Do we have it all wrong?  Maybe this woman is right!

Maybe gold doesn't have value because it isn't "backed" by anything!  And, maybe we should buy dollars because they are backed by something...  They are backed by the large criminal organization known as the US Government!

And she makes a good point.  It is also backed by The Federal Reserve.  And they'll definitely be here a few years from now (except if Ron Paul has anything to say about it - and he's getting pretty popular nowadays).

Gold?  Who knows.  It could all just disappear!

Last week (in the blog post, Einstein, the Electric Universe and Expatriation) I made mention that after a day of Googling and YouTubing I had come across the concept of the Electric Universe.  In that post, I mentioned that I failed Physics in Grade 10... no big surprise, though.  I never went to child prison.  I realized what it was at an early age.

News came out this week that physicists at CERN, the international nuclear research facility near Geneva,  found that neutrino particles sent on a 500 mile journey got there 60 billionths of a second quicker than the light speed limit allowed.

What's 60 billionths of a second here or there, you ask?   Einstein's 1905 theory of special relativity says that light travels at a constant speed, regardless of how fast an observer is traveling, and that nothing in the universe can go faster than it.If these particles truly did outpace light, that would upend physics as we know it.

I used to have a girlfriend of Vietnamese descent.  We really didn't have much in common and she was a little light on intelligence - as can be normal for young girls.  But, she was one of those asian sportscar show models that are quite popular on calendars and on the internet... so I was happy at the time none-the-less.