum, which may be imparted when it interacts with matter.

A wave consists of successive troughs and crests, and the distance between two adjacent crests or troughs is called the wavelength. Waves of the electromagnetic spectrum vary in size, from very long radio waves the size of buildings to very short gamma rays smaller than atom nuclei.

the closer together the waves are, the higher the frequency


1 hertz is the approximate frequency of a human heart (Herz in German language)



Einstein thoughts on special relatity:

if you run alongside the e-wave, the electric and magnetic fields will be static (not changing in time) but the wave shape will be varying with where you are.

Maxwell's equations (Maxwell's Electromagnetic Theory) do not allow such a solution, if the fields are varying in space, they also must vary in time.

Einstein therefore concluded that nothing he could do could put him on pace with the light beam. From this he concluded that the electromagnetic wave was a special kind of wave in nature, one which does not require a medium in which to move, and therefore that all observers must see it moving with the same speed, regardless of their own speeds; this is the fundamental postulate of special relativity.




http://www.music.sc.edu/fs/bain/atmi02/fusion/index.html

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