College

So when I woke up this morning it was to a my phone vibrating because of a message that a friend sent me. The message read "spent all morning cleaning raw sewage out my bathroom, bad times dude". My first reaction was to think of how literally shitty that situation is. I was thankful I didn't have to clean this morning.

I live in Boston, MA in an apartment building shared with numerous amounts of college kids who run wild on weekends that start with thursday and end late sunday night. College kids who drink in ignorance of tomorrow's hangover, college kids who are already spending tomorrow's money fast. Once a college kid is loaded their night most likely ends up on or in the toilet some way or the other. If not well god damn it you didn't accomplish the task at hand when buying that case of booze, did you?

Besides money could you imagine what we all literally flush down the toilet? Almost every bodily fluid would be on the floor of your apartment and than some, the smell hitting you in the face with a wall of filth so pungent it induces immediate gag reflex. This would trigger the realization that you have to clean everything that has been ingested in your apartment building from the past month or so. Physically, you have to bend over and clean this gigantic shit puddle amongst your living space.

How have we not perfected the technology of the toilet, wouldn't it be nice to say in 2010 "this toilet is a sewage spewing safe toilet and there for can not ruin my life by spewing shit puddles onto my floor"?

The Electro Pop Wave

Inspirations take deep root in the fashion sense categorized with terms such as "indie-pop" or "new wave", and even "indie new wave". The sounds of the more recognizable modern electro pop bands such as MGMT and Empire of the Sun create smooth waves of ecstasy that are delivered into your skull via ear drums. Because of this a huge buzz will ring in your head and it wont leave until you forget how the songs go. This is electro pop, and yes it has created a self titled wave of curiosity and pleasure.

This morning I turned on the television to discover a Vizio HDTV ad that ran to the soundtrack of a chorus line from Empire of the Sun's song We Are the People, which with out a doubt is a catchy tune especially when put to the bright colors and contrasts the ad had going for it.

Fact is, electro-pop sells and that is what these bands are all about, selling an image and getting their music stuck in your head. I'm not labeling either band as sell outs but just commenting on the marketing both have and how plausible/profitable selling out would be. Electro pop can be considered creative and very melodious, even engaging, first time I listened to MGMT I found myself humming along to the chorus. My head really hasn't been the same since my first listen but Im glad I listened.

Theoretically speaking of course.. . . ... .. . ...

"But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."

- Albert Einstein

Michio Kaku is the understood mind, and (due to popularity) face of theoretical physics. He believes we are not to far away from grasping ground breaking ideas such as invisibility and time travel, in matter of fact only a couple centuries he predicts.

Through elegant yet simply put scientific examples Michio enables the average reader to understand the exploration in one of today's most complex fields of science, Physics.

Michio is greatly influenced by the knowledge of Albert Einstein, and the abstract ideas that films such as Back To the Future conveyed. Michio since childhood is always reaching for the higher shelf of understanding with hand and mind, but once he reaches to far its smacked down by the inevitable laws physics.

Michio presents an interesting idea, the goal for all of science is to fuse together all knowledge and truly grasp the world as a whole. To discover and prove the mathematical equation that gives us our universe, and existence would take our understanding of the universe to a supreme level beyond anything understood in human history. Many scientists have attempted to scratch the itch created by questions of the universe's understanding but most times leads to driving them mad in a personal fury to answer questions meant for god. Could this be tapping into what great philosophers such as Kant, Hume, and Locke wrote about when discussing the concrete connection found between experience and knowledge?

In conclusion we are bound to know what we experience day to day, but can we learn from such experiences formed in a lab about worm holes and parallel universes? No, to me it seems a proper perspective is needed to understand more, a perspective we do not hold as humans but gods.