Faster-Than-Light SUVs
I've noticed that freeway traffic here tends to move somewhat above the posted
speed limit, but still, this license plate seems a bit....ambitious :)
(For the benefit of those of you who aren't science-fiction buffs or quantum
physicists,
tachyons are
particles that can only go faster than light - in fact, where it would
take infinite energy to speed up a normal particle to the speed of light, it
would
take infinite energy to slow down a tachyon to the speed of light. That's the
theory.)
Of course, maybe the person driving this SUV is a student of Greek, rather
than a physicist - "tachyon" comes from the Greek word "tachus", which means
"speedy". And, given that I saw this truck on the 101 freeway, saying "speedy"
means "I only drive when it's not rush hour".
I am still amazed at the amount of traffic in Phoenix. I have never lived in
a city of this size, and I'm starting to understand why - it's because I never
was able to drive into such a city for an interview. Everybody in Phoenix has a
car, and they seem to drive them everywhere. In fact, I'm suprised that there
are actually buildings - homes, offices, shops - in Phoenix, because I haven't
yet produced any real evidence that anyone here every actually gets OUT of their
automobiles; they seem to be like atomic particles in Brownian movement, colliding,
bouncing, sometimes speeding up, sometimes slowing down, but never actually stopping.
(Of course, the only time that particles every stop moving entirely is at absolute
zero; and one place that is in no danger of seeing absolute zero is Phoenix, Arizona :)
The temps will be above 100 F until sometime in October, by which time we will all
be dead - except, of course, for the 3.3 million Phoenicians who will never so much
as step out of their cars, because all of the cars are air-conditioned. Which may
explain why the Phoenicians are always on the freeways - because if they ever step
out of the cars, they will burst into flame. So they are condemned to keep driving,
driving, driving, until October or November, when they will finally get out of their
air-conditioned automobiles and take off their darkly-tinted sunglasses.
I'll bet that they all run to the bathrooms :)
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