i was lying in bed

at 12:45 at night

and my roommate had his TV playing just a little too loud

and i started to think about the type of people that have TVs in their rooms

and i said to myself i’m not that kind of person

but then i thought maybe i’d like it, to have a TV

so i started to imagine having a TV in my room

then i wondered what if i were to get sick of it, what would i do with it?

and i imagined throwing it off my four story balcony

but you would have to be careful not to hit someone bellow

and there might be a blast radius

so i thought about how wide that blast radius might be

and i thought about whether it mattered from how high up the TV was thrown

and then i thought no it doesn’t because of some physics lesson that everything falls at the same speed

but no i said that’s momentum’s that’s the same for everything (even though i was wrong)

and even though the momentum stays the same the speed increases because the momentum is adding to it

then i thought about the symbol for momentum from my high school physics class

meters per second squared, but why the squared

then i think about how it’s the meters per second of change in the meters per second of speed

and i thought of how the units cancel out to get the squared

and then i said woah

and that was the end of the rabbit hole