Summer, Soccer and de Sitter Space!

Summer's finally here, bringing all the festivals, outdoor activities and sports back to Montrealers.

The summer soccer season started just today. My experience of playing in intramural soccer seasons has proved me the only good I do for the team I play for is to increase the unpredictability of the team drastically. For instance, in the last year of my undergrad I played for the physics team. We started off with unbelievable scores standing first in our group. The team who stood at the second place after us eventually became the champion and the third team got the third place in the final ranking. While everyone was expecting to see our fabulous victories in the playoffs, we were defeated in the first match zero to nine!.

A better example is maybe the indoor soccer season last winter with "Bucky Balls". The first two matches we won 14-3 and 18-6!!! the next two matches we lost 1-4 and 4-5 and the last two matches no body showed up!!!.

Last outdoor season with Bucky Balls. We started with a 6-0 victory. Then a 2-2 draw followed with a 0-1 defeat while our team was playing 11 to 6!!!

Our first match of the new outdoor season finished just an hour ago in Molson Stadium. We lost the game 0-4. I have absolutely no idea what is going to happen in the next match. It is chaotic!.

I'm too tired to write about the thermodynamics of de Sitter space right now. Briefly, I've to say it is amaaaaaaaaaaaazing!

p.s.: Here the definition of seasons is a bit different!. Roughly speaking, there is a long winter starting from December lasting for almost four or five months -like this year- followed by three or four weeks of mild weather which is the so-called spring. Right away after comes the hot summer starting with the trees blossoming and the temperature going up to twenty something. Normally the weather stays like this up to the end of September.