a reflection on time

This is a reprint of a post I wrote for my PensFatales grog. I was going thru my files looking for technical information and found this. So I thought I'd share. :) Good news for those who miss the Pens. We are getting the band back together, minus a few friends and adding a few new friends. First post should be up soon.
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Lisa’s Theorems of Time (as helped along by Albert Einstein and Thomas Edison)


I’m a bit of a geek. I like science. I like solid, physical evidence and proof that things exist. So when I started thinking about our topic, Time, I decided research was necessary. Turns out that time is a pretty complicated subject. Possibilities hover in the metaphysical realm as well as the physical.

Albert Einstein postulated that time is relative. It speeds up or slows down depending on how fast one thing is moving relative to something else. He also theorized that the closer we come to traveling at the speed of light, the more time would appear to slow down for us from the perspective of someone who was not moving. He called the slowing of time due to motion, time dilation.

In the 1970's some scientists used atomic clocks to test Einstein’s theories. Two clocks. Both starting at exactly the same time. One clock set up on the ground. One clock flown around the world on a jet. When the jet landed back in the same place, it’s clock was behind the clock on the ground.

Einstein was right. Time had actually moved slower.

But I think Einstein’s theory misses out on an important fact. At the end of the experiment, both clocks ended up back on Earth in the exact same place. Proving Lisa’s first theorem of time: Even if the goal is to end up in the same place, everyone’s path (and the time to follow the path) is different.

Sophie (A Bad Day For Sorry) and Juliet (Secondhand Spirits) both have books out on the shelves right now. Their paths to publication were radically different. Not better or worse, just different. But they still ended up in the same place at the same time.

Lisa’s second theorem of time: Time is never wasted. The journey is as important as the destination because everything we do and every experience we have leads us to where we are now.

Thomas Edison (to steal from National Treasure) tried and failed over a thousand times before inventing incandescent light. He has many things to say about failure but this one is most profound: “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”

It is never the time to give up.

You’ve probably guessed by now, I’m also a very big fan of the power of positive thinking and the importance of motivation. Einstein and Edison are both examples of people who tried and failed over and over but also succeeded over and over.

Which leads to Lisa’s third (and final) theorem of time: Time passes. Whether you put your effort toward your dreams or you just keep wondering and wishing you could... take a class in anthropology, learn to speak Farsi, travel to New York City, do a hundred pushups (www.hundredpushups.com), color your hair purple, or...write a novel. You won’t know unless you try. And whether you’re moving or standing still, you’ve got time.

Lisa

ps. I didn’t realize I had theorems of time until I started working on this blog post which helped me to define in my own geeky way, the relativity of time.

Night Owl Reviews Halloween Hunt

Hi all--
I'm participating in the Night Owl Reviews Halloween Hunt.

Follow this link: Night Owl Reviews




And you can win a variety of prizes. There are LOTS of excellent giveaways going on. My basket is Romance on the Edge:

I'm giving away digital copies of All Three Black Cipher Files: The Encounter (A Prequel to Blowback), Blowback, and Betrayals; and a $50 Amazon gift card.

To enter my specific contest, you need to fill in this blank:

Lisa Hughey - Blowback - Together they must expose the connection between agents’ _____, a missing teenager, and a sixty-year-old government conspiracy.

http://www.nightowlreviews.com/V5/Authors/Lisa-Hughey

Good Luck!!!

Lisa

do a good deed, get entered in a drawing to win an amazon gift card

I'm on tap to prepare dinner for a good friend's family. He is going through fairly intensive chemotherapy right now. 

What I need: A recipe for chicken that is relatively bland and uses NO DAIRY
What You Can Do: Email me your recipe at lisahughey@pacbell.net

I'll enter everyone who sends me a recipe in a drawing for a $10 Amazon gift card.

Drawing to take place Tuesday, August 13th.

Thanks for helping me out!
Lisa

friday motivation courtesy of alec baldwin

I was looking for an inspirational quote, something to really motivate today. Instead my mind kept returning to this scene from Glen Garry Glenross. It's harsh, obnoxious, and in your face, but for whatever reason, it fits my mood. This will either motivate you or piss you off.



Although Alec Baldwin is talking about selling real estate, it will work for anything. Take the sentiment and apply it to whatever you are working on today.

Enjoy and Happy Friday!

Lisa

Prequel to Blowback now available!

So if you've read Blowback you know that Jamie and Lucas have met before the book begins. I wrote most of this scene while I was writing the original book and I decided that readers might like to see how they actually met. If you are interested....

The Encounter is available at Amazon, BN and Kobobooks. Right now it is FREE on Kobo and $ 0.99 at Amazon and BN. I am trying to get Amazon to price match. Let them know if you want the book free at Amazon by telling them about a lower price. (there is a place to click on the Amazon page)

One sexy espionage agent on a mission. One smoking hot P.I. searching for a missing person. One combustible encounter.

For the first time in print, the stunningly sensual first encounter of Jamie Hunt and Lucas Goodman from the novel Blowback.

This short story is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. 

Here is the cover:

Enjoy!
Lisa

ps. Please feel free to pass this information along to your friends. :)

Passionate Cooks FREE Cookbook ...

Available NOW!

Very exciting. This free cookbook is available now at www.allromanceebooks.com

https://www.allromanceebooks.com/product-passionatecooks-944744-174.html



There are over 150 fantastic recipes in the cookbook. My recipe is the Deliciously Decadent Crab Cakes.

Seriously, these crab cakes are to die for. They are always a huge hit when I bring them to parties. They can be appetizer size or main dish size. Yum, yum!

Passionate Cooks Cookbook available for Pre-Order!!

All Romance eBooks has a cookbook: Passionate Cooks available for pre-order starting NOW. Cookbook will be available on October 1, 2012.

Click here to go to the Product Page.

My recipe is in the appetizers section. There are a ton of great recipes in this cookbook. And it is FREE!

Lisa