Hello? Is anyone there?
Yep Hi
Hey how are ya?
I am doing well
Awesome Any exciting plans this weekend?
I am going up to virginia to see the BYU traveling ballroom team We leave tomorrow I am excited
Have you seen anyone on recently? I can't see anything.
Like are there other people chatting?
Hello? All I see is a green chat bubble with some dots on it
...... Are you getting any chats How about now?
And it won't budge. If you can see my words just open another window Oh yeah I am getting them now
It came through Awesome
We're you getting mine? What was wrong? Hmmm weird So what did you say you were doing again?
I was I am heading up to Virginia, the BYU touring ballroom team will be performing there. My brother in law is on the team and my Aunt is in charge of hosting the team So it will be good to see family
Oh ok I have some pretty good plans this weekend I am going back home to see my cousin get married to her new spouse and also to see my sister graduate from college I want to get all of my homework done first so that I don't have to worry about it
That sounds like it will be so much fun! I hope you finish your homework
Yeah it is really dense I spent most of the morning reading for my classes
What classes are you taking currently?
It is the first week of school and we still have an exam coming up in like a week or two I am taking a beginning weight lifting class Pretty fun actually. I have never really known how to lift weights with proper form and that is pretty much what the class is all about. The test we have to take is open book
Yeah the exams seem to be relentless That is nice
It is basically available for us to take anytime we want whenever for the next three weeks Yeah
I still have to study a lot for open book exams
I had to read like 50 pages today And the same went for yesterday Just for two classes My weight lifting class doesn't have any material to read really It is all just for the exam so we only use the textbook that once Because of that I decided not to buy the textbook. Instead I will rent it when the exam opens up next week.
Text book prices are insane if they are bought new, even if they are used
Oh yeah it is absolutely ridiculous I bought my music book for 40 dollars on the book exchange It would have cost me 250 if I bought it from the book store
I prefer hard copy books, but its nice to pay less online for digital copies
Yeah I like being able to sell my textbook back for more money Or the samne Hopefully I don't lose money selling it back if I buy the cheapest one. That is the idea. Keeps prices down cheap
Yeah that makes sense Its a struggle when you have to mark up the books and people are less likely to buy them
Yeah that's true I like it when teachers let you work out of the books without actually marking them So far I have had only one class that made me do that It was my Econ 110 class. He actually had us RIP pages out of the book can you believe that? It's ok The textbook was like 160 dollars though and now I will never get my money back I got an A in the class so I guess that I can't complain
Hahaha yeah it sounds like it was worth it
Yep
I think it was ridiculous that one of the ones the professor makes can cost so much. Its just printed pages. The copies should not be that much
Are you the oldest in your family? I guess are you the first one to be going through college? Yeah it makes no sense
No I have an older sister. She is working on her PhD now
Publishing agencies mark it up really bad The prices are like triple or more what the printing price is
She is my only sibling
Oh So just you two then?
Yep
Do you have a nuclear family?
What is that?
Mom and dad
Yep
That is awesome I try not to assume that people do I do and it has definitely been a blessing to my life that I will always be grateful for Have you heard of epigenetics at all?
Yes! I have heard about that
What do you think about it?
I think its really cool and interesting
From what I understand it is basically that you can lock and unlock genes right? And those locked and unlocked states can act as switches or can make certain specialized dna inaccessible
Basically, its just what genes are expressed. And that is why environment is so influencial. Like even clones dont look the same unless developed in the same environment Its pretty cool that you can have certain traits but they are just silenced
Interesting so genes can be turned on or off by the environment? Yeah
But also scary that a bad trait could but silenced and could be expressed eventually Yep!
I wonder if you can pass down certain enviormental adaptations to your kids like that
Environment does have an impact on who we are
Like a temoporary genetic mutation And maybe genes that aren't in use are harder to mutate That would explain why our cells are so stable It would be even cooler if we could pass down memories in our brain through genetic switches
That would be intense
Like they would be reconstructed when we were born based off of our parental dna
For a little I wanted to go into genetic engineering
That would be awesome! Genetic engineering is an interesting field Everyone always freaks out about genetically modified organisms though It is kind of ridiculous actually I mean there isn't really even anything different in them
I think its valid in some places but generally ridiculous.
