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- Larisa: Hmm, Cloud’s party is right after school.
- Sandra: I’ll take the bus to the mall to buy a gift during lunch break.
- Sandra: Look, if I manage to get the earliest bus, I’ll have minus seven minutes to buy something before I have to return to school.
- Sandra: That should be more than enough time.
- Sandra: More than enough!
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I am not sure if this calculation makes Sandra’s ambition to win the Fields medal more or less realistic…
Marteri wrote:
Well, mathematically, negative time doesn’t break the rules…probably. At least not any more than does negative energy or negative mass. Probably.
SeanR wrote:
I am a mathematician and I can confirm. My problem with negative time is at the origin of the coordinate system.
She can just miss a lesson. Of course she might get scolded or receive detention, but if it’sjust once, it should be ok.
In fact, her teachers might even be lenient, if she explained she had to get a present for her boyfriend.
Just skip the last part of school and tank the consequences as your punishment for loosing track of things. Detention or maybe a weeks grounding. Missing the last couple hours of a single day is not that big a drama.
@ Arent:
Get detention on the day of the parry of your boyfriend is not really smart like.
Akatosh is broken… This time it will be the Rift in the North…
Of course bothing like Dragonbreaks exists…
Speaking from my own school experience in Austria… There were some people who „missed“ more than a few lessons, some skipped sports classes entirely. Not much of a consequence and as far as I know meanwhile even detention is outlawed.
Most of the regular „skippers“ eventually dropped out of school. One made it all the way to a masters degree, but that was because he was extremely disciplined when it counted.
@ Klaus:
Conversely, at my alma mater, if you cut class once, you get a detention or an in-school suspension. Cut class again, and you get an F for the quarter, regardless of your coursework.
If anyone can make negative time, Yuna can.
I would say -7 minutes is significantly less than enough time, given previous attempts. Unless said gift is a time machine, in which case I suppose she could look at it, check it out, and test it in -7 minutes.
Larissa, talk her out of it.
Why not order something from Amazon with same-day shipping?
@ Anonymous Alias:
Yes, let’s wait for Larissa to save us as the voice of reason 🙂
Which is most important, school, your boyfriend, or your dignity?
Or she could just eat lunch during lunch break and fake food poisoning. And drop by the store for a present on her way home because of being “sick”.
Go to the mall, buy a birthday card, insert note saying “I.O.U. One Birthday Wish—Sandra” and Voila! Birthday present solved! Now, Cloud’s Birthday Wish, that becomes a whole different problem. LOL.
@ ValdVin:
The times are dire indeed, when Larisa is the voice of reason.
I think Sandra already has the perfect gift.
Give it to him when you two are alone and can’t be disturbed.
I got in trouble for missing school once. It was because I managed to miss about one third of classes in a semester. So me and my mom got a stern talking to in the head office of the school. My marks were perfectly fine, however as I did go to all the exams, so they had problem with me going to the next year. Oh and “detention”, expulsion or any other punishment would be completely illegal. Being obsessed with attending all the classes or accepting that a school is somehow allowed to punish you for not attending some of them is just bonkers to me.
has anyone surgested talking to “The Order of Wen the Eternally Surprised” and seeing if they’ll let her borrow about 1 or 2 hours (when it comes to shopping, girls take forever).
Famous last words.
At least, sucubus Larisa is not at play like the last time gifts are involved
…. if this was girl genius i would think sandra was about to break through, cause she is skirting the mad place.
oledakaajel wrote:
You forgot a crucial one: sanity
Negative seven minutes, huh?
So nervous sweat allows teenage girls to generate tachyons and travel faster than light? Must be one of those lesser derivations of String Theory that didn’t get a lot of peer review.
All she needs to buy is a ribbon 🎀
Doesn’t matter that moves backwards through time have more or less the same attributes that anitmatter has moving forward in time? She’s gonna have a lot of trouble buying Cloud a present while exploding.. in an explosion as big as 20% of all the nuclear weapons in the world combined, or so.
@ SeanR:
If there is imaginary numbers, then there can be imaginary time as well. Right? 😉
Marteri wrote:
Math is a lot like playing Go, or drawing: Everybody’s gonna lose about few dozen games, or in drawing, everyone’s got a few dozen bad drawings in him, and EITHER way, you might as well knock them out and get them out of the way as quickly as possible, so you can start winning games or get to the good drawings, etc., as soon as you can.
As I recall, even Albert Einstein toyed with a variety of integers to raise the speed of light in a vacuum to, before hitting on TWO, in his most famous, and probably simplest equation for which he is known.
Couldn’t she just fake an illness or something during lunch? It would probably be easier. Although, if she did that her dad would probably make her stay home from the party.
Whatever it takes.
Cloudlionheart wrote:
*Slow claps*
Minombay S. Noimportante wrote:
I don’t know if this is supposed to be funny, but it just annoys me each time someone thinks or suggests that the entire theory could be reduced to that one equation. Often without knowing what it means, how it’s derived, and why it’s probably the least important equation in the theory.
When an idea is such that Larissa can’t bring herself to approve of it . . . there are no words in any language for how bad that is . . .