11-15-2015, 05:04 AM
(11-15-2015, 03:20 AM)furious_blue_imp Wrote: In High School I was an 'artsy' kind of person. My life was art and music with absolutely no interest in Mathematics or the Quantitative Sciences. A few years after graduation I needed a job and a cheap means of transport to get to the job. Thus was acquired my first bike a '73 CB350. Having no money, and this being a late 60's early 70's bike meant that there was lot of maintenance to do and that I was going to be doing it myself.
This was my first introduction to the world of cause and effect. That there are predictable physical consequences from specific quantitative inputs..
As my interest in motorcycles grew so did my desire to understand just what in the heck is going on with these things and the physical world in general.
This led to taking remedial High School math classes at the local Junior College along with basic Chemistry and Physics classes.. leading to a 4 year BS in Physics.. And now a life immersed in computers and software.
The irony of the scholarly pursuit was of course that I was introduced to modern physics in which there is no direct quantitative cause and effect (quantum physics).. and the world in which things physically shorten, time moves slower or faster, or things can 'weigh' more or less depending on how fast they are going. The thing we measured to be 5 feet long will be measured to be 4 feet long by someone else..
But I'm content riding Newtonian motorcycles and reveling in the predictable numbers...
What an interesting story, the need for cheap transportation indirectly leading to a career.
