#every subatomic possibility of existence

[mysticstronomy]

WHAT IS "NOTHING" IN SPACE??

Blog#433

Wednesday, September 4th, 2024.

Welcome back,

We can define physical reality pragmatically as all that which exists in the cosmos, and there is no such thing as complete emptiness in it. Quite the opposite, it seems that the more we learn about nature, the busier space becomes. We can contemplate the idea of a metaphysical emptiness, a complete void where there is nothing. But these are concepts we make up, not necessarily things that exist. Even calling nothingness a “thing” makes it into something.

Leucippus and Democritus, the Greek philosophers credited with the invention of atomism — that everything is made of tiny bits of matter that cannot be divided — suggested the joint existence of atoms and the void. Atoms make up everything that exists, but they move in a complete emptiness, the void.

As an exercise in the always evolving way we figure things out about the world, we can make a list of the things we know fill up empty space. (The list does change. For example, 120 years ago, it would have included the ether, the medium in which light was supposed to propagate.)

Starting with classical physics, the key concept is that of a field. A field is a spatial manifestation of a source. If an object sensitive to the field is placed within its range, it will respond in some way, usually by being attracted to or repelled by the source that creates the field.

In classical physics we know of only two forces, gravitational and electromagnetic. Every object with mass attracts every other object. You attract and are attracted by everything that exists — by butterflies and whales, by the Sun and all the planets of this Solar System and across the Universe.

The intensity of an object’s gravitational field grows in proportion to its mass and decays with the square of the distance to it. In that sense, space is filled with interconnected fields that link us to the rest of the Universe.

Gravitational fields extend their threads to all corners of space. Since fields carry energy, we can say that space is filled with the energy of these gravitational fields. Electromagnetic fields also have energy, of course. But since electric and magnetic forces can be attractive and repulsive, they usually are neutralized and rarely manifest themselves at great distances.

At the quantum level, space gets even busier. Indeed, quantum physics tells us there is no such thing as zero energy. In the world of atoms and subatomic particles, movement is constant, and there is an energy associated with a particle’s residual motion called zero point energy, or vacuum energy.

If we now connect this fact to the famous E=mc2 formula, which states that energy and matter may be interconvertible, it is possible for particles of matter to spring out from the energy of the vacuum — the energy of empty space.

The Universe itself could emerge in this way, as we have discussed. The fact that matter may come out of what we would call “nothing” shows that the “nothing” of quantum physics is far from a complete void. Virtual particles appear and disappear like bubbles in a boiling soup. In the current view of quantum physics, the void bubbles continuously with the creation and destruction of matter particles.

We met the concept of fields in classical physics, but it carries over to quantum physics with even more dramatic effects. We no longer refer to particles, in fact, but to the fields that create them. An electron or a proton is an excitation of the electron or the proton fields, respectively, like small waves drifting on the surface of a lake.

Particles are pictured as knots of energy moving in their fields, with physical properties like mass.

The physical picture that emerges is that of space filled with quantum fields that boil up with real and virtual particles. As the Fox said to the Little Prince in Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s fable, “What is essential is invisible to the eyes.” This is as true for love and friendship as it is for the “nothingness” of space.

Originally published on https://bigthink.com

COMING UP!!

(Saturday, September 7th, 2024)

"WHY IS EVERYTHING IN SPACE ALWAYS MOVING??"

[australianbeyonce]

𝒒𝒖𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒔 𝒊’𝒗𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝑱𝒐𝒆 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒛𝒂’𝒔 ‘𝑩𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑯𝒂𝒃𝒊𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑩𝒆𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒀𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇’

ch 1: the quantum you

we are part of a vast, invisible field of energy, which contains all possible realities and responds to our thoughts and feelings.

your thoughts have consequences so great that they create your reality.

we don’t have to settle for our present reality; we can create a new one, whenever we choose to.

your thoughts shape your destiny.

everything in your life is not solid matter—rather, it’s all fields of energy and frequency patterns of information.

energy responds to your mindful attention and becomes matter.

everything in our physical reality exists as pure potential.

if subatomic particles can exist in an infinite number of possible places simultaneously, we are potentially capable of collapsing into existence an infinite number of possible realities.

if you can imagine a future event in your life based on any one of your personal desires, that reality already exists as a possibility in the quantum field, waiting to be observed by you.

you are powerful enough to influence matter because at the most elementary level you are energy with a consciousness.

we don’t need to be touching or even in close proximity to any physical elements in the quantum field to affect or be affected by them.

the “you” that exists in a probable future is already connected to the “you” in this now.

when you hold clear focused thoughts about your purpose, accompanied by your passionate emotional engagement, you broadcast a stronger electromagnetic signal that pulls you toward a potential reality that matches what you want.

hold a clear intention of what you want, but leave the “how” details to the unpredictable and quantum field. let it orchestrate an event in your life in a way that is just right for you.

when you do create purposefully, request a sign from the quantum consciousness that you have made contact with it. dare to ask for synchronicities related to your specific desired outcomes. when you do, you are being bold enough to want to know that this consciousness is real and that it is aware of your efforts.

