Time Machine

So far our believes and ideas of a time machine comes from the movies we watch, and we mostly just watch this movies as fiction, but if you look deeply into these fictions, you will realise that there are elements of great possibilities in it.

Reminiscing on the things we were taught in Geography back in secondary school, I remember we were told that it takes 2 seconds for light from the moon to reach us, and about 8 mins for light from the sun to reach earth, and I just googled the time it takes for light to reach earth from Pluto, and it is about 5.3 hours. Now hold that thought.

Considering the galaxies that are close to earth like the Sagittarius Dwarf, it is about 70,000 light years from earth (PS: Light years is distance rather than speed), which is equal to roughly 660,000,000,000,000,000 km (1.e 660 Quadrillion Kilometers), hence at the speed of light it will take 69,715.3042458 years for light from the closest galaxy to hit earth, this also means that if an object travels at the speed of light from earth it will take it that amount of time to reach the nearest galaxy, this time is roughly same for our space telescope.

This simply means that what we see from the space telescope is a picture of the Sagittarius Dwarf 69715.3042458 years ago, ahhh, impressive right? It tells us that we do not even know what the Sagittarius Dwarf looks like right now, it might be having spacecraft floating around its space like a Lagos traffic, or might have some pretty amazing space station created by alien life form just floating around.

But, this is not my point, my point is that we are living in a freaking time machine, the cosmos is a time machine, where we are able to see the past in real time. If scientist are right, that the universe is 14 billion years old, it means that if we look just far enough we should be able to see probably formation of new galaxies that occurred some trillion or quadrillion years ago, and get a better understanding of how the universe was created, and how it ticks (FYI: I totally believe that God created the universe, but in a way that is observable by science, like the way we understand the air we breath).

In conclusion, I believe that if the universe works as a time machine, then we should be able to recreate this same behaviour and engineer our own time machine, which might not just be able to see the past but also the future, and maybe someday, man would be able to even exist in real time in this other dimension.

Sugar Causes Slumber

A research recently conducted on mice, shows that after consuming sugar, they tend to slumber. This findings contradict the common believe that sugar leads to hyperactivity. This research was published in the Journal of Neuroscience on July 8.

According to Christophe Varin of Lyon Neuroscience Research Center and ESPCI Paris Tech in France "We all experience this strong feelings of sleepiness after a very large meal. Sugar is the reason why those post-meal naps are often irritable".

This might explain why I always feel really sleepy after a cup of garri and groundnut, in a hot afternoon. As a matter of fact before seeing this research results, I had suggested to my friends that they take a cup of garri and groundnut or Pap whenever they need to sleep, but they have always laughed me off, only if I had known that this  could have been a groundbreaking discovery.

In conclusion, this research has been able to give me good insight on how to run my day, now I know, that a cup of sugary tea in the morning will not be so good, and also when I need to work at night, a cup of plain coffee will just do.