“Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Henri Louis Bergson
Christmas has really started now, the countdown is on, so just to add to the festive spirit, I have added some snow to my blog! On every page (except the admin area) you can now see snow drifting down from above, giving my blog a truly Christmas feeling 
I have used a plugin called “Let It Snow!” which has a very tidy interface, with all the settings you could possible want to fiddle with. If you have any comments on the snow, like its too fast, not enough, too slow etc. please tell me, and I will see what I can do to fix it.
Everyone all around the world is getting set for Christmas 2010, it looks like its going to be a good
Merry Christmas everyone and Happy New Year! 
What should you do if you see an endangered animal eating an endangered plant?
Should you stop the animal, to give the plant a chance, or leave it, as that is ‘nature’?
What would you do if the plant was not endangered, or if the plant was, but the animal was not?
If you put a chicken in an oven (or a vegetarian alternative) and then pause time, what happens to the temperature of the chicken?
There are several things which you could argue could happen. One is that the chicken will remain at the same temperature as is was when you paused time.
Another is that the chicken will continue to cook, due to the oven being warm.
The one that I believe would happen is this option: the chicken, oven and everything else in the universe would hit absolute zero (-273.15°C) because heat requires particles to move, even in a solid the particles move, its just not as much as a liquid or a gas. As time is completely paused, nothing is moving, so everything must be absolute zero.
Despite this pausing time is theoretically impossible, at least here on earth. Even if you manage to pause time, you would be completely frozen yourself, as all the air particles around you would be frozen, rooting you to the spot.
Does this mean that if you were in a total vacuum (I would say space, as this is regarded as a vacuum, but it is technically not a total vacuum) could you pause time and still move around?
What are your thoughts on this? Can you pause time? Also, what would happen to the chicken?
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