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?

Quite agree cat. In fact i am shocked to my core to hear intelligent people professing their lack of interest with such relish.

See! I told you I was shocked. It is the most interesting area of research there could possibly be. We might be able to cure all disease or stop war (unlikely given the human race ) but who cares - if all we are going to do with it is exist and not discover more and more about the world/universe around us, we might as well be moles.

I am interested in London Underground.

Any takers?

No?

Actually, moles are interesting too . THere are very few things that I don't find interesting, really and truly.

Awe and wonder is a great escape from domestic drudgery.

I beleive you cat. I quite like moles. I was just looking for the a suitable self-concerned species that never further than it's nose.

I don't get it.

Why should you be interested in the structure of the universe?

People are interested in different things, I'm interested in science, DH isn't he's interested in poltic, it's possible tethersend isn't but she's interested in the London Underground.

So in a nutshell you're not being unreasonable.

quote this at him

actually, it is fairly interesting & can help keep things in perspective - what does it matter if dd doesn't do her homework? universally speaking, it doesn't.

Not everyone finds thew same hings interesting, and that doesn't mean there is anythgin wrong with thewm.

I find the universe interesting,m but I agree with Seth in that is doesn't matter, I don't care about it, although I like finding out about it.

I like people who are passionate about something interesting, even if I don't share their passion, I respect it and find it an attracvtive quality to have.

I do think that whether or not a kid eats vegetables or how soon they start reading are not important in the grand scheme of things, but very little is isn't it?

In fact, is anythgin important, in the grand scheme of things?

I am

deadbody -
NO, cosmically speaking, nothing matters. spent a whole night pondering that one, helped by a few bottles of wine...
amazing how it makes you worry less. but the bottle of wine is important.

Nothing matters apart from me of course.

well I am not in the least interested in American anti-trust law, yet my dh is on a mission to instruct me in every last detail of it. So I feel your pain.

After a day trying to figure out what the difference is exactly between softball and baseball, how to do division "new maths" (vomit emoticon) style, wondering if it is ok if dd regularly only gets 4 and not 5 portions of fruit/veg etc and trying to get out of being on the swim team council etc, anyone coming at me wanting to explain dimensions in space using A level maths explanations is likely to encounter a frying pan

"Invent a teleporter and calorie free chocolate and I'll listen"

Riven - exactly. If they could do me time travel I'd be keener, but apparently Stephen Hawking thinks it isn't even possible. Turned me right off the whole subject of space-time, that did.

Stephen Hawkings? What does he know?

actually I do find the structure of the universe quite interesting (not wildly), however I couldn't cope with the maths explanation side of it. Good grief

have a look here darling, I'll prove it to, don't worry you'll be able to follow it - just A level maths

I'm undecided on this issue. Somebody has to care about cooking and cleaning etc or the next generation would grow up feral, on the other hand if everybody concentrated on the day to day drudgery then the human race would never advance.

I'm glad that there are passionate people out there who seek out knowledge for its own sake because it broadens my horizons and makes my life more interesting. Plus you never know when dry and boring science might bring something useful to the general population (the microwave oven, teflon, satellites, the atom bomb).

On the whole I think your DH is being U for believing it's wrong and small minded not to be as passionate as him about his interests. But yabu for not believing that all knowledge is worth persuing. I may be biased here as I am fascinated by astrophysics but lack the brain power to study it myself.

I might care later, though, when I've had some sleep. But surely IANBU in not caring when I have 3 children under 5?
When they're all grown up and sleeping and eating their vegetables without my input I may have broader and more intellectual interests.
I don't mind other people pursuing it but I don't feel like it right now.

time travel isn't possible???

I felt more inclined when I was at home with young children really. I started a degree when my youngest was a baby - to give me an excuse to ponder rather than do the washing I think. Now I work full time and don't have enough time to ponder .

If you have 3 under 5 then YANBU to not care about anything.

Offer to swap with your DH, he can deal with the children on his own for a day while you lie in be with your eyes closed comtemplating the universe. At the end of the day ask him how many scientific advances he's made.

Apropos of nothing my DP said this the other night while I was washing up 'If the LHC doesn't validate the existence of the Higgs Boson, the last 30 years of physics will have been a waste of time and we'll all be in big trouble'

I wasn't quite sure what the correct response should be - so I just asked him to hand me a tea towel.

I doubt you will care that much later on. My dd is older and at school but when she is in bed, I'm bushed. I can still talk but I don't fancy having laws stuck under my nose "you must read this"

why?

No one has tried explaining mathematical calculations to prove something or other about the structure of the universe but my guess is I would not be interested

YANBU. The most amazing thing about the universe is that to you the most important being in the whole shebang is you - and your need to shovel vegetables effectively. Mind-blowing really. All that spacey stuff, and it all boils down to you.

Web Dude, some learned chap on Radio 4 last week said that spending on space trips etc is not frivlous but actually benefits the rest of science, as it immediately doubles the number of students of science at all levels of study - he was arguing that a trip to Mars might have immense benefits to the human race in that respect.