Qattara

Another day - another round of people watching teams of people play a game in a far off country and with no connection between the watchers, the team or the country. You might as well watch the ants picking up sugar trails. Actually, Richard Feynman did once watch ants and experimented with little sugar trails to change their pathways. I work for a telecom company and there was some theory of transmission which used ants and their trails as an analogy. Feynman's biography - Genius is worth a read but his own books - Surely you're joking, Mr Feynman and What do you care what other People Think? are the business. This man really did not care about how he looked to other people; he just cared about the rest of the world and the importance of truth and understanding, not only between people but of the Universe as a whole. I think he once suggested that as a photon travels at the speed of light and that for an object at that speed, time shrinks to nothing, could all the light in the universe actually be just ONE photon travelling everywhere. I suspect I have over-simplified that and that he may have been trying to make a point rather than suggest that this was really true. It does, however, sum up a complete understanding of the Universe. Tuva or Bust is also fun if only because I already knew about it from reading sleeve notes about throat singing. I was listening to a record by Marta Sebestyn the other day and was suprised to notice some throat singing on it. She is from Hungary which is quite a way from central Asia but I don't know if there is a tradition of Throat singing there.