since the quantum field is nothing but immaterial probability, it is outside of space and time. as soon as we observe one of those infinite probabilities and give it material reality, it acquires those two characteristics.

chapters cont. below

ch 2: overcoming your environment

the subjective mind has an effect on the objective world.

an observer can affect the subatomic world and influence a specific event.

if you can influence your brain to change before you experience a desired future event, you will create the appropriate neural circuits that will enable you to behave in alignment with your intention before it becomes a reality in your life. through your own repeated mental rehearsal of a better way to think, act, or be, you will “install” the neural hardware needed to physiologically prepare you for the new event.

ch 3: overcoming your body

every potential already exists

when you have thoughtfully rehearsed a future reality until your brain has physically changed to look like it had the experience, you have emotionally embraced a new intention so many times that your body is altered to reflect that it has has the experience, hang on… because this is the moment the event finds you.

ch 4: overcoming time

in the present, all potentials exist simultaneously in the field. when we stay present, when we are “in the moment,” we can move beyond space and time, and we can make any one of those potentials a reality. when we are mired in the past, however, none of those new potentials exist.

if we focus on an intended future event and then plan how we will prepare or behave, there will be a moment when we are so clear and focused on that possible future that the thoughts we are thinking will begin to become the experience itself.

you have all the neurological machinery to transcend time.

ch 5: survival vs. creation

as our emotions become more elevated, we naturally ascend to a higher level of consciousness, closer to source… and feel more connected to universal intelligence.

when you’re living in the elevated emotion of creation, you feel so lifted that you would never try to analyze how or when a chosen destiny will arrive. you trust that it will happen because you have already experienced it.

do you it has already occurred in no space, no time, no place, from which all things material spring forth. you are in a state of knowingness; you can relax into the present and no longer live in survival.

to anticipate or analyze when, where, or how the event will occur will only cause you to return to your old identity.

ch 6: three brains: thinking to doing to being

it’s often useful to compare one’s brain to a computer, and it’s true that yours already has the hardware you’ll need to change your “self” and your life.

because you are thinking and feeling differently, you are changing reality.

you can’t think one way and feel another and expect anything in your life to change.

change your state of being… and change your reality.

choose a potential reality that you want, live it in your thoughts and feelings.

give thanks ahead of the actual event.

when your body experiences that the event is occurring in that moment and feels real to you, based solely on what you’re focused on mentally and feeling emotionally, then you are experiencing the future now.

ch 7: the gap

imagine how much good you could do by converting any destructive energy to productive energy. contemplate what you could accomplish if you weren’t focused on survival (a selfish emotion), but instead worked to create out of positive intentions (a selfless emotion).

ask yourself: what energy from past experiences (in the form of limited emotions) am i holding on to that reinforces my past identity and emotionally attaches me to my current circumstances? could i use this same energy and transform it into an elevated state from which to create a new and different outcome?

and do you know the funny thing about not wanting of lacking for anything? that’s when you can really begin to manifest things naturally.

ch 8: meditation, demystifying the mystical, and waves of your future

decide to stop being the old you

once that emotion is created you begin to feel like your new ideal, and that new feeling will start to become familiar. remember that when your body begins to respond as if the experience is already present reality, you will signal your genes in new ways… and your body will commence to change now, ahead of the physical event in your life.

[100-yardstare]

I was watching that new King Candy video on YouTube by Randomalistic and it got me thinking a lot about Wreck-It Ralph again, specifically about some background lore of the universe and the entire concept of the code and what it means to be alive in the arcade.

In this scene specifically, we are literally shown that code equals what is going on in the game. In the entire movie, "the code" is referenced like a god. You follow the code, you will be okay. If not, well... that could mean the end to either yourself or your world.

It's interesting to note that by dying outside your game you don't regenerate, yet manipulating the code itself like King Candy did didn't "delete" Vanellope. She was just made a glitch, which seems like a reasonable consequence of trying to delete her code. Perhaps it could explain why she couldn't leave the game Sugar Rush itself because her code was unstable, so the world's natural instruction to preserve her and itself would be to not allow her to leave.

But going beyond rules of the world of Wreck-It Ralph for a second, this is a cool reference to basic programing, which is essentially designing data into a sequence that a computer can interpret and execute. While the characters in Wreck-It Ralph are very much programs, they are also meant to be alive, and so, as this smart guy named Podolsky once said, "[there is a] counterpart for every element of the physical world." I don't remember where I read this part, but there were scientists talking about subatomic theory and how everything existing or anything that has existed is in some sort of quantum blueprint, parallel and expressing you, me, and that dog pissing on your tree outside into existence.

I AM GETTING TO MY POINT NOW

So my theory is that while a character may die and be unable to regenerate if something happens to them while they are outside their game, this doesn't necessarily mean that their code still doesn't exist.

