Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 02, 2019

Then my nephew has roughly two years and three months to go to get his kneecaps solidified.

Oh great. Now some stupid people will be out buying nutmeg after reading this.

I’m just mad about nutmeg. Nutmeg’s mad about me.

So there is something shorter than a nanosecond.

Planck time must be based on Planck’s constant, h.

Now I’ve got “Stop! Planck Time!” and the image of a bald, bespectacled German guy dancing stuck in my head.

Old hippie myth about the nutmeg. At least the store bought kind.

Where’s my rolling papers?!!! Get the nutmeg out !!!!! lol

So, if I tell a beautiful woman that she causes my patella to return to it’s soft cartilage stage of development, she’ll be flattered, right?

Tried nutmeg. Didl’t du nohtngi fur mi.

Now everyone is running to the cabinet to see if they have nutmeg.

On the other end of the time spectrum from minute measures of time are the vast stretches of time. It’s not often scientifically useful to have “names” for such when mathematical notation systems cover the same ground.

But in the poetic language of religion? Different kettle of eons.

Hinduism and Buddhism are both emergent from Sanskrit descended languages and have similar interests in god-time. A “great kalpa” is about 1.28 trillion years.

My favorite, though, is the idea of a Buddha Year.

Imagine a mountain eight miles in diameter and eight miles high. Once every hundred years, a small bird lights on the mountain and then flies away. A Buddha Year is the amount of time it would take for the bird to wear away the whole mountain. The life span of the Universe is one million Buddha Years.

There are many other metaphors for the Buddha Year, including a box eight miles high, wide, and long, filled with mustard seeds. Every century a man removes a single mustard seed… and, well, you get the idea.

Ooh, I’m gonna put a tablespoon of nutmeg in some applesauce and see what kind of hallucinations I have!

Huh…and I thought it was the length of time it took a pirate to execute you…

I always though “moment” was the term for the briefest amount of time, instant defines moment.

An eye blink is about 1/15th of sec. Not that fast for a reference, but is relatable I guess.

That’s nothing; many adults have a soft head even after 50 years…

OK—-stop calling me Meg…

Planck time is similar to the time between the moment my paycheck goes into my bank account’s direct deposit and disappears completely through my bank account’s bill auto-pay.