So last night after church MS and AS (I think that's what the cool bloggers do--just use initials) were talking about how if you sped off the planet at the speed of light and were gone for a million years, when you came back, two million years may have elapsed in earth time. Of course, I said, this is impossible because you can't go the speed of light, and AS said, yeah, because then your mass would be infinite.

I'm not quoting now, but then BK--a girl--piped up and said, that wouldn't be good because I would come back and all my friends would be gone.

This struck me as funny, I don't know if it comes across as such as I write it. It made me laugh because we were talking about grandiose, fantastic, modern physics ideas, and what she thought about was that if she went off into space for 50 years, when she came back 100 earth-years later, all her friends would be dead. That's cool, though.

And I know essentially nothing about the special theory of relativity. I think I knew that you can't go the speed of light ... mmm ... Darin, he refreshed my memory anyway, if I ever knew it at all.