Groucho's Fact Hunt

[JammyP]

Reality requires our consciousness to exist in the way that we observe it to be.

Basically without our consciousness, reality as we know it doesn't exist.

A fact because it's proven by this famous mindblowing experiment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment

The many interpretations of how, why or what it means doesn't alter the fact of the result that the observed reality is different to the not-observed...at least on the quantum level, and as the realm of particles make up all matter it's fair to say it makes up reality as we know it.

Brings to mind the classic old musing about whether a tree falling in the forest makes a sound if no one is around to hear it. Hence why the simulation idea is gaining more ground as our own computing capabilities improves.

Just have to say, that Wikipedia entry was not the easiest thing to take on board at the end of the day.

 

[dholliday]

Just have to say, that Wikipedia entry was not the easiest thing to take on board at the end of the day.

it's a head-wobbler alright, i've no shame in admitting i got along better with the Simple English wiki:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young's_double-slit_experiment

 

[JammyP]

it's a head-wobbler alright, i've no shame in admitting i got along better with the Simple English wiki:

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young's_double-slit_experiment

I had never met simple.wikipedia before. That is going to be a boon at homework time.

Just going to open my tin and see how the cat is.....

 

[dholliday]

I had never met simple.wikipedia before. That is going to be a boon at homework time.

Just going to open my tin and see how the cat is.....

Schrödinger's cat?

 

[JammyP]

Schrödinger's cat?

That's the monkey
https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrödinger's_cat

 

[JammyP]

Good this simple.wikipedia thing...

https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg's_uncertainty_principle - there is no "uncertainty" in nature: the uncertainty exists only in our knowledge about it.

 

[bigjonny]

Didn't Neil Young write a song about the younger Gary ?...

.......he said he had a heart of gold.

 

[dholliday]

Good this simple.wikipedia thing...

yeah it's helped me understand some fundamentals about complex subjects, then i can go back to the normal page if i like and get deeper. we're spoilt to be honest nowadays with wikipedia, youtube and google-search...the trick is to focus tho' as it's too easy to skim-read (and hence only skim-understand) stuff.

 

[deipnosophist]

.......he said he had a heart of gold.

...and needed a maid

 

[summerisle]

 

[Blackwell Livermore]

Graham Coxon's song "Spectacular" off his "Happiness in Magazines" album was inspired by a picture of actress Shannyn Sossamon that he saw on his computer.

 

[Bluesaint]

Up to fifty thousand British men and women volunteers fought in the American civil war. 90 percent of them on the unionist side.

 

[d34noj]

Graham Coxon's song "Spectacular" off his "Happiness in Magazines" album was inspired by a picture of actress Shannyn Sossamon that he saw on his computer.

To be fair, she is spectacular.

 

[summerisle]

 

[Groucho]