Friday, February 3, 2006

COSMIC COINCIDENCES — by Steve Nadis

I’m often making notes to myself (NOTE TO MYSELF: Stop making notes to myself!). Yesterday, apropos of nothing, I made a note to call a physicist in California–let’s call him a string theory cosmologist. A second later, I checked my email and found, to my surprise, a note from somebody else asking me to meet with this same physicist next month when he passed through Cambridge.

So much for coincidence one. Next I was watching a BBC show about the multiverse (this was WORK, not just a guy sitting on a couch, watching TV in the middle of a weekday). My daughters were clamoring to watch Arthur. So I turned off my DVD during a discussion of gravity leaking into other dimensions and put on Arthur. That very second, a character in that show, “The Brain,” said something like: “Hey, want to learn something cool about gravity?”

Then, to top it off, a minute later Arthur talked about watching a science show on TV–the very same program for which I’m currently working. That project,in turn, was the reason I had the TV on in the first place to watch the BBC show and was also the reason I wanted to call the guy from California. That’s three cosmic coincidences in the span of an hour. Whoever said this universe–or multiverse–isn’t one weird place?

Posted by Snake at 21:36:03
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11 Responses to “COSMIC COINCIDENCES — by Steve Nadis”

  1. DrMax says:
    February 3, 2006 at 5:55 pm

    Wow…..I thought you’d be working on a NOVA program, you didn’t tell us it was actually going to be ARTHUR! Or am I confused again?

  2. Snake says:
    February 3, 2006 at 7:48 pm

    Hi Max — It is confusing and I don’t think I can explain it all properly.

  3. Windfall Woman says:
    February 3, 2006 at 10:27 pm

    I think I’m hearing the theme from Twilight Zone in the background.

  4. ardi k says:
    February 3, 2006 at 11:01 pm

    Don’t you love it when that happens?

  5. Snake says:
    February 4, 2006 at 12:03 am

    Yeah Ardi, it’s pretty cool when that happens. But I can’t quite hear you cause that Twilight Zone music is coming in so loud. Lemme turn it down; there, that’s better… You were saying?

  6. Anonymous says:
    February 4, 2006 at 5:35 am

    zardoz says:

    i liked the english t.v. series

    ” SPACE 1999 ” ,

    ON THE COINCIDENCE FACTOR , WELL THERE HAVE BEEN TOO MANY LATELY.

    But lets say that the moon really broke off
    from the earths orbit, does the human race survive
    without the baggage, or not ?
    and if they do , does love cease to exist since we cant tell our beaus that their eyes match the moonlight nights, and what happens to those really great love songs like “LA LUNA” you know that crazy mounaaaahhh…..

    well….

    ………….

    zardoz

  7. Snake says:
    February 4, 2006 at 12:05 pm

    This time Z it seems you’ve stumped me…

  8. Anonymous says:
    February 4, 2006 at 3:44 pm

    zardoz says:
    well thats because im on different medication.
    gives me a different perspective
    —z

  9. Snake says:
    February 4, 2006 at 5:19 pm

    As the French say: Viva la difference!

  10. Flubberwinkle says:
    February 5, 2006 at 2:26 am

    It’s coincidences like these that get me wondering about the “forces beyond”. [enter Twilight Zone theme here] A while back, I had to make a difficult decision regarding a family issue and I stumbled upon a newspaper heading, a tv show and book cover and an overheard discussion at a cafe about the same issue ON THE SAME DAY. Weird? Who’s to say that the cosmic powers weren’t aiding me in my decision. [theme song fade out]…

  11. Snake says:
    February 5, 2006 at 8:28 am

    You’re right, FW. WHO IS TO SAY?

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