Okay, I know it's been over a month since my last blog, but I've been traveling for the past 5 weeks! Not really a good excuse, but it's the best I got. My travels have been a lot of fun actually and I thought the travel time would lend itself to fresh thoughts percolating around in my head. However, the latest tidbit bubbling to the top and spilling out for me is something I watched on the History channel in the comfort of my own home. Globetrotting is overated. This particular tele show was interviewing all these physicists from around the world. They were talking about their latest project in which they have developed this 17 mile ring to try and discover/create subatomic particles that existed at the beginning of the universe. They each said they were looking for the God particle. By the end of the show my non-physicist head began to hurt, but I do find stuff like this fascinating. What was particularly fascinating was that at the end of the show they wrapped up by quickly jumping from person to person and asking them all the same question. Why do you do what you do? They all said the same thing. "Because I want to know why." That's really the question isn't it. Why? Why did the universe form the way it did? Why does the sun come up and set everyday? Why do humans behave the way they do? Why should I get up out of bed in the morning? Why does John McCain not know how many homes he owns? Why do politicians like talking about lipstick so much? Why do we work so hard, for so long, to pay for things that make us work even harder and longer? Why indeed. Why does anything we do matter? You don't have to be a physicist to ask that question. No matter your degree of intelligence it's always the looming question. People eventually ask why. Why am I doing this again? Why do I care about writing a blog? Maybe it's because I want to see if there's anyone else willing to discuss the why's of life. Or maybe it's just because I'm amazed that I can type something on my computer, and in an instant it can be floating out there on the world wide web! (You know physicists acutally created the internet too.) So the next time you're sitting in line at a drive thru or surfing the web ask yourself the following questions. Why does life happen the way it happens, and why should I bother? And then take it one step further. Respond to this blog and let me know what you came up with. Why? Because I want to know why.
