Conservation

Dear reader, in this blog post I will discuss my recent departure from college and various developments in my life. And, for reasons unknown to science, or indeed to myself, I shall be using the conservation laws of quantum physics which are commonly found in the quark compositions of various Hadrons.

Before I begin my ramblings, I feel the need to explain these laws for those readers who perhaps are not familiar with them. During particle interactions, there are certain characteristics that must remain the same for the interaction to be possible, and these are governed by the nature of the particles component quarks; namely, the characteristics of charge, baryon number, lepton number and strangeness. This prevents Leptons (which do not contain quarks, and are hence "fundamental particles" from being able to decay into baryons, which are compromised of quarks. OK, everyone think that they have a basic understanding of that? Good, let us get down to my aimless ramblings.

Yesterday was my last day in college, and I am very sad to say goodbye to a place that I have been attending for the last seven years of my life. But I got to thinking about how some of my friends have already said goodbye to our old high school/college, and they are still some of my closest friends, maybe even this is helped by the fact that we do not get caught in the doldrums of daily routine t college, when we see each other, it has become an event, something special that I look forward to, more so than I did when we were seeing each other every day.

Perhaps my point is becoming clear to some of you? No? Me neither, then let us continue on this thought and see where it takes us. So our friendship has changed form, but has remained the same in certain aspects, which were what made us compatible as friends in the first place. All that I can do is hope that this theory works with all of my friends from college, and that they all keep in touch with me, as I shall do my damnedest to keep in close contact with them.
 I know that it will be difficult for us to remain as close friends as we were, but I feel that the friends I've made during my time at college truly deserve every effort on my part to retain contact, and ensure that our friendship does not die. As cliché as this sounds, I do truly love them all.

Entropy de la vie

The concept of entropy is defined by the second law of thermodynamics, which states that the entropy of an isolated system always increases or remains constant. Thus, entropy is also a measure of the tendency of a process, such as a chemical reaction, to be entropically favoured, or to proceed in a particular direction. Well, the reason that I'm talking about Entropy is a rather bizarre connection, even for this blog. It has really hit home to me today that I have a grand total of 3 days left at college full time, before I leave forever, and move on with the rest of my life and don't get me wrong, I'm sure that it will be fantastic at university. Its just I'm having trouble with the concept of not going to my college any more, I've been there for seven years of my life.

Herein lies my connection, Entropy, on both a universal and earthbound scale, is prone to increase, and that is kind of what I can see is happening to all of my friends at college, and indeed anyone going through the education system. You're still a little confused, right? OK, entropy is the tendency of a reaction or system, so if tendency increases, it is capable of doing more things, of becoming bigger and better things than it could previously, like the sand in a sand castle has a lower entropy than the sand blowing around on the sand dunes, because sand that is not in a fixed structure has more potential of "doing" things.

So I guess my point is that we're gaining a higher potential in our lives, we're becoming more capable of living our lives, and whilst that is an amazing thing, I cannot help but be a little apprehensive about what that entails for my future and the futures of all of my dear friends...

Technological Failings, along with the "Rapture"

Ok, so I know this post doesnt have a physics theme, but seeing as technology uses electricity and various wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum, I feel that it's a close enough topic to be able to discuss. 
So, essentially, technology hates me today, my laptop has restarted itself several times, and my phone has decided to not deliver texts, which is annoying, because i then resent them, they still didnt deliver, and later on the person I was texting will get like 7 or 8 texts. If you're reading this, I apologise sincerely.
 In other news, today is the day that the earth was supposed to end due to the "Rapture" and all of us unholy people were supposed to be being tortured by various demons and zombies and general undead badness, and as I'm sure you're all aware, any zombie activity tonight is at its usual level, so none whatsoever. Now, I'm also going to register my mirth at the idea that the world will end in 2012, and that people have decided that because the Mayan calendar only went up untill this year. Well, dear reader, I would have to remind you that the Mayans lived a very long time ago, 4000 years ago approximately, and to them, 2012 would have indeed seemed like an age away, and to them it might have seemed possible that the earth may not have lasted after that date, because they were nowhere near as scientifically advanced as us. Thats not to say that they weren't advanced, we know that they were, but surely it is more advisable to take the word of a modern scientist as to when the world will end than it is to heed the beliefs of a very ancient civilisation, without meaning to insult their culture in any way.
 So, yeah, this is my take upon technology failings and the general idea of an apocolypse. I tend to dislike both quite vehemently.
 

 je parle bein francais? vraiment, je pense que ces phrases seront très utiles, n'est pas?

love chinese lanterns.

Opening up the Box

I've been thinking a lot recently, about many things, and I'll use a very well known experiment to explain my train of thought upon the subjects of exams and romance. Let’s take the thought experiment that Erwin Schrödinger put forth to explain quantum entanglement, which became known as "Schrödingers cat". This experiment involved putting a cat (theoretically) inside a sealed container with a Geiger counter linked to a small radioactive source, such that might only decay one atom an hour, and the Geiger counter was set up to trigger a hammer to smash a container of poisonous gas, which would kill the cat.
Well, this means that, once the cat is sealed inside the container, one cannot know how many atoms have decayed at any point, thus we cannot know if the gas has been released or not. This in turn suggests that one could view the cat as both alive and dead once it is sealed in the box, and the only way we could be sure is to open the box.
The reason I've used this example is because I'm kind of interested in certain romantic prospects, but I have doubts as to whether or not it will work. The similarity struck between this situation and my romantic affairs because, no matter how many doubts I have, I will never know if it will work or not until I try it out, and so "open the box" on that possibility.
The exams are very much the same, because I cannot possibly work out how well I will be able to do until I sit the exams, or indeed until I receive my results.
So I can’t help but wonder if I do the right thing when I sit and try to calculate the possible outcomes. Perhaps I should just "open the box" upon the idea.

Advanced Apologies

Well, this is day two, and I've been thinking about what I can actually blog about. I reckon that I'm going to end up comparing life to various experiments and giving assorted views about life in general. So be prepared for comparisons to General Relativity and Newtons' Laws of Motion, and probably many more!! Obviously when (if) I get into University this blog might become more and more nerdy.
  I hope to keep this blog interesting though, so it wont be all geeky, I'll try to "keep it real"

Lets get stared

Well, this is my first ever blog. No idea what to write, so I'll just fill in a few blanks about myself shall I? Well, I'm 18 years old, and I am a student, hoping to go to University in September, where I want to study physics, which is the only thing that I've ever really had any desire to study at that level, most especially Astrophysics. I know that that sounds really geeky, but hey, it's what I love.
 Errrm I like lots of rock and metal music and love going to concerts. If you want to know more, just ask?