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Thanks Marbles, I am striving to be less reckless and wild . A good read. Reminded me of what's important again.

Co-op? Spar? I don't know who had blue stamps I only remember Greenshield and tesco pink ones. Co-op do funerals they have place near us - conveniently close to a busy road.

I quite fancy a move to Iceland, I'm quite partial to frozen foods but I think it would have been a big yes vote if you had offered to tow us to Tescos cos it would cut down the Taxi fares.

I'm sure the iPhone has a coaster app for a normal cup ... so that makes sense that they should release the iPad for the larger drinking vessels. Perhaps then the iCosy for the intelligent teapot ... the possibilities are endless.

No it was someone painting a portrait on an iPad - looks like a 'real' painting. Why can't you see youtube? I wouldn't waste an iPad on Rooney when a large heavy object would do ... like Gerrard for instance.

Natures' algebra Is there a divine order? Does it all add up?

Flowing back to self Three thousand posts and counting From Stig back to Stig. May the Haiku chain live for ever!

e is m,c-squared you ain't got the energy? then it's no matter.

This immortal thread with two thousand nine hundred and eighty six posts.

to while away time... with no consideration I can be thoughtless.

'It is dead easy ' would be ok.

How 'bout Solitaire? That's a lunatic idea, I've lost my marbles.

passing on the way I stopped at a wall to piss, Another gold rush.

being and doing... my fingers tap the keyboard making letters fly.

I would suggest turning this question on its head. What are memories? If they are recorded imprints of experience then do they persist. If they do then if we forget them then why would we forget? Memory at least in part is a constituent of identity, we have a collection of specific memories which consciously and unconsciously go toward forming our unique personalities. If we accept some form of existence after death then the memory loss could be to do with a kind of loosening of this collection.

moving, shadow, light magic lantern movie show is it real, or not?

let the fun begin! a TV dinner at home it's entertainment. (do they still have TV dinners? or am I showing my age, again).

all good things follow... the path to the high mountain snow capped with sugar.

To take a picture of a particle you would have to bounce photon (light) off it. You could do this to say where it is but then you would have changed its momentum and therefore its velocity.

Marbles, Obviously (and you probably realise this) what you experience day to day is the quantum world at a macro level. It's important, I think, to remember that quantum effects are real experimentally verifiable events. In fact without them we would have no semi-conductors and so no computers and we wouldn't be having this conversation. Quantum mechanics was developed to explain observed effects and became very useful when the scientists stopped trying to be mystics and philosophers and got on with the business of developing technologies. The fact is that the ordinary universe that we observe day to day does behave like this … it does behave as if a particle can be in two places at once … it is a fact that it is impossible to fix the position and momentum of a small particle … this is how things are … but the issue is about developing a coherent theory which explains all this in a way that makes sense and works in the real world. Because this is such a challenging issue there are many wild and woolly views which come from theoretical physicists (most of these will end up on the library shelves archived as curious and entertaining dead ends). What's good for Taoists is that some ideas fit very well with the Tao. Change as at the underlying principle of life for instance or interactivity (like yin and yang) generating multiplicity and the relative application of values and so on.

Thank you Gold that was totally fascinating.

More useful probably.

Seconded. Nothing against Zen though!

This is basic physics. When the light creates an interference pattern (stripes) it is because it is behaving as a wave. The two slits in effect take small samples from the wave front as it hits them. The two samples becomes light sources in themselves and as waves they overlap. When they overlap in some places they cancel each other out (the dark stripes) and in other places they add together (the bright stripes). This is the same as when waves on the surface of water interact with each other and the water surface becomes 'choppy'. But in this case because the light from the two slits are in phase (because they both come from the original light bulb) they interfere in a nice ordered pattern. When they start to look at light as photons then these are like individual particles. They should not produce interference patterns because separate particles are not waves so there is no adding and subtracting of peaks and troughs - in fact there is no connection between the photons which are like little bullets. But when they add the patterns produced by many photons the patterns re-emerge. So even though they can detect individual photon impacts (the dots) somehow the interactivity which waves demonstrate is preserved. This is called the paradoxical nature of light - in that is behaves both as separate particles and waves at the same time. This is an indisputable empirically verifiable fact. What is not a fact are the theories to explain how it happens. In order to create interference patterns the photons have to group together - so what is the connection between photons which allows this to happen? To put it in simple terms how does any one photons know where any other photon is at any one time? Or is it that a single photon can be in two places at the same time? This is a puzzle which it is worth contemplating if not least so that we can remember the mystery of the world and that we don't really understand the universe in which we live.

I like that video. It took me ages to figure out how to post vids too.