EXTREME WEIRD CRAP!

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The following text is NOT what I personally believe (At all! Even a bit!) but rather 'playing with thoughts', the same way you might ideally fidget with a piece of string.

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If you like, you can categorise the following train of thought as,

“Stupid things that pass through your mind when you are drunk.”

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PS!

DO NOT HAVE NIGHTMARES!

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“If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it,

Will it still make a sound?”

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Once upon a time, I used to think,

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This is a very stupid question!

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The sound is made by variations in any atmosphere.

A rock falling on to the ground on a totally lifeless planet in deep space still makes a sound.

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The physical laws of science don’t give a flying crap if anything can consciously hear it or not!

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Stupid Question!

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Case Closed!

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THEN...

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One night I decided to drink a load of beers while watching TV

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There is a TV show called QI made by BBC 1,

I was a repeat of it on a channel called DAVE.

One of the guests was Dr Brain Cox,

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COMMON SENSE ALERT!

The following is a transcript; so obviously, the rules of grammar are not applied!

Because it is a transcript from a naturally occurring live conversation.

So you lot in the grammar police can just sit down and shut the hell up for a moment!

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<Start>

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Dr Brian Cox :

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According to Einstein’s theory of space-time which is our best theory of space-time,

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There is no such thing as a present moment which spans the universe or indeed even the earth,

Or in fact, two people moving relative to each other,

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Stephan Fry:

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It is absurd to think of an event that might be happening “Now” in the Galaxy and me doing this! <Stephan Fry moves a pen> has been simultaneous,

That has no meaning, cosmically, does it!

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Dr Brian Cox:

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You can swap the order of them around as long as they are not causally connected.

I mean, we do not know how time works on a very fundamental level.

If I throw a glass over there and it smashes on the ground,

Then obviously I caused it to smash by throwing it.

You cannot have the smash before I throw it.

However, if you look.... Let's say Sun and the Earth,

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And the sun is eight light minutes away,

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So the sun explodes now, then we will not know for eight minutes.

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So for eight minutes anything that I do here,

I talk, and I talk and four minutes later I am still talking,

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So you can swap the order of those things around until the point when they causally connect.

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So in that case until the explosion destroys the earth.

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<End>

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QI Series 1 Episode 7 “Incomprehensible“

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Original airing Friday the 21st Oct 2011 BBC2,

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And I sat there full of beer and thought,

“Hang on that cannot be right?!”

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Because we all know how much more arrogant douche bags like me get after they have a few beers in us!

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Assuming by Causal effect (him being a physicist talking about physics) he is limiting the argument to physical causal effects then physics must be wrong!

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Because that would mean that there can never be any causal effect between a long-dead star and anyone here on earth.

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But there is!

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That long-dead star still makes physical things and effects stuff happening to us here!

And it makes real physical changes in all our lives without any physical causality!

And I can prove it! (ish)

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I present just four possible pieces of evidence for you all to consider.

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Exhibit A

The Painting “Starry Night” by Van Gough

Which then lead to the Hit Song “Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)” by Don McLean © Universal Music Publishing Group.

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Exhibit B

The child's song “Twinkle Twinkle little star”

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Exhibit C

Horoscopes

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Exhibit D

Dr Brian Cox himself and his entire scientific career!

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Because while there cannot be any direct physical causality from the long-dead star, we are most definitely affected and inspired by our observation of it!

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And those observations and inspirations make us create physical things such as art.

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And that art makes a vast amount of money (whose value is also a commonly held delusion) which is used to hire people, feed them and allow them to pay taxes.

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And those taxes can be spent by governments to produce weapons that kill people.

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And just as any other chaos butterfly effect, goes on and on!

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All from something that can NOT have any physical Causality with us!

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Yes this whole argument seems a little pedantic,

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Ok, I hold my hand up and admit it!

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It is very pedantic and douchy of me!

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And you could argue that,

‘Photons of visible light from that long-dead star still travel and hit the eyes of us observers to make us feel so inspired!’

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Like the thrown glass (Photon of visible light) that smashes into the floor (our eye).

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The Observation cannot come before the existence of that long-dead star, throws out its light out into the dark.

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Sure the amount of physical mass of those photons Vs the potential weight of the crap storm of physical effects that chain react here seems a little disproportionate!

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But hey “Such is life”

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But then it got me thinking about the nature of our ability to observe and the potential mystical non-science connections.

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Physics:

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If you have a single photon

(maybe it is from our long-dead star).

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And you direct or aim it in a plain,

To try to get it to travel through a small slit,

Out the other side,

Travel a short way,

Then through another slit,

To hit a target on the other side.

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According to physics,

If either slit is observed it will not make it through both slits, (it will miss its target)

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BUT

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If Neither sit is observed,

(Say the physicist doing the experiment needs the toilet, has a tea break or simply turns his back.)

Then the Photon will make it through and hit its target.

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However

If the Photon of visible light is observed after it has been shot in the correct direction, but BEFORE it hits the target.

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(The physicist suddenly pops his head round to corner!)

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It will NOT have gone through both slits!

(Even though that is the only possible path it could have taken to successfully hit the target!)

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And this has been PROVEN!

(If I am wrong about this someone please tell me in the comments below)

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So a physical effect of a photon is changed by whether it was observed or not!

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The same sort of Photon as was shot out by our long-dead star!

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THIS IS WHERE IT STARTS TO GET WEIRD.

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I REMIND YOU AGAIN!

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DO NOT HAVE NIGHTMARES!

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Observation is an act of consciousness and will.

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NOTE!

By Observe, I mean by any means,

Not just Eyesight!

Hearing, Touching, Tasting etc, etc, all count as a conscious choice to enact observation as well!

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By simply being aware of something and having the will to perceive it you can change what physically happens!

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One of the Tenants of some wicker Majik is,

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See

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Know

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Will

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Dare

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Keep Silent.

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There are variations depending on the branch of Mysticism being studied, but most follow along with the same lines!

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Majik says that being conscious of something and making the small act of will to observe it can change reality.

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Physics says being conscious of something and making the small act of will to observe it can change a physical causal effect.

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SO IS MAGIC REAL?!

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Errrrr Anyone else feeling a little “Spooked” yet?

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So this opens up this question.

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If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it,

Will it still make a sound?

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George Berkley, Treaties concerning the principles of human knowledge 1710

Though obviously that version was written in a 1710 style!

The current phrasing appears to have originated in the 1910 book Physics by Charles Riborg Mann and George Ransom Twiss.

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How much power does the act of consciously observing things have?

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And what if it is not a one-way street?

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What is the thing we make the act of will to consciously observe, can affect us back?

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"He who fights with monsters should be careful lest he thereby becomes a monster.

And if thou gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will also gaze into thee."

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil. 1886

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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, whose critiques of contemporary culture, religion, and philosophy centred on a basic question regarding the foundation of values and morality.

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Personally, I do not like him.

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I think he is a total arse hat teaching how to use intellectualism to self-licensed and justify doing evil stuff!

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Probably because he was inappropriately romantically obsessed with his own sister!

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The scary thing is,

That consciously observing can affect us back?

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Because while you noting (or not noting) the path of a visible light photon can change what 'it' does!

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The same conscious act of will to observe that visible light photon will affect you back by making you inspired to both create, feel, love and hate!

And destroy!

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I Now Choose To Drink Far Less Beer!

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