discussions with a physicist on age of universe

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 I was about to write a diary entry but then thought, "Well, why not make it a blog entry instead?" 

I was going over my thoughts on a discussion I had with my colleague in my staff room office. I teach in the IB program, and our office has a mathematician who actually works with string theory and similar — wow— language teachers, a psychology teacher, and an environmental studies teacher. But when I walked in yesterday morning, I got chatting with my physics colleague on my left. 

He talked about what he was about to teach, special relativity. I said to him 'why don't you tell the students the crazy economist thinks the universe is telling us with respect to special relativity?' And he didn't remember our conversation from the past where I told them —the math teacher too — that I think the universe is a frozen image at its outer limits, the Big Bang, due to the phenomenon of special relativity. That special relativity doesn't allow us to see beyond.

What I find funny is that as much as I like, even love, my colleagues, they very much pigeonhole you, and so he went on to 'science -splain' —not mansplain— about the Hubble expansion of the universe and everything else. I guess he just couldn't take it that I could even think of such concepts. And I guess I have a wee bit of humility in me, even if I did drop that well. I've written about these things and thought long and hard about them. 

He does know and would understand that I've written an explanation of the Hubble expansion and the universe's large-scale structure. For me, these are now like old battles of the past, memories in a sense, something that I experienced at the time and kind of proud that I was part of (in my own little world). There is no call for empathy, but I sometimes feel a little sorry for myself.

My string theory mathematician colleague does (what I have published), and he praises me for it and he also mentors me for it. He comforts me in that he thinks the science world is a very strange place, but you should be proud that you have done what you've done. 

I am still waiting to discuss what I've put out.


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