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President George H.W. Bush in intensive care

73 years . . . of marriage. she's gone, he's lived . . .
 
Three months tops. In some morbid way I enjoy watching presidential funerals. I enjoy the history and the “gallantry” of the situation
 
I just had my 34th anniversary. I never used to understand why spouses many times followed their mates in death so quickly. But I really get it now. I would really struggle if I lost my wife.


Me as well. I don’t even want to think about it.
 
I'm just going to say "jiffy" and get this over with. And before you think I'm making stuff up...


"The jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum. Planck time is the time light takes to travel one Planck length. Theoretically, this is the smallesttime measurement that will ever be possible."
 
I just had my 34th anniversary. I never used to understand why spouses many times followed their mates in death so quickly. But I really get it now. I would really struggle if I lost my wife.

Broken Heart Syndrome is a very real thing. Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. My grandmother just survived a cardiac arrest brought on by this condition and is EXTREMELY fortunate to still be here and in full faculty.
 
I'm just going to say "jiffy" and get this over with. And before you think I'm making stuff up...


"The jiffy is the amount of time light takes to travel one fermi (about the size of a nucleon) in a vacuum. Planck time is the time light takes to travel one Planck length. Theoretically, this is the smallesttime measurement that will ever be possible."

1/2 of a jiffy
 
The fraction one over googolplex of a jiffy.


*Await 1/2 that.
 
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