Interesting Conversation on the Basis of Reality

[KFC911]

It's still early, and I haven't eaten my morning acid...

I'll have to get back to ya on this ...

[Crowbob]

Originally Posted by DanielDudley

At some point the difference is, what does my interaction do to alter reality, and what kind of interaction, and at what level ?

This comment is like light itself; two things at the same time, a wave and a particle. Or like ****, both a noun and a verb, depending.

The comment is both interesting and irrelevant. If my actions have some unknown effect on the universe (which is clearly does) so do everything else's actions have some unknown effect on the universe. The result is chaos over which there is no control.

So yes, my action alters reality. An astounding revelation most of us usually discover well before age two.

[klm2500hd]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

So if this is a program, I wouldn't mind a reset now and then!

But would you be aware of a reset?

[sc_rufctr]

Could this guys brain exist in a program only?

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Using the equations of Lorentz, if you travel at the speed of light you will arrive anywhere in the universe instantly, due to space contraction. So a photon could be anywhere in the universe at any given time, in its own reference frame. But not from an observer's reference frame. We see the photon traveling in a straight line (well, sort of), but the photon thinks it's everywhere at once.

So I guess time really is just a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff, as The Doctor states.

Mr Roddenberry postulated that in order to be everywhere at the same time one must exceed Warp 10. Clearly Lorentz was a man of his time and not entirely correct.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Mr Roddenberry postulated that in order to be everywhere at the same time one must exceed Warp 10. Clearly Lorentz was a man of his time and not entirely correct.

Was that supposed to be in green font? Roddenberry was a better physicist than Lorentz? The Enterprise had a warp drive, which means it warped space to span distances faster, due to the shorter distance. Of course, simply traveling really fast contracts, or warps, space. So a warp drive isn't necessary. And if it is, if you travel at Warp 1, that's like going at the speed of light and that's as fast as you need to go.

Another thought. If all photons are everywhere at once, how can darkness exist? Because from our reference frame in a dark room, photons are not everywhere at once. We know that because it's dark.

[hcoles]

I thought The Amazing World of Gravity was very good. I got it on Amazon.

[john70t]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

So if this is a program, I wouldn't mind a reset now and then!

I am in a large bottle with Barbara Eden clones who each smell very nice.

[M.D. Holloway]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Another thought. If all photons are everywhere at once, how can darkness exist? Because from our reference frame in a dark room, photons are not everywhere at once. We know that because it's dark.

light, dark - both temporary...dance of the WuLi masters...

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by ckissick

Was that supposed to be in green font? Roddenberry was a better physicist than Lorentz? The Enterprise had a warp drive, which means it warped space to span distances faster, due to the shorter distance. Of course, simply traveling really fast contracts, or warps, space. So a warp drive isn't necessary. And if it is, if you travel at Warp 1, that's like going at the speed of light and that's as fast as you need to go.

Another thought. If all photons are everywhere at once, how can darkness exist? Because from our reference frame in a dark room, photons are not everywhere at once. We know that because it's dark.

Of course, lighten up Francis.

[ckissick]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Of course, lighten up Francis.

You fail to use green again... I kill you.

[scottmandue]

[scottmandue]

Originally Posted by cstreit

42 wasn’t it?

Absofarkinglutly!

Sent from the mothership hiding behind the moon and controlling all your minds

[74-911]

The reality is, you have your reality and I have my reality.