Vanellope's code was attempted to be destroyed by King Candy, but that plot was a failure. He couldn't even modify existing code, like possibly changing the color of the salmon room or redesign Vanellope's kart because that's just what the code dictates. It's there and its permanent.

King Candy being an invader to Sugar Rush makes him not part of the game, and thus even though he was able to create an insert Sugar Rush character for himself to inhabit or essentially a "skin" to wear if you wanna be creepy about it, at the end of the movie he is gone. Dead as a door nail. He has no original code to refer back to because Turbo Time was unplugged, so he doesn't even have a source code that even remembers him as an individual. It's like a second death.

[spyglassrealms]

Pocket Guide to Intercosmic Travel

So, you've just become aware of the multiverse! Eternity, reality, omnicosm– no matter what you call the largest unit of existence that supersedes mortal notions of time and space, you're going to need to reframe your perspective on it. Here's a handy guide to get you started!

Multiversal Structure

The multiverse is composed of two aspects: universes (aka cosmoses or yggdrasili) and nullspace (aka aether or ginnungagap).

Universes

A natural-born universe, also called a “cosmos” or “yggdrasil,” originates as a single infinite point containing all of the spacetime and mass-energy of its existence in compressed form. This is called a “seed singularity” or just a “seedling”: a singularity of infinite potential. This seedling sprouts infinitely-branching possible spacetimes after initial expansion; any possible split fork moment in probability down to the quantum level creates a new timeline (or “branch”) extending off of the previous one.

Once a universe has grown out its branches all the way to the very end, after entropy has rendered every single worldline into a uniform smear of cold, stable, subatomic matter, gravitational force is absolutely uniform across the entirety of spacetime. This causes the ends of the branches to collapse into new seed singularities and pinch off, drifting free through nullspace until accumulated exposure to the primordial background energy triggers germination through quantum flux. Because time and causality don't apply outside the spacetime of a universe, the reproductive cycles of universes form an infinite chain of reincarnation.

Pseudocosms

A pseudocosm or pseudoverse, colloquially called a “Haven,” is an artificial cosmos created by one or more godlike hyperichal beings. Usually created by heavily altering a harvested seedling, these constructs often defy standard universal structure, existing in stable localized monocausality with deliberately maintained (cyclical) entropy. They exist effectively as sandboxes for the transcendent hyperichals, allowing them to “play god.”

Nullspace

Nullspace, also called the “aether” or “ginnungagap,” is the “space” in which universes exist, though it is impossible to actually conceptualize as a “space” because it doesn't technically exist. Nullspace is both infinite and imaginary, meaning that there is no relative position in it: every cosmos exists both adjacent to and far apart from each other. Nullspace is uniformly suffused with a unique form of energy, called primordial or aethereal energy, which has no carrier particle and contains infinite potential. This infinite raw energy is thought to be the driving force of the quantum vacuum fluctuations in each causal universe, which also serves to trigger singularity expansion in newborn universes.

Intercosmic Travel

When an object native to a cosmos exits its branch without a protective pocket of spacetime, its waveform collapses. An object removed from its original spacetime becomes detached from its native past, future, and alternate instances (its “worldline”), inhabiting a new causal lineage tethered to itself alone. When sapient beings accomplish this (except in the case of hyperichal transcendence), their new causal lineage is often called a “personal timeline” or, more succinctly, “lifeline.” Material beings who are capable of intercosmic travel are called, among other things: “Travellers,” “aethernauts,” or “planeswalkers.” Non-material, transcendent beings who have converted themselves to a causality-free post-cosmic format and, effectively, achieved “godhood” are called hyperichals, or simply “Drifters.”

Hyperichals

Hyperichals are sapient beings who have converted themselves into stable, complex superstring resonance patterns which exist outside the spatiotemporal limits of their cosmos of origin. They have attained final and complete knowledge of physics, and have total mastery over the workings of reality through post-singularity thaumatech. This allows them to not only travel freely across the multiverse, but control the structure of reality itself. It is the most literal form of godhood there is; in fact, most universes with known gods are actually the subjects of hyperichal influence.

Cosmography

The best system yet conceived for cartographing specific instants in a given universe is that of the Cosmos Index in the Gardener's Eternal Archive; available in physical, metaphysical, digital, gravirtual, hyperwave, psychonic, superstring compact resonance, and other formats for convenience. Its method is quite similar to that of the hypothetical Library of Babel: a primary starting point followed by a long string of increasingly specific divergence points in time and space. The end result is that the full address of any point in the multiverse is a large paragraph of absolutely eye-watering numerical gibberish, punctuated by the occasional semicolon. Fortunately, the index includes a spot for a cosmic prime-branch's colloquial names as well, making things easier for all Travellers. This is also useful for including pseudocosms, such as the notorious realm of “Crundle.”

A parallel to this project is the Traveller Index, which functions essentially as a “multiverse phonebook” - it is a compendium of all known beings who are capable of intercosmic travel. Each entry consists of a being’s preferred identity, cosmos and specific instant of origin, and a superstring code –much like a hyperichal consciousness, a “superstring code” is a sub-quantum resonance pattern unique to each individual Traveller’s “lifeline.” There are technically infinite entries in the full Index, but its natural form exists in a superimposed state unbound by time or space. When it is localized for active reference, it can have anywhere from a dozen entries to trillions of entries.

