Agnes by Tony Cochran for March 04, 2013

Hey, everybody has heard of doing some “heavy thinking!” An opinion can carry weight….so why can’t a thought?

In fact, opinions are a type of thoughts.The teacher is practicing thought discrimination.Free thinking today!

They could save a lot of time if they’d just move Agnes’ desk into the principal’s office.

Someone should be walking around with a neck brace capable of supporting all those heavy thoughts.

Anybody else want to weigh in?

Is that why my neck is hurting this morning? Too many heavy thoughts for a Monday morning.

And Agnes does have that scrawny, er swan-like neck, so I don’t blame her for not wanting to overload it.

But that’s just shifting energy around in the brain..Conservation of mass suggests no change in weight before and after..just in case, though, Agnes would need to be totally enclosed and weigh the enclosure with her inside. Even then you could only measure down to the limits of the equipment. Id est pounds per thought might be tested, grams per thought should be possible but even on that gross a scale, air currents would skew the measurements..All this despite the certainty Agnes is no mental light-weight.

Also, as long as Agnes maintains good posture, tensile strength is not a factor.She needs to make sure she doesn’t exceed the compressive strength lest her heavy thoughts crush her neck.

If you held a tennis ball at arm’s length it would seem weightless, but hold it for hours and it would feel heavier every second! Perhaps that’s why, the longer you think, the more tired you become… So thoughts must weigh something …in theory anyway!