Star Trek

Loved it! The concept of mulitiple space-time overlapping wormholes!! I could talk about it all day!
My favorite part of the movie is when young Kirk and young Spock meet Scotty, who has been banished to a planet whose entire surface is akin to the Siberian tundra for his crazy ideas about space overlapping. Scotty is trying to formulate a way for objects to travel within space and be transported from one place to another. The formula, however, has already been discovered by Scotty and is reiterated by young Spock, who is able to do so because the formula has already been invented by Scotty in the future. So was the formula in fact discovered by Scotty, or is it known because Spock gave it to him? The concept of historical context and the impact of one event upon another is astounding and can be used in all topics of interest.


Case in Point: I actually got into a debate with my fiance about the greater value of a primary cause versus an immediate cause (I'm not sure about the correct language...). Basically, I said that Elvis was greater than The Beatles even though the Beatles have a greater causal influence on popular music. My reasoning is that Elvis opened the door for The Beatles to come onto the scene with their more well-known lyrical creations. Because Elvis preceded The Beatles and opened the door that allowed The Beatles to be heard amongst mainstream music across the U.S., he therefore has a greater causal effect on music because he 'caused the cause'!

The Beatles have a ginormous causal inpact upon music, even today. But because it was Elvis's music that allowed the music of The Beatles to become popular, Elvis's impact on music in a historical context becomes greater. This is not to say that Elvis's music is somehow better or that he was even a more popular musician that The Beatles. I only mean to allow that Elvis's music was the primary impact that preceded The Beatles' immediate impact on popular music today.

Maybe w'll never know who, what or when things will impact us or whether or not we've impacted another person. But it's important to think about why we do what we do.






"...when I asked her where she was when Kennedy was shot she said, 'Ted Keneddy was shot?'"