[eelhound]

"Physicists are more playful and less hidebound creatures than, say, biologists — partly, no doubt, because they rarely have to contend with religious fundamentalists challenging the laws of physics. They are the poets of the scientific world. If one is already willing to embrace thirteen-dimensional objects or an endless number of alternative universes, or to casually suggest that 95 percent of the universe is made up of dark matter and energy about whose properties we know nothing, it’s perhaps not too much of a leap to also contemplate the possibility that subatomic particles have 'free will' or even experiences. And indeed, the existence of freedom on the subatomic level is currently a heated question of debate. Is it meaningful to say an electron 'chooses' to jump the way it does? Obviously, there’s no way to prove it. The only evidence we could have (that we can’t predict what it’s going to do), we do have. But it’s hardly decisive. Still, if one wants a consistently materialist explanation of the world — that is, if one does not wish to treat the mind as some supernatural entity imposed on the material world, but rather as simply a more complex organization of processes that are already going on, at every level of material reality — then it makes sense that something at least a little like intentionality, something at least a little like experience, something at least a little like freedom, would have to exist on every level of physical reality as well.

Why do most of us, then, immediately recoil at such conclusions? Why do they seem crazy and unscientific? Or more to the point, why are we perfectly willing to ascribe agency to a strand of DNA (however 'metaphorically'), but consider it absurd to do the same with an electron, a snowflake, or a coherent electromagnetic field? The answer, it seems, is because it’s pretty much impossible to ascribe self-interest to a snowflake. If we have convinced ourselves that rational explanation of action can consist only of treating action as if there were some sort of self-serving calculation behind it, then by that definition, on all these levels, rational explanations can’t be found. Unlike a DNA molecule, which we can at least pretend is pursuing some gangster-like project of ruthless self-aggrandizement, an electron simply does not have a material interest to pursue, not even survival. It is in no sense competing with other electrons. If an electron is acting freely — if it, as Richard Feynman is supposed to have said, 'does anything it likes' — it can only be acting freely as an end in itself. Which would mean that at the very foundations of physical reality, we encounter freedom for its own sake — which also means we encounter the most rudimentary form of play.

Let us imagine a principle. Call it a principle of freedom — or, since Latinate constructions tend to carry more weight in such matters, call it a principle of ludic freedom. Let us imagine it to hold that the free exercise of an entity’s most complex powers or capacities will, under certain circumstances at least, tend to become an end in itself. It would obviously not be the only principle active in nature. Others pull other ways. But if nothing else, it would help explain what we actually observe, such as why, despite the second law of thermodynamics, the universe seems to be getting more, rather than less, complex. Evolutionary psychologists claim they can explain — as the title of one recent book has it — 'why sex is fun.' What they can’t explain is why fun is fun. This could.

I don’t deny that what I’ve presented so far is a savage simplification of very complicated issues. I’m not even saying that the position I’m suggesting here — that there is a play principle at the basis of all physical reality — is necessarily true. I would just insist that such a perspective is at least as plausible as the weirdly inconsistent speculations that currently pass for orthodoxy, in which a mindless, robotic universe suddenly produces poets and philosophers out of nowhere. Nor, I think, does seeing play as a principle of nature necessarily mean adopting any sort of milky utopian view. The play principle can help explain why sex is fun, but it can also explain why cruelty is fun. (As anyone who has watched a cat play with a mouse can attest, a lot of animal play is not particularly nice.) But it gives us ground to unthink the world around us."

- David Graeber, from "What’s the Point If We Can’t Have Fun?" The Baffler, January 2014.

[sciencestyled]

An Outlaw's Accidental Quantum Quest: The Tale of How Robin Hood Became a Physicist

In the dappled shadows of Sherwood, where the only things stolen are hearts and the only things shot are glances (well, and arrows, naturally), I found myself, Robin Hood, on a most peculiar venture. It all started one crisp morning as I attempted to swipe a particularly shiny something from the pocket of a slumbering nobleman. Lo and behold, instead of the usual gold or gem, I filched a book, "Quantum Field Theory for the Perplexed." Intrigued by this theft turned scholarly pursuit, I decided to give it a read.

At first, I thought the quarks mentioned were a new type of food, possibly a distant cousin of duck. But as I flipped through the pages, seated on a limb of my favorite oak, I realized this was no cookbook. No, it was something far more riveting. The idea that tiny, invisible particles danced about, unseen and mysterious, governed by laws that made less sense than the Sheriff’s taxes—it captivated me.

In a mix-up that could only be deemed fate, that very afternoon, a travelling physicist, camouflaged more poorly than a noble in Nottingham, wandered into our camp. He was on his way to a conference, he explained, where the secrets of the universe were to be discussed in hushed, reverent tones. Intrigued, I invited him to share our fire and perhaps simplify some of the baffling concepts from my newly acquired treasure.

