Black Hole

My freshman year of college I kept note of all the funny things my professors said.

The Latin professor reminded us that we would address a group of animals (in vocative case) by saying "O animalia."

The marine science guy had the most quotations. One memorable one was, while talking about mistaking a dolphin for a shark, "Have you ever seen a fin coming toward you and been ready to kiss your life goodbye?"

*Stunned silence.*

Quieter: "Happens to me all the time."

But the quotation that has stuck with me the most was from my astronomy professor. He was explaining about black holes and time. If you tied up your friend in a chair so he couldn't move, he would be stationary in space, but he would continue to move through time. If you threw your friend into a black hole, he would be stationary time, but not in space. He would get sucked into the black hole, but you would see him hovering on the edge (according to my professor).

Anyway, as he was using this example he said, "Say you throw your friend into a black hole- that is, of course, assuming you have a friend."

I have so many thoughts on this, but mainly, if you want to have friends you shouldn't be throwing them into black holes.

Virginia has a small stuffed panda bear with teeth-able feet that rides with her in her car seat. She has taken to tossing the panda out of her car seat and then complaining that he is gone. I calmly explained to her recently that when she throws her friend into a black hole, she doesn't have a friend anymore.