Ever touched anything?..........................

Try this. Go pick something up, now look at it in your hand, or fingers or whatever it is that you used to pick it up. Are you touching it? You can feel it right? Now think before you answer, are you REALLY touching/holding it? Look closely, think hard……..

You’re NOT really touching it. Sounds crazy doesn’t it? I just want you to know that technically speaking, you have NEVER touched a single thing in your entire life…..EVER. And you never will. Want an explanation? Let me once again direct you to my favorite book, A Short History of Nearly Everything. By author Bill Bryson.


When two objects come together in the real world—billiard balls are most often used for illustration—they don’t actually strike each other. “Rather,” as Timothy Ferris explains, “the negatively charged fields of the two balls repel each other . . . were it not for their electrical charges they could, like galaxies, pass right through each other unscathed.”
When you sit in a chair, you are not actually sitting there, but levitating above it at a height of one angstrom (a hundred millionth of a centimeter), your electrons and its electrons implacably opposed to any closer intimacy.




And now on to a COMPLETELY different subject.


I’m sitting here listening to the engadget podcast, and they are discussing the new Nintendo game console that will debut later this year. Nintendo had up until recently been calling this next gen console the “Revolution”, but recently they had made an announcement in which they released the true name , it will be known as the WII (pronounced WE). Odd isn’t it? But do you think that this name will prevent it from selling ver well? According to a lot of people (including the guys over at Engadget) the name WILL prevent good sales. Come on! Can a name REALLY influence sales? I can see it happening in the market for foods, like if there was ice cream name PUS Brand ice cream, yeah sure, but for a game console? Sounds kinda like some people are a little too closed minded. Anyways, according to the spec sheets that are out there now, I think this console will make it into my home this year, whether it’s called the WII or the Revolution or the PUS.