7 November

Some of the ideas I post here derive from the ideas Einstein used. For example, location words like up, down, near, far, there, here, before, after - all of those are words with relative meanings, not absolute meanings. ‘Far away’ has no absolute meaning at all - 100 years ago London was far away from Sydney. Now you can be anywhere in the world in 24 hours. Similarly people use their bodies as if it takes effort to get from ‘there’ to ‘here’, or from ‘down’ to ‘up’, without realising that here is already part of there, or that their bodies are already down when they’re up. Etc. None of this is just about the meaning of words, the meanings translate across into real physical effects in our lives.