Well with your attention being directed lately to the nature of time you returning home to your family certainly confirms that if it is an illusion it’s the most stubbornly convincing one of all of reality’s bag of tricks. Also I think Gloria is quite bright in realizing so early on that rolling is so much more efficient than walking; which is also testament as to how slow of a study evolution is regarding such truths. As for what we need to provide our children I would say anything not mitigated by love should be highly suspect.
”Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
-Neil Postman. “The Disappearance of Childhood”, Introduction page X
"The babies are both fascinated by all things shiny and tiny and stringy" The Higgs is gone by Christmas and SUSY by next Christmas. 12 December 2012 Betelgeus goes supernova to celebrate. They'll bootleg Uncle Al's geometric tests of spacetime geometry. With quantum gravitation (BRST invariance and the Equivalence Principle) corrected, physics will move on. You go girls!
"So maybe we'll wait with teaching the babies differential geometry on complex spaces for some more while." Mirror symmetries are elegant, mathematically facile, and unphysical. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." Perhaps you should have an electronic keyboard out for them to be precocious with in a major income-producing profession. Chord progression is deeply mathematical and delightfully non-Euclidean,
I'm sure you are taking all comments here with a grain of salt, but just to state the obvious: let babies be babies. Besides, they're too cute to turn them into mini adults.
very cute :-) but i guess i don't have to smell baby pooh!
10:50 PM, September 04, 2011
[Image]I am back in Germany and happily reunited with the family. Time might not exist and its passage be an illusion, but the babies are growing irrespective, and our arrow of time points towards baby gates. Lara and Gloria are now 8 months old. They spent the previous week, that I was away for the FQXi conference, with Stefan at their grandma's place. It is difficult to say if they missed me during my absence or if they recognize me upon coming back. They do however clearly recognize our apartment and their own beds. Lara for example had found a way to lie in the corner of her bed in exactly the right angle that she could just look out through the door and onto the corridor - a position she immediately resumed.
The girls are now both moving around by doing the army crawl and Gloria has made first attempts to crawl on her knees. At present, she seems to be aiming at a career as breakdancer, standing on hands and the toes of one foot, turning around chasing the other foot, sometimes slipping and bumping on her head. Interestingly enough, Gloria has completely skipped the phase of moving around by rolling sidewards that Lara has had. Gloria meanwhile has learned how to clap her hands, which she does with enthusiasm. They can now both grab a pacifier and put them into their own mouth and if Lara is in a good mood, she'll try to put it into your mouth.
The babies are both fascinated by all things shiny and tiny and stringy and I've had the somewhat belated insight that the purpose of baby toys is not to entertain the baby but to distract the baby from mommy's toys till it's old enough to realize that pulling on a cable isn't always a good idea.
Our rapid throughput of clothes has been slowing down and we've childproofed the apartment as far as possible. However, in 2 weeks we're packing bags and going back to Stockholm where I will be working while Stefan is on parental leave. So, we'll have to childproof a second apartment and that with the difficulty that we can't remove items or drill into walls because the items aren't ours and the walls are solid concrete.
"Interna"
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6:53 AM, September 03, 2011
Hi Bee,
Well with your attention being directed lately to the nature of time you returning home to your family certainly confirms that if it is an illusion it’s the most stubbornly convincing one of all of reality’s bag of tricks. Also I think Gloria is quite bright in realizing so early on that rolling is so much more efficient than walking; which is also testament as to how slow of a study evolution is regarding such truths. As for what we need to provide our children I would say anything not mitigated by love should be highly suspect.
”Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.”
-Neil Postman. “The Disappearance of Childhood”, Introduction page X
Best,
Phil
6:57 AM, September 03, 2011
"The babies are both fascinated by all things shiny and tiny and stringy" The Higgs is gone by Christmas and SUSY by next Christmas. 12 December 2012 Betelgeus goes supernova to celebrate. They'll bootleg Uncle Al's geometric tests of spacetime geometry. With quantum gravitation (BRST invariance and the Equivalence Principle) corrected, physics will move on. You go girls!
"So maybe we'll wait with teaching the babies differential geometry on complex spaces for some more while." Mirror symmetries are elegant, mathematically facile, and unphysical. "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." Perhaps you should have an electronic keyboard out for them to be precocious with in a major income-producing profession. Chord progression is deeply mathematical and delightfully non-Euclidean,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Riemannian_theory
Middle
http://www-personal.umd.umich.edu/~tmfiore/1/undergradtalk.pdf
10:44 AM, September 03, 2011
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11:52 AM, September 03, 2011
Of ALL the great passages in life, one of the greatest is this:
The day you FINALLY get rid of the diaper pail. You'll see. ;-)
Cute pics Bee and Stefan and thanks for the updates. Be well.
11:54 AM, September 03, 2011
all things shiny and tiny and stringy
Better start with Becker, Becker, & Schwarz
1:04 PM, September 03, 2011
I'm sure you are taking all comments here with a grain of salt, but just to state the obvious: let babies be babies. Besides, they're too cute to turn them into mini adults.
6:36 PM, September 03, 2011
Hi Eric,
Don't worry, I'm one of these awful persons who put salt on every dish by default :o) Best,
B.
2:16 AM, September 04, 2011
very cute :-) but i guess i don't have to smell baby pooh!
10:50 PM, September 04, 2011