Voices from the Past

[teleidoplex]

I've been doing an intensive cleaning today, and found some interesting things, including bad poetry I wrote in high school (a lot of blood, death, dominance and submission stuff in there...and I used the penname Darkangel. I was such a dweeb!)

I found the copy of the final Calvin and Hobbes strip that I took out of the L.A. Times and laminated. Pretty keen.

Most interesting, I found a snipped I took out of the L.A.Times kid section. It was a Beakman and Jax instructional cartoon. I'm going to recreate it here, because damn, it's some keen shit.



"Dear Jax,

What are the Laws of the Universe?

Lee Keer, Woodbury, Tennessee


Dear Lee,

That's kind of a mind-expanding question! The best question are the ones that make you think a bit. And Beakman and I thought a lot about this one. Genius Nobel-prize-winning physicists like Leon Lederman are out looking for the one law of the Universe. But when we answer questions, we keep seeing the same powerful laws pop up over and over. Today's comic might seem pretty cosmic, but the Universe is a pretty cosmic (and comic) place to be.

Jax Place


1. The Universe Likes Balance.
The Universe working toward balance is why airplanes fly, why balloons lose their air, how fish can get oxygen from water, how batteries work, why the wind blows, and lots more. Balance is needed for there to be matter. If an atom wasn't balanced, it couldn't exist. The forces of nature will push tirelessly and forever to make things balanced. Yow!



2. Nothing Ever Disappears.
There is only so much stuff in the universe. None of it disappears. Ever. When things seem to disappear, they've really only changed their form. Like fire. Where did the wood go? It mixed with oxygen and transformed into other gases, the particles in the smoke, and even into light and heat. An important part of this law is that energy is just another way for matter to be, and vice versa. Radical!



3. There Is No Darkness, Only Light.
You cannot make something that is not a thing. Negative things like darkness or cold are not really things at all. They're the absence of things. There is only more or less light. There is only more or less heat. To make dark you must block the light. To make cold you must remove the heat. Energy will move into cold or dark spaces until all of the space shares equal light, equal heat. See the law #1.



4. There Are Different Truths.
Energy can be a wave, like a radio wave or a light wave. A whole set of laws of Nature flow from energy being a wave. But energy can also seem to be a quantum -- a little chunk, or particle of energy. Photons are particles, chunks of light. And whole new laws flow from the view that energy is in chunks. We call this view Quantum Mechanics. Both views are way different. Both are completely true. There are different truths.




Pretty keen, neh?

Oh...also:

Comments

[moonandserpent.livejournal.com]

Wow, Beakman and Jax... I completley forgot about them. I remember when the Enquirer picked them up after a write-in campaign. And that is a pretty damn nifty letter.

And don't give Darkangel (*snicker*) too much of a hard time. Sure you were a dweeb back then, but I, at least, would love to have the earnestness and depth of passionate dweebishness that I posessed in high school. I bet there's parts of your life that high school dweeb Alyc would excell at.*

*And besides, "Darkangel" is no worse a high-school poetry writin' dweeby pen name than "Gabriel".

[princess706.livejournal.com]

Here-here.

And "Wendy" would approve as well.

::hangs head::

[teleidoplex]

Nah...I like Wendy. Literary and brushing the fantastic without being pretentious. Unless you were naming yourself after the fast food chick, in which case, I mock you ;>

We should totally have a bad-high-school poetry reading party, with booze.