January 13th 2025, Chiang Mai, Thailand

I woke up early this morning just to watch the Tampa Bay Buccaneers lose :( It was a pretty lazy day with the highlight being trying acupuncture for the first time. I got some needles in my left hip and shoulder and laid down for 30 minutes. I felt some relief after but nothing crazy. I guess since not much happened today I can summarize an interesting physics video I watched. Space and time are not fundamental aspects of reality. That is a scary thing to come to terms with. I will explain now why space and time emerge from some deep reality, and are not a fundamental aspect of the universe. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that that the more precisely you try to measure a particle's position the less precisely you can know its momentum and vice versa. Also, we know that particles behave like waves, according to the wave-particle duality theory, they exhibit both features simultaneously. Next, a particles momentum is inversely related to its wavelength according to the de Broglie equation. Combining these three ideas together, to investigate small regions of space (small particles), you need shorter wavelengths. Shorter wavelengths correspond to higher momentums. Higher momentums correspond to higher energies. This is why The Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland accelerates particles to near the speed of light, imparting immense energy to investigate the smallest particles in the world. In conclusion, to probe a small region of space you need a lot of energy. Now, the problem is we live in a world with gravity. In our world if you put so much energy into a small region of space, you collapse that region into a black hole. This happens at the Planck length. If you put more energy into the region you create an even bigger black hole! This means there is no operational way of giving meaning to small distances and times due to gravity. If we cannot define any operations at such small distances, it must mean the concepts of space and time are approximate. Space and time are not the "realest" forms of reality! Ok here is another scary thing. The universe was found to be accelerating away from us. That means there are some things in the universe we will never see because the light will never reach us, due to the acceleration. Everything that we see now is all we will ever see, a finite sliver of the universe. Ok enough physics talk. Tomorrow I am going to hopefully go to a local village called Chiang Dao. I will motorbike there and stop off at some waterfalls along the way. I am looking forward to an authentic Thai village and maybe will find a homestay with a local family. Lastly, it is important to find what energizes you and how to stay the most energized throughout the day. It starts with good sleep. You cannot put your best foot forward and be the most present f you are groggy and tired.