to not care about the structure of the universe?

[SethStarkaddersMum]

DH thinks I am being parochial and anthropocentric.
I think I have got more pressing things to worry about, like how to get more vegetables into DS1 and make DD do her reading and when DS2 is going to let me get some sleep.

AIBU to not care how many dimensions it exists in or what sort of stars are out there or any of that crap?

nbu imo. Tell dh that if he would like to worry about all the stuff you are concerned with, then that would free you up to think about stars

Good idea Saslou.
He is sitting in his office thinking about stars right now, I bet.

'DH thinks I am being parochial and anthropocentric.'

I don't know if he IBU ,but I DO know that I wouldn't want to be up against him at scrabble!

yabu - if you do not expand your horizons and think beyond your own internal affairs then can you expect your children to do the same? Why bother teaching them to read?

so they can do their own bedtime stories and I won't have to?

rofl PrincessParty.

Have you tried enthusiastically telling him how gorgeous Dr Brian Cox is and INSISTING on watching any astronomy programme with him in and treating him to a lascivious running commentary?

yanbu if he's using 'parochial and anthropocentric" pejoratively. If it were me I'd just smile and say "I'm human and I'm concerned with human stuff, would you perhaps like a discussion on female circumcision while you're chopping the cocking vegetables for tea".

are you an astronomer though?

Eg? You don't care about it? How can you not care? It's fascinating. Totally fascinating? I want to know everything there is to know about it. Send him to me. He can talk to me for hours.

I am not good at the getting food into children thing. Or the cleaning thing really. Or much domestic stuff. I do it but I'm not good at it. But stars and stuff....

Eh? Not eg

I have no choice atm as i'm studying a course that includes cosmology

Better than geology or cleaning the house though

LOL at Princessparty.

Well, if he's wanting to talk about something that interests him, and you shut him up and talk about vegetables, then that's a bit unreasonable. But if he's expecting you to initiate the discussions, then perhaps he's the unreasonable one.

I love sciencey docs. Watched a great one about Pulsars the other day.

Sorry Seth. Although am reading and enjoying Cold Comfort Farm so you are on my good side too op.

I let him talk to me about it sometimes, it's just I don't care. And I don't remember from one conversation to the next how many dimensions there are because I can't see why it matters. We only exist in 3 or 4 or something so so what if the universe has more?

also my maths isn't good enough for a meaningful conversation. Orm I will happily send him round for a chat but I hope you've got maths A level because he will insist on explaining everything properly so if you haven't it will take several days.

We never watch Brian Cox. Am I missing a treat?

I don't have maths a'level seth but I have progressed a little since my late teens and I can handle difficult stuff

I think my reference to maths A level came out wrong....
he's always forgetting I haven't got one and saying 'this bit's easy, just like A level'.
I bet Brian Cox never does that.

I'm with you SSM. Would not want to dismiss as useless the whole area (and offend MB or WIDDIA), but to me it comes on a par with Egyptology, geology, and those who research about anything over 250 years old, modern art, philosophy and so on (OK, I don't even care if I just lost any possible friends in that one sentence! (*)).

However many questions there are, I cannot summon up enthusiasm for things like the LHC (even though a friend ran data comms at CERN 20 years ago) and as for exploring the depths of space to say one star exploded umpteen million years ago just leaves me cold... I'd say "so what" but some appear to think it important... just count me out.

I remember being up early to watch the moon landing, but don't think much has been achieved since then... lots spent, a space station part built, the Chinese and others working out how to launch their own rockets (in readiness for some way to sent ICBMs to kill millions overseas, if they needed to).

We could do with spending the 'wasted' millions or billions on ending famines and civil wars, ending poverty and disease, but they're not in the same 'sexy' category the scientists use to get research grants.

Every once in a while some scientist will come up with a gem, but current (UK) funding policy is to examine likelihood of achievement based on past work (WTF - reinvent the wheel I suppose!) and in that way any 'blue sky' thinking may go unfunded, so a cure or discovery might be delayed by tens of years.

So no, SSM, you are not being unreasonable, and you're not alone in thinking the way you do.

I could say "I don't give a stuff" but even commenting in that way gives more importance to the subject than I believe it is worth!

Agree PP, I wouldn't want to try scrabble with him, either. Don't know about this Dr Cox, but Heather caught my eye, though nothing to do with what she would waffle on about.

Bit like Pan's People, or the dance troupe on Benny Hill... so maybe I could be forgiven as being a simple maile with something closer to a one track mind

(*) one song that might suit me is Chesney Hawkes "I am the one and only" as they broke the mould after casting me from titanium.

ummm, "maile" -> "male" ... told you I was a bit simple

YANBU.

I couldn't give a flying fuck either.

YABU. And get your daughter interested in that kind of stuff and the not reading problem will solve itself.

How can anyone find the amazingness of the universe boring?

brian cox....yum yum yum.

i find it really really interesting, in fact it blows my mind a bit especially if its someone like brian cox explaining it and not some crusty old oxbridge professor.

so yab a bit u! you need brian..

What's wrong with you people?
It IS interesting. Dark matter IS interesting. Telescopes, expanding universe(s, space travel, galaxies. They ARE they just ARE intrinsically interesting.