Reality might not be real.

[Fridgemagnetman]

You mean like public and religious schools?



I don’t see what one has to do with the other. We learn best by observing as much unfiltered reality as we can. Literacy and driving are human inventions, and we need some form of teaching, but even infants can understand the uses of cause and effect.



Yep. Because so often, mazes have cheese at the end

What kind of cheese?

 

[Full Steam]

You know that feeling when you find a thread where people are discussing a special interest of yours?

It's like a dramatic orchestra starts up in yourself as you try and fail to force yourself to read all the replies before diving it.

I can and do talk about this stuff for hours. I no longer regale my wife about quantum physics at 6.30 in the morning though.

Solipsism. I used to semi believe that at school, and it caused a bit of detachment with reality. It's very logical and attractive, and I think while it's unlikely the ultimate truth we do have things to learn from it.

My current belief is that we all have such a magnitude of effect on our own personal realities that each can be considered a seperate universe, meshed with everyone else's.

Regarding Heisenberg. I've never read about pilot waves, but I will.

If the uncertainty principle is just about lack of info, how can we explain the quantum xeno effect?

The xeno paradox was created by a Japanese ancient heretic mathematician who had the following problem:

Consider an arrow in flight. At any one moment it is static in the air. How then does it move?

The uncertainty principle backs that up. The more we know about the arrow and it's position, the less we can ever know about it trajectory.

At a quantum level, this means that if we can measure the position of a particle often enough it should not actually decay (lose an electron)

That has been seen experimentally., where experimenters measured the position of quantum particles billions of times per second. I think it was barium electrons which lose electrons so predictably that they are the timing mechanisms in nuclear clocks. The experimenters measured the decay in smaller and smaller chucks until the decay stopped.

Basically, you could stop a nuclear bomb exploding just by measuring it often enough, like billions of times per second.

We are not just passive observers, we fundamentally change systems just by being here. That goes from systems as small as quantum particles, to systems as big as planets.

Einstein once mocked quantum theory "does that mean the moon is not there if no one is looking at it?

Well he was wrong.

 

[Crossbreed]

Consider an arrow in flight. At any one moment it is static in the air. How then does it move?

Said "moment" is just as elusive as the geometer's "point." If the center of our galaxy is static, that means that the Earth (including you & I) is traveling approximately 136 mi/sec through those "points," when considering just its orbit (18.55 mi/sec) around the Sun and the Sun's orbit (135 mi/sec) in the galaxy.

 

[pjcnet]

Quantum entanglement proves that reality isn't what it appears as it defies distance and physics, in fact distance becomes totally meaningless. In summary pairs or groups of particles are generated or interact in ways such that the quantum state of each particle cannot be described independently of the others, even when the particles are separated by a large distance, in fact the distance doesn't seem to matter with no limit and the interaction is instant, E.g. nothing seems to travel or communicate between particles, they are instead directly linked together no matter the distance they're apart.

Time dilation is a theory that has been allegedly proven with atomic clocks, it shows that the passage of time can be altered by velocity and gravitational field, again reality isn't what it seems.

There is obviously a huge amount that we still don't understand about our reality, but I believe there's a lot that we will never understand since we are simply not capable of contemplating it, for instance people can't truly understand infinity distance or infinity time, try visualising infinity distance, something that never ever ends. But there's obviously much much more we can't ever understand or even contemplate, we wouldn't even be-able to think about many such things let alone understand them. In the similar way a dog will never ever think about or understand that the Earth is close to a spherical shape and it will never understand the layout of our solar system, it doesn't matter how much you try to train or tell a dog, it wouldn't ever be-able to contemplate such things. We understand that radio waves exist and have learnt to use them to our advantage, but a dog couldn't contemplate them being there since it can't sense them. There's many things that are most likely there that we can't sense and still haven't been able to detect using science, in our reality as we perceive it they don't exist.

 

[WereBear]

But still... it moves. (What Galileo was supposed to have said after he talked the Inquisition out of torturing him to death.)

We aren’t sitting on the rim of a black hole. We are carbon envelopes trapped by our brain structure to live our lives in a linear format. We can fast forward with imagination and uncertainty, we can rewind with memory which is more reconstructive than accurate, and we always return to the moment we are in.

Which we tend to not even notice, we are so busy playing with the remote.

I take pregnenolone to keep my brain running smoothly. I was on an overnight work assignment, and woke up at 2 AM in the midst of some paranoid delusion that I had to get out of this strange room, and somehow I had to walk home where my husband woud be angry with me.

Fortunately, I then realized I had messed up my supplement schedule, took some preg, within ten minutes my brain was normal, and I was in touch with actual reality.

That’s the difference. My sincere panic did nothing to reality: which is that I had nothing to fear, my husband is not in the habit of being upset with me, and I had no reason to walk home.