Okay, Lazlow, MOCKery will get you nowhere. I think I might hit you now.

I started spacing out in my Physics exam today.

I mean, literally spacing out.

It was a question about space.

I was just staring at the paper and thoughts flew through my mind.



'Wow, space is just so big.'

'We are just so small.'

'Look, we are just a speck on the speck on the speck on the cosmos.'

'Really, would the big picture be affected if we just exploded now?'

'Nothing anybody does will ever really matter.'

'Everything is going to be forgotten eventually.'

'We're just a bunch of rotting matter on a piece of rock eternally plumeting through the dark cosmos.'



That last thought was the most unsettling. I actually considered holding onto my desk. You know, for protection. But then the most depressing thought of all hit me:



'If nothing matters and there are no long term consequences to anything... why the fuck am I doing this exam?'



Shit, man, scary days.



I have also discovered an amazing secret to Physics. In fact, to most of the sciences. Once you boil it down to the most simple, atomic particle level, as small as it gets... it still doesn't make any sense. Just playing the 'why' game can piss off a physics teacher after enough questions.

Eg:

"Generators create energy which can then be passed along to..."

"Why?"

"Why what? Why do they create energy, or why are they passed along?"

"Well, both. Why do they create energy?"

"Well, its through the cutting of the flux lines..."

"Yeah, but why does that create energy?"

"Well, its through..."

"And on that matter, how does energy even work?"

"What?"

"Well, how does electrical energy make things work?"

"Well, its through the process of coulombs, flowing through a wire..."

"Yeah, but how do the coulombs move?"

"Well, they are propulsed by the battery."

"I don't get it. How does this propulsion occur?"

"Well, like charges attract, unlike charges repel."

"Explain that. The physics of how this works."

"Well, it just does."

"Yeah, but there has to be a reason. It can't just arbitrarily work."

"Well, uh..."

"And what makes something charged?"

"Well, its protons and electrons."

"What makes them charged?"

"Um, positrons and quarks."

"What makes those charged?"

"Um."

"So basically, you have no idea how any of this works."

"Yeah, we do."

"Not on a basic level, though. You have NO idea why, at its lowest denominator, any of this works."

"Uh..."

"Its like space scientists. Smart as you are, you aint gonna find a reason for HOW IT ALL BEGAN."

"Yes, but



I'm going to stop that there, as I have just realised that I am having a long physics debate with myself over the internet. Now excuse me, I'm off to do something less painful, like sticking my finger into the shredder.



Toodles.



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