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I'm working on a secret project so shall post the details of that soon, til then I can't reply to this blog..

You haven't put this morning's show up yet. :-(

鈥淭here must be some way outta here. Said the joker to the thief.鈥�

I wonder if Dillon鈥檚 comedian found that way out?

Following the never-ending treadmill to work today, I felt like the thief鈥affled at our current situation. I watched my fellow collaborators on this journey and wondered if they thought as I did. Why? Why are we putting ourselves through this relentless rigmarole? Oh, yes, I know鈥o earn some dough. To have some 鈥渟cores in the sky rocket,鈥� to buy that nice gift, or to enjoy that nice meal.

Right, but first let鈥檚 break this down a little, shall we? I鈥檓 a big one for statistics. We sleep, on average, about 8 hours a day. Between that moment of consciousness and entering the work environment (showering, breakfasting, traveling) there are a further, say, two hours spent?

Ten gone, fourteen left. Now we get to work. For most of us a further 9 hours on average dissipate into thin air in what seems like the jiffiest of jiffies. So, we鈥檙e now down 19 hours. One hour travel back leaving us with, four? FOUR!!

Our lives are condensed into a sixth of our actual day and a third of our waking day. Let鈥檚 now look at the grander picture. On average we live for 75 years, but we actually experience two thirds of that, due to the necessity of zzz land. 50 years鈥�.So, again I ask, why do we put ourselves through this rigmarole? Bearing in mind we only get a sixth of our lifetime to indulge鈥ffectively 8 years.

Well, for the most of us, so we can eat, experience life, buy nice presents for our loved ones, buy a flash car, etc etc. But hang on we only get 8 years in which to enjoy those particular benefits. Worst of all we spend an eighth of our day in complete misery 鈥� well in London we do. What a waste. I mean, what a deplorable waste.

So from now on I鈥檓 going to start with a smile鈥emember small, easily achievable steps. Lets see how much of an impact that has on me, then on those around. To waste three hours of my day feeling miserable is a thing of the past, no more will I remain imprisoned to necessity. It is time for the thief within to break this particular parole鈥ow, will the joker follow? Bob鈥�?

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Space. The first, second and final frontier

I鈥檝e always been intrigued by the origins of things. From whence did they originate? How did they come about? What gave rise to it being done so, rather than not?

Now, one can read about the origins of almost anything; man, earth, the side parting. You can do so by using THE great modern invention of our time 鈥� the web or by doing it2 the old fashioned way, by reading a book. Here you will find a myriad of different theories, put forward by an equally dazzling list of authors claiming to have THE definitive solution. Equally, and perhaps more satisfying, there are events that have occurred that cannot be fundamentally explained, or if they can, certainly not in a way that allows my mind to picture the event.

Take, for example, the Moai Statues of Easter Island. Now various theories place the creation of these statues at differing periods separated by centuries. What they all agree on is, they were created using stone not indigenous to the island. And certainly not a stone that was transportable by any known means. Which begs the question, 鈥淗ow did they get there?鈥� My mind can鈥檛 even fathom such an event occurring鈥ell, actually I can, but to realize it, one would require a Dreamworks production budget and most would then just argue that it was far fetched.

Similarly, my mind and imagination hit a vacuum like wall when challenged to imagine what time must have been like prior to what many like to call The Big Bang. This is my favorite description of The Big Bang, 鈥渁 cosmological model of the universe that is best supported by all lines of scientific evidence and observation. The essential idea is that the universe has expanded from a primordial hot and dense initial condition at some finite time in the past and continues to expand to this day.鈥� Come again? I don鈥檛 get it. First I don鈥檛 get how something is growing at an infinite level. What exists on the other side of infinity? It鈥檚 growing, right? Well, what鈥檚 it growing into? A big space? A big empty space that drops as deep as it ascends high? An ocean of nothingness that drops into an abyss of nada鈥�? Exactly. I just can鈥檛 do it.

Then, there is the issue of what existed before tick tick boom? Again, we鈥檙e told that, 鈥渢he universe was filled homogeneously and isotropically with an incredibly high energy density, huge temperatures and pressures, and was very rapidly expanding and cooling. Approximately 10-35 seconds into the expansion, a phase transition caused a cosmic inflation, during which the universe grew exponentially. After inflation stopped, the universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma, as well as all other elementary particles. Temperatures were so high that the random motions of particles were at relativistic speeds, and particle-antiparticle pairs of all kinds were being continuously created and destroyed in collisions. At some point an unknown reaction called Baryogenesis violated the conservation of baryon number, leading to a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and anti-leptons鈥攐f the order of 1 part in 30 million. This resulted in the predominance of matter over antimatter in the present universe.鈥� Yes but antiquarks, antischmarks鈥hat did the gaff look like? I mean just try and fathom it.

Bearing in mind that nothing existed in this 鈥榠nfinite density鈥� you can鈥檛 start imagining swirls of clouds, or 鈥淐-beams shimmering in the dark at the Tannhauser Gate.鈥� And that for me is the fundamental intrigue, letting the imagination run to a point so far removed from the shackles of time and space that no book or theory can actually paint the picture.

It instead requires an experience of the event. The joy of unchartered territory is that no one can tell you you鈥檙e wrong鈥�

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lol love the diary entry! grr flippin secret projects, will be glad when its revealed.. better be worth it after all the suspense!!

nice to see a blog from you aled, you should do more! while am here will your site be fixed soon cus am seriously missing it while tis broken!! xx