As the evening wore on and the physicist elaborated on Feynman's diagrams, something about the unpredictable nature of particles reminded me of our own unpredictable raids. Maybe, I mused aloud, Sherwood itself was a sort of quantum field, where every tree, every rustle of leaves held the potential for surprise and subatomic rebellion.

Laughing heartily at the thought, the physicist agreed, and declared it would be a grand experiment to consider me and my Merry Men as particles in a vast, wooded collider. “Why, you're like quarks yourselves!” he exclaimed, gesticulating wildly with a half-eaten leg of venison. “You pop in and out of existence, from the law's perspective, and you're governed by forces both seen and unseen!”

Inspired by this unexpected parallel, I proposed a wild scheme: Why not write a guide to quantum field theory, peppered with our woodland lore? We could explain complex scientific concepts through the antics of an outlaw! The physicist chuckled at my enthusiasm, possibly thinking it was the ale talking. But by morning, fueled by a rogue's passion for mischief and newfound scientific curiosity, we began drafting our manuscript.

"Quarks in Quivers: The Outlaw’s Guide to Quantum Field Theory" was born from this blend of high-spirited science and adventurous anecdote. We imagined particles as arrows in a quiver, quantum fields as the shadowy depths of Sherwood, and each scientific explanation intertwined with tales of our exploits.

Thus, with a quiver full of quarks and a heart full of humor, I, Robin Hood, became an unlikely physicist, proving that even an outlaw can explore the universe's mysteries, one quantum leap at a time. And as for that physicist? Well, he became an honorary Merry Man, his mind as sharp as our arrows, his laughter as loud as our feasts. Together, we discovered that sometimes, the greatest adventures come not from the gold we steal, but from the knowledge we share.

[sparklingself]

I am not saying you are wrong,

I am simply saying you are only right because you believe you right and everything you have learned and have gathered in the time you have known LOA and every rule that you believe to be true is simply ONLY true because YOU believe in it otherwise it wouldn’t be true when someone doesn’t believe in it.

Consciousness is not the only reality, everything is tangible and just as real and it is reality

I am not conscious or aware of things that are happening outside my room but they are happening, people are doing things, when I go outside I get aware of things just because I am not conscious of what’s happening doesn’t mean them when I close my door everything disappears.

It is incredibly ignorant and stupid to think that what I cannot understand, comprehend or perceive or be conscious of simply doesn’t exist.

It exists regardless of if you are consciousness of it or not.

Second point:

Okay look at this way, Schrödinger’s cat :

What you are saying is simultaneously true and false depending of someone believing in it

just like a hypothetical cat may be considered simultaneously both alive and dead as a result of its fate being linked to a random subatomic event that may or may not occur

Instead of the fate it’s belief and instead of the cat it’s beliefs.

What you believe in is true for you

What someone else’s believes is true for them.

I hope I was clear. Have a good day.

"It is incredibly ignorant and stupid to think that what I cannot understand, comprehend or perceive or be conscious of simply doesn’t exist." why is it "incredibly ignorant and stupid"? what's your reasoning for that?

"if a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" is a widely discussed philosophical question. it's not "common sense" that it objectively makes a sound. it's quite an adequate question, in my opinion, as it has been discussed for centuries. it's not "ignorant" or "stupid".

you take the view that everything definitely exists regardless of you, but what reasoning do you have for that other than your own intuition?

i'll try to explain it as best as i can what i mean as consciousness being the only reality: you can perceive and have thoughts and feelings and what not all due to having a consciousness. you experience your whole life through your consciousness. you cannot possibly access anyone else's consciousness, you can only perceive through you. i define reality here as everything you can perceive, experience, think of and feel not as something objective (bc let's be real you can't access actual objectivity if you have a consciousness because your perception is uniquely yours and ultimately subjective). this is why reality is you. so, your reality can only be your consciousness. you are everything and things only exist because you make them exist in your reality. you perceive 2+2 to be 4. that's why it is so. in your world you define what is what through your own perception. @aphroditeapprenticee 's rb to this post gives a great explanation.

schrödinger's cat example still opens the discussion of perception and therefore consciousness and still proves consciousness to be the only reality.

[donniesexceptionalmind]

Thanks for the sympathy Don, I relate to not being a good social person.

I haven't interacted with Mikey and Raph yet, but I am helping out with a wholesome prank for Raph.

I would honestly love to reveal my identity, and I will- When I'm ready. For now, I remain anonymous...

But I would like to ask something...

CAN YOU RANT TO ME ABOUT TECHNOLOGY???

I just love machines and tech and everything you specialize in- I want to hear stuff about it from you directly.

YOU REQUEST ME TO RANT ABOUT MY TECH STUFF ?

FOR REAL?

Don't worry, I GOT YOU COVERED.

❗️You have been warned.❗️

You know my beloved

S.H E.L.L.D.O.N., don't you?

