Just Vibrating Molecules

Sitting at Dan's Cafe with Albert Einstien on a Saturday afternoon. I sip on a Scotch and soda water and he's knocking back Southern Comfort on the rocks.

 

It's a precarious world, isn't it, Al?

 

"Yes. Very precarious indeed.  I mean you could step outside and get hit by a bus tonight. Maybe even tomorrow."

 

I take a gulp. "Thanks, Al. What I meant is its structure. Things that make sense today, sometimes don't make sense tomorrow, like one day people thought the Earth was flat, a few years later Columbus goes lands in America thinking it's India."

 

"Well, D. What you are talking about is relativity." He takes a sip. Turns his chair and opens his arms. "Imagine" He says, "that the whole universe is the space inbetween my arms."

 

I nod and sip.

 

"So that's my relativity."

 

"Are you saying I should just imagine a world inbetween my arms?"

 

"Yes, but make it bigger and give everyone their own world too. We're all living within our own worlds - each uniquely differant, each with our own frames for referance - a metaphorical windshield. It's a shock how we can effectivly communicate at all."

 

"But we can."

 

"Yes, catepillar. Because we can agree on methods and meanings - to a degree."

 

"What if we all decided to stop agreeing."

 

"Total chaos, D - which could happen, like you getting hit by a bus."

 

"So everything is relative, Einstien?"

 

"Yes, and I also think to say that we're all just vibrating molecules from some big bang billions of years ago. Swirling and bumping into eachother, which is to say - to believe you are truely in your own world is idiotic."

 

"But you just..."

 

"I explained relativity. What is more important, beyond our social science, is the philosophical science - That we all share in the unique human experiance. I emphasize human experiance and less the unique."

 

"Another drink, Bartender."