9/12/2003
Driveway Moment
Driveway Moment
NPR has on its web site refers to something called as "driveway moments" it is explained as follows:
What is a Driveway Moment ?
“Maybe it's happened to you as it has to countless others...
You're driving home, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself in your driveway (or parking space or parking garage). Rather than turn the radio off, you stay in your car to hear the piece to the end. It's a Driveway Moment.”
while i was driving back from work today, listening to NPR as usual... i began musing about what i was reading the day before.....
In school i was taught atom is the smallest ‘indivisible’ part of matter and it is made of electrons, protons and neutrons ....that was 1980’s .....well it seems we have now advanced in our understanding of the world we live in...
Michael S. Turner, professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago writes in world book encyclopedia that physicists have learned by peering ever deeper into the structure of atoms that the subatomic world does not end with protons, neutrons, and electrons. The fundamental building blocks of matter are six types of quarks, six types of leptons, and all of their antiparticles, governed by four known fundamental forces of nature. These are the electromagnetic force, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity. Thus, a complex universe of its own exists within each atom--a universe that is still revealing its mysteries.
when you really think about it seems to me that eventually in its deepest sense everything around us, i.e. matter is nothing but a bundle of energy. energy all pervading and all encompassing... extrapolate on this chain of thought and you jump out of realm of physics and astrophysics into that of theology.
in the end Professor Turner concludes " When we view the galaxies, wheeling in their majesty amid the blackness of space, it seems incredible that they are made of the same basic stuff that we are. But such is the beauty and wonder of our universe that fewer than 100 kinds of atoms, together with four forces, can be used to construct a sea shell, a human being, or a spiral galaxy of 200 billion stars "
lost in thought while driving i kept on wondering - when Professor
Turner talks about beauty and wonder of our universe is he not really referring to GOD ???
lost in thought suddenly i realise i was in my driveway....
I think i exactly know what that is ... driveway moments.... i believe my entire driving is spent on such moments. Driving home listening to radio or lost in thoughts....i sometimes fail to conciously register my entire driving trip. as i reluctantly reached to turn out the radio and pick up my bag i realized i had forgotten to stop and buy milk ..... lost in profound non-essential thoughts of this universe ..i :) :) goofed on the petty essential needs of daily life.....
that’s me !
What is a Driveway Moment ?
“Maybe it's happened to you as it has to countless others...
You're driving home, listening to a story on NPR. Suddenly, you find yourself in your driveway (or parking space or parking garage). Rather than turn the radio off, you stay in your car to hear the piece to the end. It's a Driveway Moment.”
while i was driving back from work today, listening to NPR as usual... i began musing about what i was reading the day before.....
In school i was taught atom is the smallest ‘indivisible’ part of matter and it is made of electrons, protons and neutrons ....that was 1980’s .....well it seems we have now advanced in our understanding of the world we live in...
Michael S. Turner, professor of astrophysics at the University of Chicago writes in world book encyclopedia that physicists have learned by peering ever deeper into the structure of atoms that the subatomic world does not end with protons, neutrons, and electrons. The fundamental building blocks of matter are six types of quarks, six types of leptons, and all of their antiparticles, governed by four known fundamental forces of nature. These are the electromagnetic force, the strong and weak nuclear forces, and gravity. Thus, a complex universe of its own exists within each atom--a universe that is still revealing its mysteries.
when you really think about it seems to me that eventually in its deepest sense everything around us, i.e. matter is nothing but a bundle of energy. energy all pervading and all encompassing... extrapolate on this chain of thought and you jump out of realm of physics and astrophysics into that of theology.
in the end Professor Turner concludes " When we view the galaxies, wheeling in their majesty amid the blackness of space, it seems incredible that they are made of the same basic stuff that we are. But such is the beauty and wonder of our universe that fewer than 100 kinds of atoms, together with four forces, can be used to construct a sea shell, a human being, or a spiral galaxy of 200 billion stars "
lost in thought while driving i kept on wondering - when Professor
Turner talks about beauty and wonder of our universe is he not really referring to GOD ???
lost in thought suddenly i realise i was in my driveway....
I think i exactly know what that is ... driveway moments.... i believe my entire driving is spent on such moments. Driving home listening to radio or lost in thoughts....i sometimes fail to conciously register my entire driving trip. as i reluctantly reached to turn out the radio and pick up my bag i realized i had forgotten to stop and buy milk ..... lost in profound non-essential thoughts of this universe ..i :) :) goofed on the petty essential needs of daily life.....
that’s me !
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