So, having been educated as an engineer, I find the notion of conservation of various properties to be fundamentally correct: conservation of mass, energy, angular momentum, etc.<\/p>\n
Thinking about this year\u2019s Olympics, I believe there is another quantity which is conserved: age of athletes. By now everybody knows about the controversy surrounding the age of the Chinese women\u2019s gymnastics team. I mean, really, my seven-year-old has more mature facial features than some of those girls.<\/p>\n
However, I think this is actually a necessary event. Why? Think of the Little League World Series; there\u2019s an event with the opposite problem. Some of those \u201ckids\u201d have been shaving for five years, no matter what their Dominican birth certificates say.<\/p>\n
I think, in fact, that\u2019s what happened\u2014since age can neither be created nor destroyed, and the Chinese needed a few extra years, they got \u2018em from the Dominican Republic. Conservation of age. <\/p>\n
I hear there are some hockey players in Ontario in under-18 leagues who have some years they\u2019re willing to unload, cheap…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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