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When I opened Dan Brown’s “Lost Symbol” to find the quote: “To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.” I smiled a heartfelt smile. Education has been so very important to me and I always strive to learn more.
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I am a PC guy and a Windows guy and have been for over 20 years, however, things change. When I wear my design engineer hat I design microcontroller devices. These are small computer like electronics that have software in them. Much of the electronics world today is dominated with microcontroller devices, µC is the common designator or acronym for these devices which generally refers to the chip but can be used to describe the whole device. They are small, fast, easy to design and program and can be designed to do anything on a budget. My designs are used all over the continental U.S. controlling Tower Clocks.
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Since I first learned of the theory several years ago (and I mean several), String theory took some time for me to warm up to. The explanations of vibrations or wave states appealed to me because they are easy to identify with, especially since energy is, to put it succinctly energetic, other aspects did not make it into my model of the universe. Gravity; wow, how to get a handle on that one. Not only do we (when I use the term we, I refer to the collective we of society, my belief being that what science knows, society knows as a whole.) Not only do we not know what gravity is, we don’t know what space is. Hell, we don’t know what time is. I am mechanically minded and approach problems from that prospective. I have to be able to build the model in my mind and play with it. If it works, it is incorporated into my mental model of the universe.
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