I wish I had met Newton.
I want to buy him a drink. Maybe two.
Honestly - though if such a meeting were ever to be arranged - I am sure I would be downing shots while he detoxed on apple juice.
The last month - my life has been a living experiment that proves his laws over and over and over. I learnt these laws in 10th grade for the first time and repeatedly through college- but if I had known their implications on my personal life - I would have taken them more seriously for sure.
I now know why Science is so close to Religion.
First Law : A body persists in its state of rest of uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force
Newton be dammned - I can prove how this force can be an internal force too. One day you are cruising along and the next day you are roadkill. Control is a word that should be scratched from the dictionary. Let me make this easier. The keyboard. I am typing on it. But if the gravitational force changed - just a little bit .. I could be banging my head on it for a long time instead.
Second Law: F equals MA.
I'm more interested in the corollary though. If a body has more than one forces acting upon it - then the new acceleration of the body is the vector sum of all the individual accelerations.
Replace acceleration by aggravation - I rest my case.
Third Law: To every action - there is an equal and opposite reaction.
Unfortunately as I have recently discovered - this action is rarely immediate.
It takes years to understand the horrors of decisions taken and actions made.
The ridiculous part is that offlate - I feel like I've gone from one extreme of the third law to the other. From playing khel khel mein with emotional landmines - to a state of perpetual residence in an exceptionally strong and vagrant force field - where no action produces a reaction. Faraday would be so proud of me.
Fortunately for me, I was also a fairly keen student of Geography and could make the connect when I found my world spinning out of control.
The earths spin as I remember is the fastest at the equator and reduces gradually as one moves towards the poles.
That having been said - I am actively considering a change of residence to either of the poles in an attempt to achieve the impossible and gain control again.
Somethings I guess - Never change.