I sensed it was time for an update, so I began to invest my time in quantum computing - a very interesting field!

Quantum computing is an area of computer science that uses the principles of quantum theory - who would have guessed that? (Sarcasm).

FYI: Quantum theory explains the behavior of energy & material on the atomic & subatomic levels.

Quantum computing uses subatomic particles (electrons or photons). Quantum bits (qubits) allow these particles to exist in more than one state (i.e., 1 & 0) at the same time

FYI: Superposition & quantum entanglement are key-words here

Theoretically, these linked qubits could exploit the interference between their wave-like quantum states to perform calculations that might otherwise take millions of years, which could be such a great help in our lives!

Qubits carry information in a quantum state that engages 0 & 1 in a multidimensional way. MORE POSSIBILITIES TO EXPLORE IN VERY LITTLE TIME (yet this leads to a higher error rate).

Classical computers today employ a stream of electrical impulses (1 & 0) in a binary manner to encode information in bits. This restricts their processing ability - it's snail-like compared to quantum computing (boooring).

Quantum computing has the capability to sift through huge numbers of possibilities & extract potential solutions to complex problems & challenges!

It could be SO BENEFICIAL for SHELLDON to have a quantum computer, since his AI is currently running on that slow bit-system *sighs*.

My beloved tech birdie deserves that kind of treat.

Yet, quantum computers are still not a very every-day-life-kind. They need really specific environmental structures to function (e.g. very cold, no vibrations) AND therefore struggle to store and save data.

And finding a solution for this - that's a huge task, fellow tech enthusiast.

~

Thanks for letting me rant a bit, it brightened my low mood!

(And NO Mikey, I don't need another therapy session. Feelings are weird, ksksksks.)

[lunarcovehq]

Dhruv Mehta is a werewolf that currently resides in Shadow Lake and has been a Lunar Cove resident for 1.5 months, playing Frankenstein… and his monster?

ITS THE END OF THE WORLD

GENDER/PRONOUNS: CIS Male, He/Him

DATE OF BIRTH: May 28, 1989

OCCUPATION: Scientist at K Labs

FACECLAIM: Dev Patel

AS WE KNOW IT, AND I FEEL FINE

SPECIES: Werewolf

WOLF CLASSIFICATION: Omega

PACK AFFILIATION: Member

WELCOME TO LUNAR COVE, DHRUV MEHTA

Trigger Warning: Death

If you could ask God a question, what would it be?

Such a thing should not have made the boy think, facts and figures was what he knew to be true not prayers and wishes, yet hands clasped and staring at the image adorned with flowers, there were many things he wanted to ask for, wish for, though what could be granted? It was one thing to be born human and another thing entirely to feel human. 

Life had been strange in a strange sort of way, powerless yet surrounded by power, strange in a curious way, eager to know, eager to want, but that wish could not be granted no matter the prayer. A child born from a union of a human and witch had a chance of having powers, but when Dhruv did not grow into any he swore there was a sigh of relief from his mother, it was easier she said, safer, the world is dangerous for people of that kind. Questions on why ended with explanations that could not satiate the boy’s inquisitive mind, why nots were met with shrugs, and the ones that were answered did not contain the level of detail Dhruv required and thus began the journey of discovery — why were things the way they were?  

You never quite forget your first punnett square. The moment Dhruv came to what that was and how genetics influenced the way people received certain traits he ran to his parents, eyes wide thinking he had cracked the code – in a way he had, but in many other ways he had not. Not born within the miraged safety of Lunar Cove, he automatically became an outsider but also a secret keeper of sorts, an entirely different world confined and existed outside of the London he grew up in to which he was whisked away at a young age, yet it could not have been all that different could it? His cousin spoke of the same things, of friends and school, of hobbies and interests, he could relate yet those friends were magical while his weren’t, he was not being taught power control, there was no way he could understand when Mason talked about such things being hard work chances for him ever getting to experience that only squashed further and further as he aged.

Sensing Dhruv’s forlorn state after those phone calls, his father imparted a simple statement that embedded itself into his heart and soul; ‘somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known’ and it was go from there. Everything held a new-found beauty, every theorem, every subatomic particle, all the principles he studied contained a rightness and the knowledge only added to the excitement and the awe. Bright, gifted kid turned into a confident, genius man with achievements and degrees under his belt before his peers. He did not need to have eidetic memory like his father to state complex physics formulas at the drop of a hat, they took practice, yes, but paved way for a slight arrogance that developed over time with every correct answer. He was self-assured, one could try to disprove his statements but Dhruv’s mind grew to be like a spreadsheet, data accessible almost instantaneously, and he only strengthened that. Always pushing on the why, on that thirst to discover something, if not within himself then at least with the world he knew and grew up in. He may not understand magic but Science and Mathematics held answers and provided rational explanations for things,the why and how, they were constant and consistent and Dhruv knew, one day, he’d have all the answers.

