First, Albert Einstein suggests time gets a bit loopy out in the cosmos, crumpling like tissue paper within black holes. Then, we learn in quantum mechanics the motion of subatomic particles is impossible to measure and time tends to evaporate. Next, weird science's latest revolution, we‘re being served up "string theory," with its remarkable capacity to describe inner and outer space with a common mathematical rubric, as quarks and their ilk are replaced by minute resonating "strings" and a universe with 11 dimensions. Last, a rare sequential time sequence and date pattern will occur Saturday morning: 10:11 a.m. on 12-13-14. In recognition of this infrequent occurrence, three local Volkssport clubs - Evergreen Wanderers in Tacoma, Daffodil Valley Volkssport in Puyallup and Capitol Volkssport in Olympia - have organized a guided group 10 km (6.2 mile) walk beginning at 9:30 a.m. sharp, so that all walkers are on the trail at 10:11 a.m. on 12-13-14. Imagine if they began at 9:10.11 a.m. Whoa.

Volkssport Time Sequence Stride, 10:11 a.m., Fort Steilacoom Park, 8714 87th Ave. SW, Lakewood, free, $3 for American Volkssport Association credit, capitolvolkssportclub.org