Yeah Things have just been moved around
Its just another way of doing selective breeding
Like non gmo milk Yeah exactly
If people realized what food used to be they wouldnt complain
We have been doing that for hundreds and hundreds of years why not now but with new technology?
Like corn was so weak before we started "messing" with it
Yeah it like took many many generations to get what we have today It came to us through the natives in America so I don't know... Didn't it start out as grass?
Yeah and anything it had really was just a few kernals
Interesting
I think its incredible that people can create cells by developing entire genetic sequences
Yeah I kind of wondered why ancient people thought to start eating grass It makes sense that there was probably a group of kernel in the first species
Haha I always wonder why people starting eating what they did Like mushrooms
Yeah don't those plants just feed off of dead things?
Mushrooms?
Yeah
Yep, they and other fungi glean nutrients off decay
Interesting Do you think it is possible to have two events happen at EXACTLY the same time?
What events? I mean I get invited to different things that happen at the same time not all the time maybe once every blue moon
Anything But it has to happen at EXACTLY the same time With no space for error
I am sure something happens at the exact same time What do you think
I think that no two events can occur at the exact same time
Why is that?
I look at all events as occurring in their unique place on a time line Coming before or after every other even in existence Even if an event were to happen on the minute or second or millisecond If you observed closely you could measure a difference Even if it is in trillionth so of a second Perhaps many times smaller
Hm That is interesting I guess if you kept taking down the timing to fractions of a second and further there would be variance
YEs In every event in history
I think at this point something might have been at the same time. It is bound to happen with so many things going on
I think you could hit the point where you thought something had occurred at the same time and then, upon closer observation, perhaps too close for observation by human beings, You would note that there was a difference, almost completely inconsequential
Interesting thoughts How much do you think about those things? like super deep theoretical stuff
I used to a lot But I made that decision a while ago I don't think it would be too incredibly difficult to prove
What other things do you consider and think about?
Well consider a circle Do you really think there exists such a thing in this world?
Like the general shape?
Like as a regular shape with infinitely Many sides
Maybe not a perfect one, a lot of things in science and math for our purposes are made perfect as representations of ideal senarios
Yeah exactly
So while things might end up being close, they probably are the never circle that we have invented to understand the principles of it
I believe that the reason you can't pinpoint an exact value of pi is because the circle is only theoretical
That is the idea, in physics and geometry they are only representations
I suppose by nature any measurement cannot be pinned down exactly either So I guess all numbers are real numbers ... maybe that is why mathematics decides to call them real
That is why we have different degrees of precision and accuracy
The only 1 that exists in life is the 1 that you define Yeah This is really more theoretical, So degrees of precision and accuracy don't really apply This is in a world where these numbers exist and can be measured exactly But they don't match Each could be assigned a real number in relation to an event in time and would each be different real numbers
It is all interesting Have you taken any theory classes? I think It would be interesting but I get too caught up in it
No I am doing a theory of analysis class soon I think But that is it
Nice What has been your favorite subject to learn about
Well I really like learning about theory So math physics, science You name it, if it involves thinking I enjoy it
Nice That is good that you have a general love of learning
Yeah What is something you enjoy doing?
Hm I like learning about cultures and other beliefs, it is so fascinating to me
Interesting
but really it is just really awesome when I learn something applicable in my life
I need to be more interested in people and their beliefs Sometimes I am
I love to find the connections and how they got to where they are
My entire life has been about building a perspective that covers every subject and every nook and cranny of life So I am always trying to look at things differently Maybe if I see learning about other people as a way to look at the world differently and learn more I would be more interested
It sounds like it would be a good way to change perspectives So you said you are only taking two classes this semester? Hey are you still there?