Wandering off topic.

[G-Unit]

But is it rubbish?  When you think how we've evolved from a swampy marsh isn't it remarkable we can sit 000's of miles apart tapping on an electronic device to communicate albeit rubbish!?

I think our communcation options are amazing and have hope that it will change the world as people realise how alike they are even though they live in different countries with different regimes, customs and religions. If that wasn't a possibility repressive regimes wouldn't stop their citizens from taking part.

Unfortunately our 'advances' have endangered our planet imo so our future isn't guaranteed anyway.

[Holly Goodhead]

I have always read fiction voraciously. It's my pleasure, my hobby and my comfort. I love Shakespeare, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy and William Golding and dislike Jane Austen and Tolkein.

The only academic writer who thoroughly impressed me was Karl Marx. His economic predictions were correct. In the 1850's he predicted that China would be forced to adopt the capitalist methods of production, for example. They certainly have!

I admire scientific writers, but find them difficult to understand. I once nearly grasped the theory of relativity, but not quite...

My comfort is nature and beer 

[G-Unit]

Well it just shows then you can't judge a book by its cover!

I rarely read books just newspapers and magazines like the National Geographic, Economist and New Scientist.

Perhaps it's because you can't look into my eyes. 

[Eleanor]

I have always read fiction voraciously. It's my pleasure, my hobby and my comfort. I love Shakespeare, the Brontes, Thomas Hardy and William Golding and dislike Jane Austen and Tolkein.

The only academic writer who thoroughly impressed me was Karl Marx. His economic predictions were correct. In the 1850's he predicted that China would be forced to adopt the capitalist methods of production, for example. They certainly have!

I admire scientific writers, but find them difficult to understand. I once nearly grasped the theory of relativity, but not quite...

Even they are working on Opinions, so don't be fooled.

The Theory of Relativity is only to do with how it relates to anything else, if in fact it does.  It depends on what it is being related to.  If it is to do with some other Planet or some other Sense then it is seriously relative.  Or actually not that important.  Prove it to me.

[G-Unit]

My comfort is nature and beer 

My husband was interested in nature. We watched David Attenborough since the 1960's. I developed an interest in British wildlife when I realised how much I didn't notice. We had a narrowboat and my husband would see foxes, rabbits and birds but even when he told me I couldn't always see them. He taught me how to look. He had learned from his Dad and his uncles. Like many miners they liked to be out in nature when not working.

[Holly Goodhead]

I think our communcation options are amazing and have hope that it will change the world as people realise how alike they are even though they live in different countries with different regimes, customs and religions. If that wasn't a possibility repressive regimes wouldn't stop their citizens from taking part.

Unfortunately our 'advances' have endangered our planet imo so our future isn't guaranteed anyway.

Yes in the UK we have the Institute for Strategic Dialogue which has been involved in attempting to control disinformation online about Covid but still needs to be mindful of freedom of expression:

https://www.isdglobal.org/isdapproach/

[G-Unit]

Even they are working on Opinions, so don't be fooled.

The Theory of Relativity is only to do with how it relates to anything else, if in fact it does.  It depends on what it is being related to.  If it is to do with some other Planet or some other Sense then it is seriously relative.  Or actually not that important.  Prove it to me.

Don't ask me, I don't understand it either. I know it's E = MC2, or energy is equal to matter multiplied by the speed of light squared.

[Holly Goodhead]

Don't ask me, I don't understand it either. I know it's E = MC2, or energy is equal to matter multiplied by the speed of light squared.

Have you read the popular science books Hawkins and Cox?

[Eleanor]

Don't ask me, I don't understand it either. I know it's E = MC2, or energy is equal to matter multiplied by the speed of light squared.

 Really?  Gosh.  You mean that we are all somewhere else?  Now that might be relative to where we are and where we aren't but I can't get off on this.  I am here.

Is this to do with Time Travel?  If so, call me later.  It isn't logical.

[G-Unit]

Have you read the popular science books Hawkins and Cox?

I'm afraid not. Science makes my brain hurt, although Cox fascinates me on TV.

[Caroline]

Really?  Gosh.  You mean that we are all somewhere else?  Now that might be relative to where we are and where we aren't but I can't get off on this.  I am here.

Is this to do with Time Travel?  If so, call me later.  It isn't logical.

We are moving through space all of the time so 'here' is never  the same place. 

[G-Unit]

We are moving through space all of the time so 'here' is never  the same place. 

The stars we can see in the sky now no longer exist either because of the time it takes for their light to reach us, is that right?

[Caroline]

The stars we can see in the sky now no longer exist either because of the time it takes for their light to reach us, is that right?

Some of them - I don't pretend to be an expert on this but I believe the fact that we are moving through space would make time travel impossible because we would have to travel back to the same space in time in order to do so. It's kind of brain frying stuff 

[G-Unit]

Some of them - I don't pretend to be an expert on this but I believe the fact that we are moving through space would make time travel impossible because we would have to travel back to the same space in time in order to do so. It's kind of brain frying stuff 

It certainly fries mine.

[Eleanor]

We are moving through space all of the time so 'here' is never  the same place. 

Well now, I am till here.  Or is this only relative to where I was half a second ago. Ad Infinitum.