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nickgusset Shizzlehurst 03 Jan 18 3.24pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
All I can add to this discussion is that I believe that scientists have no idea about wider reality. They have a tiny glimpse of it and then make a lot of what are essentially guesses about what it is all about. Yep, can't give experts too much credence these days can you. Especially if the researched peer reviewed stuff counters your viewpoint.
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Stirlingsays 03 Jan 18 3.26pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
All I can add to this discussion is that I believe that scientists have no idea about wider reality. They have a tiny glimpse of it and then make a lot of what are essentially guesses about what it is all about. I think a lot of them would agree with you. Our view is probably blocked. Though we are inching further along that path. Still, it's our existing knowledge of how reality works at these levels that gives us the technology that we have....such as the modern computer.....GPS...blu ray players...fibre optics...well the modern internet.
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Stirlingsays 03 Jan 18 3.32pm | |
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Originally posted by nickgusset
Yep, can't give experts too much credence these days can you. Especially if the researched peer reviewed stuff counters your viewpoint.
I think what you are talking about is superposition. We know that certain quantum particles don't have the same experience of time that we do.....So I think it's more the fact that to us they appear to be in two different places simultaneously and that for us on the macro level they are. The reality of what is happening though is probably so far from our understanding that this is the only way we can frame it within our dimensions. Edited by Stirlingsays (03 Jan 2018 3.39pm)
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Lyons550 Shirley 03 Jan 18 3.38pm | |
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Originally posted by Sheks Crows Eye
I've always believed that we lived in a deterministic universe, as far as other dimensions, i'm sure there are many things in the universe that our brains cannot comprehend, a bit like sitting a dog at a computer and asking it to pull up google chrome. It makes me think of the Netflix show Stranger Things and the "upside down" portion that universe. Perhaps thats where we go when we pass away, maybe thats where Bigfoot has been all along.
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Lyons550 Shirley 03 Jan 18 3.44pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays At the moment, as is suggested we are a blind man feeling objects and imagining what they look like.
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jamiemartin721 Reading 03 Jan 18 4.28pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Once they are observed they are. Well kind of, because they have the same properties irrespective of probability - however they still remain connected somehow in a manner thats instantious (likely via higher dimensional 'communication'). Although its been a while since I was into this stuff - Position and properties on the quantum scale seem to be defined by probability, rather than time-space characteristics (and entangled in very complex ways).
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Stirlingsays 03 Jan 18 4.36pm | |
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Originally posted by jamiemartin721
Well kind of, because they have the same properties irrespective of probability - however they still remain connected somehow in a manner thats instantious (likely via higher dimensional 'communication'). Although its been a while since I was into this stuff - Position and properties on the quantum scale seem to be defined by probability, rather than time-space characteristics (and entangled in very complex ways). I'd agree it's likely.....I've been trying to understand the delayed choice quantum eraser...which is pretty heavy duty and I'd say...and of course, I'm just a layman with an average brain, that the implications for higher dimensions are there....the nature of time and communication between particles.....it's pretty amazing what they have seen. We are living in caveman times in respect to this level of understanding of nature. We have come so far yet we can only wonder as to what's beyond the horizons for future genius to discover.
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Stirlingsays 03 Jan 18 4.38pm | |
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Originally posted by Lyons550
You really need to visit the same p*** sites I do......You'll know your eyes are open alright.
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chelys London 03 Jan 18 5.53pm | |
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Does a post on a football forum exist if no one reads it?
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davenotamonkey 03 Jan 18 5.53pm | |
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Originally posted by Stirlingsays
Once they are observed they are. Even when they are not, they still are. It's pretty much one of the most fundamental tenets of wave theory, and by extension Quantum Mechanics. You set boundary conditions to analytically define the wavefunction. I don't recall instances where the integrals were ever indefinite. The point is - the universe isn't "deterministic", it is probabilistic. I'm not quite sure where dimensionality comes into it to be honest. In QM, you generalise an N-dimensional wavefunction so that it applies to any M<N dimensional space: the equation describing the wavefunction of a rabbit in 3D also describes the rabbit in 2D. As an aside, when I was super-hot at doing this stuff, I remember an exercise where I had to define the 3D Schrodinger equation (time-dependent: "TDSE") for the Hydrogen atom. I then made perturbations to the equation and re-worked the solution. The exercise asked me what had actually happened. I looked over the 6 or 8 pages of quantum mech. I'd written, and it dawned on me: the "orbiting" election (though it was of course described here as a wave) had jumped to the next energy level. I had done this stuff starting at the very basic level from GCSE Chemistry - electron energy shells, chemical reactions etc. But here it was: the very nature of matter and essentially all of Chemistry in a pure mathematical formalism. Amazing stuff. There's no room left for mysticism and religion after dabbling under the hood of the universe like that. Edited by davenotamonkey (03 Jan 2018 5.54pm)
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davenotamonkey 03 Jan 18 5.54pm | |
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As for an "object existing if no one observes it". At a very early stage of cosmic evolution (inflation: just after the big bang), parts of the universe became "causally separated" from each other - they were moving away from each other faster than the speed of light (and hence no information could be exchanged between them). These regions still existed (we can tell this from "weighing" the universe), but we could never have observed them. Sorry, I'll go back to being a pig-ignorant "Brex5hitter" now.
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Ray in Houston Houston 03 Jan 18 6.07pm | |
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Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger
All I can add to this discussion is that I believe that scientists have no idea about wider reality. They have a tiny glimpse of it and then make a lot of what are essentially guesses about what it is all about.
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