Random Thought #6

Relativity. Its a fascinating concept. It can be looked at from a variety of angles (haha). When was the last time you looked at a situation and re-evaluated it from someone else's point of view. I know it can be kind of difficult since its hard to walk in someone else's shoes, but perhaps that little catch phrase has more meaning than we usually assign it. I can only imagine how many arguments could be prevented if each party would just sit back and put themselves in the other person's shoes. It would be nice if we could pause things and go look at the video through someone else's eyes and it would also allow us to feel their feelings and think their thoughts. Don't get too creeped out on me. Just think about it.

Now for a slightly different take on relativity.
I was reading an article awhile back on HowStuffWorks.com (shameless plug) about gravity, which of course went through the usual concepts developed initially by Sir Isaac Newton, but then it went in to talk about Einstein's theory on gravity. He actually believed that gravity was nothing more than a bend in the space-time continuum and that we weren't traveling on a flat plane, but rather on a somewhat cylindrical plane and that two objects traveling along two different planes eventually crossed and that drawing closer of each object to the next was what we experience as gravity. Interesting take, but I guess its all relative. Then I was drawn into Einstein's theories on Special Relativity. From our perspective, if we throw a baseball, the baseball is moving away from us but what if we looked at things from the baseball's point of view. It would seem as though we were moving away from it since all motion is viewed from a stationary point. Tons more on that topic for a different day. Next time you come to a routine situation or find yourself in an argument, just stop and think about how the other person (and/or object) is perceiving the same event. It might change the way you react to a situation. The more I think, the more

I wonder...