Good News & Bad News: Prelude to the sequel "F@*k You, Do Better"

Good news: Everything is Relative. Bad news: Everything is Relative.

"Are all of your titles going to be the same?" Keep asking questions. It will get you super far in life. So you might be feeling like you started to really figure life out. Either you are enjoying my writing so far or are three seconds away from abandoning this book. Now that you feel like you got things settled, let me take that feeling and throw it right out the window along with your belief in colors. And yes I'm ignoring the question, why, because it's relative. I know bad nerd joke but it had to be done.

So if you're familiar with Einstein's theory of relativity you passed your physics class. Well, I'm going to give you an intro you the quantum level of thinking about that question. I would like to say that I'll give you an intro to quantum physics as a whole but I'm not a qualified professor and frankly, your belief in my knowledge of physics is reactive to my writing in this chapter. On a side note, I'm going to add in questions that you can stop and think about throughout this chapter as a helpful aid in getting through understanding what I'm saying. (Is this the first question I've asked in this chapter? if so is it because of the parentheses? If not does a question need to have a question mark at the end of it?) I hope you enjoy the journey.

So to summarize the theory. Any event that is observed is relative to the observer. A common example used to demonstrate the thought process is the one with two men and a bus or train. We'll use a bus just to keep it simple. (Why is a bus simpler than a train? How long did you think about that question in comparison to how long it took me to write it? How important was the first question in this question section) So a man is on a bus and the other man is on the ground watching the bus pass. The man on the bus throws a ball. How fast is the ball traveling? Those of you who passed your physic class most likely asked how fast is the bus traveling. You know that the speed of the ball is relative to how fast the bus is traveling. You assume you're observing from the perspective of the man watching the bus. So the question then breaks up into two questions. Are we asking from the perspective of the man on the bus or the man on the ground? However, according to the theory, there is no real answer to this question. You are still right. The speed of the ball is relative to perspective. If you're asking from the point of view of the man on the bus than it might be 3 mph. If it's from the perspective of the man on the ground it would be 3mph plus the speed of the bus. There are however more perspectives to observe. If we observe it from the perspective of a man out in space then the ball is traveling 3 mph plus the speed of the bus plus the speed of the earth's rotation. There's also the speed of the rotation around the sun, our solar system's rotation, the Milky Way's rotation, etc. The perspective expansion can continue on to infinity. (If perspective can be continuously, is the ball moving?) In short, the true speed of the ball can never really be determined. If you wanted to reach an answer for the speed of the ball at all you would have to pick a perspective and work from that point. Catching a ball going 3 mph is easy if it is actually traveling that fast in reference to your speed because you have to remember you would also be affected by the bus the earth and so on if those were forces acting on you.

Now that you know a little bit about the theory let's go into a real-world example. Electrons are both particles and waves. That statement can confuse a lot of people if taken as is, so let's explore it a little. Electrons are one of the things that make up everything in our known universe. They are in every atom. So how can something that makes up everything be two things at once? Most things are either a particle or a wave. Elections are both and that's what makes everything relative. You can not track an electron's position and velocity at the same time. You can know how fast an electron is traveling at a point in time but not its potion. You can find its position at a point in time but not its speed. The values needed to find both its velocity and position cannot be tracked in one measurement. Electrons have a range at which they are likely to be around a nucleus. So to dive into that further we know where certain electrons could be on an atom at any point in time. In short, we can almost never tell where an electron actually is or how it travels around an atom. At any point in time, an electron can have the same properties as a particle and then at the next moment act like a wave and have those properties. The way an electron moves is relative to the point at which they are being observed. This means we can never really be sure if the world is made of many electrons or just one in multiple places at once. It is very possible that the entire world is made of just one electron move changing and being multiple things at one time. ( Are you still questioning the existence of color or have you moved on to bigger questions?)

So why would I explain all this stuff about science and make you question whether you even exist to read this next sentence? Well given that everything is relative. Perspective is key in living in this world. If your a passenger on the bus and the ball is thrown at you at 3mph, you can think all you want about the relative the existence of yourself and the ball is but that doesn't change the fact that if you don't do something the pain will feel much more real than you might. The bad news is perspective is what causes all of the world problems. If you had no frame of reference you couldn't function in the world so the only reference you can trust if your own. Not understanding that everyone works like that is what causes conflict. You can argue about the concept of the color blue all day but that doesn't make the color actually blue. You never know what color it really is and you can never check. (Is color that important? Did I call you a narcissist just to get to this chapter?) All you can do is work from your perspective but even that is relative.

When you were younger your favorite toy meant the world to you. It was the thing that would outlast the world in your mind, from your perspective. Now the toy is but a fawn memory that you probably lost at the park one day and got over really fast. This very common example explains that even your perspective can change. That your perspective is relative to the time at which you had it, where you were and who you were. Everything in this world is relative. Time is relative at least the experience of time is. Some days feel like they last for weeks. Some weeks feel like they're gone in seconds. Time is a measurement created by humans to help ground our perspective. It doesn't exist. An inch doesn't exist it's just a tool of communication. There are a lot of tools of communication that don't exist. (Am I really doing to make you question words through the use of words?)

Let's take a look at what words are. Originally words were pictures that we used to communicate. They helped us understand what the other was trying to convey in a more uniformed way. We all understood that we called the thing we have on top of our shoulders, a head. Then we all tried to draw the same picture when referring to it. Then you had the alphabet, it was still pictures, for the most part, but now if you didn't have a picture for it you can combine more than one picture to elaborate of what you wanted to express. Later those pictures became more abstract and then became letters. Letter and language differ from place to place. If you look at the concept of it all you'll find something really rather interesting. Right now if I describe to you my mother's homemade cooking you would start to smell the food cooking in the kitchen. You would feel the warmth of the evening and of my home. You would feel the somewhat hard seat under you while feeling a sense of welcome. You would bring up images of what you thought your house would look like. So from start words were pictures and then has the moved away from pictures they still carry the essence of them. If you really think about it though it's not the images that those words carry, it's the feeling, the concept behind the images which makes the difference. A picture is worth a thousand words but only because you need a thousand to accurately describe how the image makes you feel. Maybe that cute picture of a cat has the overall feeling of cute to it but if you tried to go deeper you might find yourself writing an essay about one cat picture. If you told ten people to do this you'd find they will likely have different essays as well. Some focusing on their childhood experiences while others would focus on an awkward memory of high school. How a cat would relate to your teen years is none of my business but the point is that feeling is relative to the observer as concepts work through the experience. So a sentence can be read many different ways by different people. In fact, as you learn and grow the same sentence can be read by the same person in a different way. Which is why reading a book again after years can bring a whole new light to it. Words never really existed as they were only another tool to communicate feelings of different things. It started from pictures then went full circle and now bring up images inside your own head, so much so, that it makes it so you sometimes forget your reading a book. Your mind thinks, if just for a moment, you were sitting in my home about to share in my mother's home cooking. (What was my mother making by chance? If your best friend read this same chapter, would they have thought of a different meal?) In a world where some readers can't read the start of this sentence without hearing a deep voice introducing a movie, words can be used in many different ways to connect people through their narcissistic, or self-centered, experience of the world so that they may better deal with it. Everything is flowing as everything is relative. We try so hard to make sense of the world so that we can find something that we're looking for. ( How long are you going to question the color blue? Have you realized that red exists just as much as blue?)