Natural Thoughts

Learning something new every day isn’t very difficult simply by observing the natural world and with the aid of the internet education is almost limitless.  Interestingly enough I decided to question infinity as it relates to the universe and I learned that to date the universe appears to have a flat topography which means it would indeed be infinite (rather than having a curvature which means it would move in on itself).  I love the idea of infinity since I find the concept challenging to one’s mindset.  In essence humans have built boundaries everywhere including our mindset.  To be challenged with the idea of infinity is to meet resistance at some point in the “discussion” but I find it a perfect exercise to keep one’s mind active and questioning.

       Coming back to earth and thinking about learning something new every day suddenly becomes a much simpler task.  There is always the news but simply having facts of the day shot at one is not true learning, one must then take the information and ruminate on it to discover what lay behind the story.  For instance, if there was a drive by shooting in the city one could question what lay behind the shooting (besides the obvious money and drugs) and ponder the nature of society’s failure to prevent poverty and crime.  Sounds ponderous?  How about wondering if a cloud collects water from the cloud above which is spouting out rain drops?  How about what shortcut keys will create the symbol ∞ (supposedly Alt 0236 but I cannot get it to work for me).  Are there robins in South America?

       So what’s on your mind and what are you doing about it?