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43 minutes ago, wandelaar said:

… to draw this conclusion.

I haven't drawn any conclusions yet.  But I would question the double-slit experiment.

And true, some things aren't as easy as they appear.

Yeah, I suppose we could say that anything that cannot be defined has infinite possibilities.

Just now, dwai said:

Maybe that's how it works. Once you let go, there's nothing left to cling to?

You've got a nice flow of wisdom this morning.  Keep it up.

I think I would hold off with the friendship with that one.  Maybe just:  "RUN AWAY!"

2 hours ago, dwai said:

And did you have to worry about it shattering ever since? 

Good point.  There wasn't even anything left to let go of.

We never hear from or about normal people.  I do think they exist though.

Friendship is great and so are hamburgers.

I am about as unpredictable as a throwing stick.

I let go of a vase once and it shattered into about fifty little pieces.

10 hours ago, Zen Pig said:

nothing new. 

Yeah, same stuff, just different colors.

15 minutes ago, Patrick Brown said:

This might be worth a watch even though it's from 2013:

I listened to a bit of this.  I will get back to it at some point as he is talking about stuff I'm still not comfortable with.  Maybe he will hit on something that will help.

Yes, Quantum Theory seems to work well at the atomic and sub-atomic level but the theories break down when applied non=quantum 'real' universe.  This is why there is a search for a 'unifying theory'.

Watching TV last night, the folks were talking about Black Holes and it was admitted that when approaching a Black Hole and going beyond the event horizon the current understandings of the physics of the universe break down.  The physics of a Black Hole are still undefined.

Someone recently said that if your solution to an equation includes infinity you have made an error somewhere and you need go back and re-work you equation.

3 minutes ago, Patrick Brown said:

Is this a fact?

It was a fact until quantum theory started becoming popular.

The particle is the smallest measurement of physicality.  So, yes, everything is made of particles.

A wave has a purpose; a particle has no purpose until it becomes an aspect of a wave.

~  This is a wave.  There many points along the path of this wave.  These points are particles.

Now, I'm not saying that I am wiser than Max Planck.  Just saying that I have to remain with my present understanding until I am convinced that my logic is invalid.

3 minutes ago, Patrick Brown said:

Bit like wave-particle-duality and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

A particle is a particle and a wave is a bunch of particles aligned in some manner.

Uncertainty exists only because you don't know.  Some people have peeked into the box and they know.  Reality is what it is regardless of our uncertainty (unknowing).

And yes, most cats can find ways to entertain themselves.  Most people have a hard time with that.

I still have a problem with identifying a tax collector.  I have no verbal basis for my problem.

Yeah, being normal isn't all that noteworthy anyhow.

12 hours ago, Michael Sternbach said:

 

Well, since (as far as I know) you don't believe in the existence of a non-physical self or soul, wouldn't it be more appropriate for you to say, she is a sexy body?

One point for you.

(And I don't give out points lightly.)

Well, she's got a sexy body.

Fair.  I'm glad I commented so that you could respond.  Yes, I saw that he has passed.  But he will be remembered for a very long time.

I think Alexander The Great said that first.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

That which man apprehends by observation is only outward form and color, name and sound.  Form and color, name and sound do not reach to reality.

"There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion." - Carl Gustav Jung