Time moved and so did he. Family, friends, education, Dhruv fell into a steady flow but of course, as clever as he was known to be, he couldn’t possibly predict all things. A held gaze across the bar sparked a new kind of curiosity, a drink and a conversation later he realised he did not have all the answers yet, that there could be joy in figuring out something together. Chemistry was one of his favourite branches of science, the study of matter, but what truly mattered? What possibly existed beyond the composition and structure of elements? This. Chemistry was in the ebb and flow of easy conversation, in the sparkles of laughter mixed with soft smiles, Dhruv did not need to be a genius to figure this was something good. Numbers were exchanged and dates were set, and it continued to be good. Perhaps he had made a mistake to pray this would last, to wish for more sunsets and something more because he couldn’t have expected this. A seemingly ordinary day should not have been a cause for concern, but the note held little answers, the unanswered texts and phone calls that only grew in number were effort exerted in a futile way. He did not know what drove them away but it festered as something bitter within him. But time moved and so did he.

Lunar Cove had not been on the radar, in fact, he desire to step foot in that town had waned to a negligible thing, but his parents who had moved to the town a long while ago, wished for their son to join them, figuring with all the chances the outside world had to offer were taken and experienced it was time to come home. True home. Dhruv could’ve argued, and he had a little, there was so much more he could not be confined in that magical barrier but soon grew weary listening to their lectures and with a recent heartbreak that had yet to heal, he agreed.

Dhruv could study life down to the exact atom, life, however, as he had and would continue to soon discover could not be confined to the nucleus of a man and his strive for that something else, life weaved and danced to its own beat that could not be quantified. Song Seo-Joon’s arrival into his life was met with some hesitancy, and that reflected in Seo-Joon too, but the pair struck a chord despite nothing pointing to a friendship working out, it did. They talked about things, bonded on the feeling of not having magic, and Dhruv obviously subjected his friend to his rambles about theories and experiments. It was one such night, where he finished up on work, while Seo-Joon waited, that things in his life shifted again. Except the moments that define lives aren't always obvious, they don’t always scream wolf in the piercing of a needle into skin. But that’s what happened. A careless slip and a careful catch, their lives forever changed yet it was Dhruv’s heart that beat in quiet fear over their discovery, one that would have no choice but to mask as excitement. Everything forward and backwards read entirely new. Genetic structure altered to fit in this new form. Starting into a mirror, the silhouette reflected a similar, recognisable curious glance that a human once wore, but who was he now? A man, but not human, not entirely. What was he? A wolf? Could he claim to be one? The prodding uncovered one only thing: he was something strange and unnatural — he was an experiment.

Gravitational acceleration is a known constant, the mass of the action could be gauged, could he then use it to calculate the weight of a lost future?

They bent the truth but they had not failed, not entirely, a loss led to a breakthrough and cover-ups that followed made way for accolades and awards, still, an ache burned deep, this could've been something to celebrate, to smile and accept the congratulations and though those were done, it felt different from his expectations. He had an answer to something, yet it did not feel correct, he did not feel correct. Utterly lost even though there was more that could be studied, more that could be attained, Dhruv retreated into himself in the following weeks, mood worsening to be told by the Song family that Seo-Joon seemed to have skipped town. That wasn't like him, but not finding the man anywhere and texts being ignored there wasn’t much he could do. Life was just funny that way.

He stayed in Lunar Cove for a while with K labs taking research projects that he could, and joined the pack too, to have some sort of aid for this new form of his, but adjusting was tough, and tougher still was dealing with the Alpha. Nico, while goodhearted, did not, in his opinion, know what he was doing. There was care and acceptance but in the constant onslaught of unimaginable horrors, Nico’s attitude rubbed him wrong. It was one thing to want to protect everyone, a good trait one could possess, yet to only care for a select when the pack was supposedly family? Dhruv couldn’t see any bit of logic to that. A good man did not make a good leader. This led to many quiet disagreements, voicing some when things could not be held in for too long, which when expressed were dished with heavy scrutiny, but he withdrew before things got truly heated. He wanted so desperately to put thoughts into action, to change things despite knowing it’d be foolish, but what could he do? Who would listen? Certainly not Nico, he only cared for his own and Dhruv was not one of them. With rank being the lowest in the hierarchy, he was too weak in more than one way, heck some even outright said he was hardly a wolf to begin with. An error. Didn't matter that he shifted alongside them, pack bond linking them all, Dhruv was not born nor bit, had not taken life to set about this new being he was. But in a way, hadn’t he? Given up his own life for this, that ought to count. It should have counted. 

With no close friends to share such thoughts with and Seo-Joon still supposedly out of town, the bitterness that brew tipped the scales and in a move so utterly foolish but also somewhat thought through, he left Lunar Cove. Taking some time to explore the country before flying back to London to piece back his broken life. However, that feeling of brokenness and sense of feeling lost persisted. The news of Mason's death had him caught entirely by surprise and shocked him to the core. His cousin, happy and bright, should’ve had a long life ahead, not have it cut so short in such a way. The rush back to Lunar Cove was needed this time, for the funeral and also to somehow make sense of the untimely demise. Answers were pieced together in a blurred states of sorrow, confusion, anger and nostalgia. He had not planned to stick around long, but the sight of familiar faces, of old feelings resurfacing, Dhruv decided that perhaps staying would be more beneficial for now.

