First, let me wish Happy Birthday Belldandy!
I was thinking (while swinging my bent curtain pole around), that spinning force fields must’ve had widths. Let me explain. Similar to Neji’s force field in Naruto, where he spins around really fast and reflects anything that comes near him. Neji’s force field is known as Hakkeshou Kaiten (八卦掌 回天). Although revisiting the episode (#61), it appears that by spinning, he’s generating a force field by releasing chakra along the way. Of course this is animation. But similar ideas have been about and the term used Naruto is: Absolute Defense. Gaara has a similar force field thing where the sand creates a bubble around him and if that is penetrated, a layer outside his skin is formed. However, my force field width really only deals with ones generated by spinning, like when movies or cartoons have a guy spinning a bo stick really fast and the bullets or ninja stars get reflected off it.
As I was saying, I was spinning my broken curtain pole around, when I got to thinking what if I can spin this stick really fast, would I be able to create a bubble around me, similar to a force field. If it’s hard to imagine, think of the ends of my stick as 2 electrons and I’m the nucleus. Those 2 electrons don’t have any strict path they’re following and there will be one point in time where it’ll have touched every point of the sphere’s surface area that it rotates along. Of course with anything spinning, it can’t be protecting all points all the time, but if spins/rotates fast enough, lets say a full cycle takes a second, it’s pretty much an absolute defense. However, if the bullet is small and faster, it can easily penetrate that through that outer layer of this so-called force field.
However, that then got me thinking, I’m not really limited to just the initial outside layer. Since I’m spinning a stick, I basically have a force field from the end of my stick to me (which I’ll be calling the width). Even if the tips of my stick doesn’t hit the bullet, as long as it’s spinning fast enough, somewhere along the stick would hit the bullet before it can even get to me. In other words, even at 1 cycle per second, I’m getting a lot more coverage than 1 second gaps.
Similarly, if I was rotating a stick in front of me, the width would be the width of the stick (the diameter of the circle). If I was rotating a stick 360 degrees, the width would be half the length (if I’m holding the center) or the full length (if I’m holding the end) of the stick.
Not really sure why I’m talking about all this imaginary stuff. I just thought it was interesting.
Last night, for some reason, even after the big feast, I was hungering for rice noodles (河粉 – took me awhile to figure out which he3 to use; really… river noodles?). Anyway, I have no idea what came over me. I was laying there about to fall asleep, and then I got thinking of the tofu, fish balls, cuttlefish, other ingredients which I’m not sure but tastes good in a hot pot soup that I had earlier that day, then it got me thinking about broth that was used. Hot pots sometimes use water, but other times, it’s mixed with chicken broth or beef broth. Then I thought about my mom using chicken broth with rice noodles, and well, that got me thinking about rice noodles. It’s a very easy dish to make. If I like it soup-less, I can put it in the microwave for 3 minutes, add soy sauce and hot sauce and be done. If I want it in soup, I’d still use the microwave, but then cook chicken broth with some veggies and mix it together. I was actually contemplating on getting up and going to 99 Ranch when I realized it was 6am. Something to think about on my next shopping trip for food. I’ve actually moved closer to 99 Ranch now (14 miles away). Wow, it’s practically next to the airport… Hmmm, maybe I’ll stick with Uwajimaya for now, I mean the staff there all speaks Cantonese anyway.