Accidentally New Age*

Accidentally New Age is going back to school.

The plan for now is to become an occupational therapist, but ANA is open to being led down a different path — say, cosmology.

For the time being, though, ANA is taking all the prerequisites that she didn’t manage to fulfill while obtaining her liberal arts degree.

Learnings from the first week of classes:

• Before Newton and his Law of Inertia, there was the idea that an object remained in motion because air created a vacuum behind it and squeezed it along.
• If a teacher tells the class they will need to get into groups of three and will likely be called on to present what was learned in class, everyone will sit up and start taking notes.

Accidentally New Age just spent her lunch break listening to this delightful podcast about dark energy. It contains a lovely interview with the cosmologist who came up with the name “dark energy” as a way to explain that the concept it describes isn’t a “cosmological constant.”

It’s pretty much a 25-minute discussion about scientists’ discovery of (and lack of true comprehension about) the mystery of spanda. And so I loved it. And so should you.

Enjoy.

P.S. The interview features several mentions of the Large Hadron Collider. Which leads to the obvious question:  Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the world yet?

Accidentally New Age hopes you spent a good amount of the last few nights taking moon baths. It’s the moon, in fact, that reminded ANA about this handy little forum she has for writing about the awesomeness of such things as the moon.

ANA told her journal that 2009 is the year of going outside every day to admire the moon. And so it is.