Time in a Bottle

Hello Humans! Time. It's all relative. It's all fake. It really doesn't exist. It's just some measurement of how long something takes. Do you know how long a second is? Well, the definition of a second is the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of the Cesium-133 atom. That's right folks, even our time is measured by atoms. And not only atoms, but how long it takes for a certain number of radioactive particles to fly off of Cesium-133. And you didn't think Chemistry was applicable in anyway.

Well, it turns out you actually measure time by it. Everything is based off of this second of time. A minute is sixty seconds, and an hour is 3600 seconds, and a day is 3600 times 24 seconds, and so on. But time is only a measurement, like a meter, liter, or gram. So why do we care so much about time? If you put a time limit on a test, suddenly everyone starts freaking out. If you put a time limit on life, everyone focuses on the death, or the end of time. If you put a time limit on a sport, everyone is under more pressure. Why is this? It's because then there is a certain measurement of time that we have to do something. For me, time limits oppose no threat whatsoever, because I am very fast at almost everything I do, but for others, who take longer to do math, or to read, or to find their purpose in life, this time limit can be very stressful.

My first real test against a time limit was my AP Environmental Science Final Exam. Our teacher told us that we pretty much had 2 minutes per problem. Now looking back on it, that was nothing. But for my 9th grade mind that hadn't realized it's full potential, this was quite stressful. I worked so hard to become fast at reading questions, answering questions, and doing math correctly. I ended up having almost a half hour of time left over on my exam, and I thought I had missed something, but after double checking, I hadn't. I was just faster than the rest.

"If I could save time in a bottle, the first thing that I'd like to do is to save everyday until Eternity passes away, just to spend them with you. If I could make days last forever, if words would make wishes come true. I'd save everyday like a treasure and then, again, I would spend them with you. But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with. If I had a box just for wishes and dreams that had never come true. The box would be empty except for the memory of how they were answered by you. But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do once you find them. I've looked around enough to know that you're the one I want to go through time with."

Also, you literally can't save time in a bottle, because time is like a meter. It's just intangible. You can't capture it. So this great song is now completely invalid.

Today is my 20th birthday. Wow does two decades pass quickly. Especially, when they are filled with Science, friends and family, and YouTube and Netflix. Many goals with time-restraints have come and gone, and now I really only have two goals, without time restraints: To be a successful Scientist who changes the world, and to make it to the Celestial Kingdom. The reason these two don't have time restraints is because I know that I can do both, and that both will happen, I just don't know how much time they will take. It also takes some stress off of me, and allows me to focus on the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of the radiation corresponding to the transition between the two hyperfine levels of the ground state of Cesium-133 atom. Stay wild, flower child.

Also, I've absolutely been nerding out over probably the two most nerdy of not-documentary television. I've learned to love Doctor Who and Rick and Morty. Both of which are about travel through space and time, and have a lot of science in them. I'll probably be writing about them sometime in the near future. But for now, we'll just say that David Tennant is my favorite of the Doctors so far.