Cartoon; the reason for my science fantasy!

I was such a Cartoon freak in my childhood years, that I watched each and every show on the Cartoon Network. I loved them because of the animation and to the creativity that they held. I am much thankful to cartoons to much extent for evoking this eternal love for science.
I remember once watching a cartoon at cartoonnetwork known as Powerpuff girls when I was a small kid....The episode that made me curious about what happened just when the girls sped up to the speed of the light. At that time I was too young and also I had no interest in science. All I could do was enjoy and laugh watching the animation in sheer amazement and pleasure. But when I was a little much grown up and as I was interested much in classical physics and fictional science, my attention was drawn back to that episode I had watched few years back....let me tell you what had actually happened in that episode.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4h2N_RKwCqk&feature=related



    Powerpuff girls once got out of their school, and as they had supernatural powers, they flew up in the sky. As they were flying, Buttercop challenged for a race to the girls and so she paced. The other two girls also increased their speed to the extent that everything seemed to stop and they could literally see packets of light on their sideways passing slower than themselves(don't know if anything travels faster than the light). Then they returned back down to the earth. Just to their amazement they entered a world they were totally unfamiliar with...in it everything was destroyed, the villans had taken over the city and the most shoking news They HAD DISAPPEARED FOR MORE THAN 50 YEARS. How could that be? They had entered another realm , maybe a Parallel universe or maybe they had encountered Time travel, but whatever it was it was my first peak (step) into the world of fascination with science. Fact or Fiction these things may turn up to be, but they are just the things that I Love to think of, dream of and talk of.
       Later, when I was in grade 8, I read an article writen by my cousin Manish Thapa. May be it was my good day because it was just what I had been searching for since I watched that show. The article was about the possibility of time travel. In it, he had mentioned about the twin paradox in which one of the twins stays on the earth and the other sets on a journey at the speed of light just to find out on his arrival that his brother on earth has aged more than himself. It helped me explain what had happened in that episode I'd mentioned above. Then I started doing research about such things which we call fictional science. Whenever I used to get a chance to meet my cousin I used to discuss with him about it. I often used to ask my elder brother(Aashish bhattarai) about such things. We used to discuss about science fantasies, the possibility of science and all. I started watching Discovery and History since then. All the programs related to science fiction. Even though I understood a very little from what I watched because of the new terms I encountered with...but everytime I watched the documentries and videos, I made
sure that I learnt a little bit more than the previous time I had watched the show. Each time I got a new term that I was unfamiliar with, I took the help of dictionary and the internet to find out what it was. I got more deep about these things and I fell love in with it.


     Other cartoon that inspired me were DEXTER and JIMMI NEUTRON. Each and every episode were related to Physics and they always filled me with lots of querries within myself! One another Cartoon I liked was Ben 10, it was about aliens. The episode "Paradox"...expecially was the most exciting one.


       Einstein once said (or maybe not) that we should tell fairy tales to children if we are to make them curious. But I say, Watching a Cartoon worth watching is also not so much a bad idea!;D


"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing." -Albert Einstein