Thursday, May 20, 2010

Hardy Threads

The other day I was trying to grasp the concept of nothingness. It left me baffled, especially since nothingness is something in itself. Contradictory? Who knows, except maybe Stephen Hawkins.

While worrying about this, I noticed that I had a plastic coke bottle in my hand and that I was screwing the top on and off, on and off, on and off. Then that captured my fascination. Such a simple design yet universally used and virtually failproof. It left me wondering exactly how may screw-on/screw-off cycles it would take before the top no longer worked. If anyone knows, please let me know.

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