Me Thinks Too Much

Lately I have been trying to avoid numbing my mind with music and television. This involves proactively forcing myself to pensively reflect on life. However, the more I reflect, the more I utterly flabbergast myself. I don't delve emotionally; rather I explore metaphysically.

I've always been curious about things and how they work. I've been known to dismantle items just for research's sake. For example, I bought a brand new bicycle a couple of weeks ago. I sweet-talked my way into helping assemble it. A couple of days later I decided to take the crank arms off just because I haven't done that in a couple of years. Nothing was wrong with the bike; I was just intrigued.

My curiosity leads me to ask questions that would elicit a look of "what drugs are you on?" should I verbalize them. This statement is not entirely speculative; I have actually witnessed this. One day, bored at a soccer tournament between games, I struck up a conversation about how humans see. Then I wondered aloud what it would be like if the "visible" spectrum to us were more than, or different altogether from, the colors of the rainbow. What if we could see radio waves, x-rays, gamma rays, etc.? Or what if there was a disease that altered the visible spectrum for some people? Given the imperfect nature of cell production I find it difficult to believe that every human ever made had a precisely defined range of visible spectrum. Some people must have been able to see some infrared. Likewise, others must have been able to see ultraviolet.

More recently I've become mentally obsessed with subatomic particles: electrons, protons, and neutrons. They all have a mass and they all comprise everything we know. Yet we can see through some (the oxygen and nitrogen in the atmosphere, glass) and not see through others (trees, rocks, people, etc.). What gives? Is it that we're not actually seeing through them as it is the light waves are able to maintain their integrity through the molecules by fortuitous refractions? How can that be the case if the electrons are constantly in random motion, orbiting their nucleus?

Before I can gain too much ground resolving the subatomic particles conundrum, I turn my attention to wind: what exactly is wind? Everyone knows what wind is and could describe a windy day but, really, what the fuck is it? How is it created? Yeah, yeah, high pressure to low pressure causes wind. But what causes a pressure differential? One would think that after a while all the pressure differentials would equilibrate and there would be a state of calmness everywhere. I suppose that means pressure differentials are created by surface or subsurface forces. Still, wouldn't those equilibrate eventually?

I'm noticing something similar between the last two topics. Both involve extreme scales of measure. I guess I should explore what my deal is with scales. That shouldn't take too long.