[thebardostate]

A Prophetic Dream

For many years, it has been my belief that our Universe is deterministic. Once its initial conditions were decided, I believed that no further choice was possible - the Universe would unfold according to the laws of its own operation in the one and only way it could unfold. Free will existed only at the global level, in the choice of its initial conditions. As individuals, we act as if we have free will because we only possess limited information about our local conditions; the underlying deterministic nature of the Universe is concealed by our imperfect limited knowledge. If we were omniscient, we would see that all actions in the Universe proceed inevitably from its initial conditions and its laws in an incomprehensibly vast predetermined pattern, right down to the smallest subatomic particle.

In quantum physics, this position is known as Superdeterminism. It is an interpretation of quantum physics that has existed alongside the Copenhagen Interpretation (e.g., "Schrödinger's cat) for the last century. Quantum physicists have known of the Superdeterminism interpretation all along, but they ignore it because in a deterministic Universe they - and all other scientists - would be out of a job (this is the "trivial solution" that falls out of Bell's Theorem.)

Anyway, that is what I believed until I had a highly significant dream tonight.

I have been working my way through the collected works of C.G. Jung, which I'm finding fascinating reading. Currently I'm reading his lectures on Synchronicity, the idea that meaningful coincidences can't simply be written off as statistical chance because they involve psychological meaning, which is outside the scope of statistics; statistics can only evaluate these uncanny phenomena by discounting their psychological aspects. This alters these phenomena and renders them (literally) meaning-less. So the uncanny cannot be explained away through statistics because synchronistic events do not obey the usual laws of causality. Sentient actors are at work, manipulating probability in ways that science cannot distinguish from ordinary coincidences lacking the crucial psychological component. This is borne out by repeated scientific studies showing that human actors can (slightly) alter random number generation in computers.

In my dream, I was prophesying the future. I had written my prophesies on two sets of clay tablets. I locked my predictions in an old suitcase and buried it in the earth until their time drew nigh. No sooner had I finished burying them than I was pursued by faceless shapes who wanted to know the future. I fled them and after some time managed to lose my pursuers. I doubled back to where I had buried the suitcase and dug up my prophesies.

I was astonished to discover that, while the first tablet was accurate in every detail, the second one was wrong. My actions to evade the shapes had altered the future such that the second half of the prophecies was no longer accurate. Then I awoke.

In the waking world, I was struck by the sense that this was no ordinary dream, and that I must write it down at once. As I did, the meaning of the dream came to me in a sudden gestalt.

The Universe does indeed obey deterministic laws, as Gottfried Leibniz believed with his notion of a Clockwork Universe. But it doesn't stop there. The Universe and its laws only apply to those realms where Time exists, for Time is an essential element in any deterministic system. The physical Universe is the realm that our bodies and brains inhabit, and they are subject to its laws. But our minds are eternal; they originate in realms that stand outside of Time, and they obey their own laws. Our minds interact with the Universe through the host bodies that we inhabit during one lifetime after another. While our minds inhabit our bodies they can act in the world, and as they do we alter the conditions of determinism. In other words: our physical bodies and brains lack free will, but our minds possess it. As sentient entities that exist outside of Time and the laws of the physical Universe, our minds can alter and redirect our future. It is analogous to us moving the hands on a clock to change the time it predicts. The clock is a deterministic mechanism, but we can change the time it displays.

In other words, the Clockwork Universe isn't wrong, it's just incomplete. Left to its own devices, the laws of the Universe will tick away in a clockwork, deterministic fashion. But it seldom gets to do so, because sentient actors from Outside the Universe - our minds - can and do reshape the future through their actions in the world. We are in the Universe without being entirely of the Universe. Our minds stand outside of Time and can change deterministic outcomes as if we were adjusting the hands of a clock. Once adjusted, the clock will continue to tick off the seconds as it always has done, but with the hands now in a new position and the future altered.

My dream revealed to me that we are not helpless actors in a deterministic Universe. We have agency and can alter our future. Thus the tablets in my dream: their prophesies were correct only for a brief window, until my own actions altered the future and invalidated my prophesies. Had I not acted to flee my pursuers, my prophesies would have come to pass once their hour rolled around at last.

[disgruntledexplainer]

multiverse theory hurts my brain

multiverse theory gets kinda complex when you realize that it isn’t human decisions that are supposed to cause splits, but rather the movement of individual subatomic particles of both matter and energy all across the universe (93 billion square light-years in volume) throughout all time (13.8 billion years so far). or more precisely, the collapsing of the particle’s wave function every time they are interact with another object (which acts as an “observer”).

There is an estimated 10^78 atoms in the universe, each composed of who knows how many protons, neutrons, and electrons. Each time one of it’s component parts has it’s wave function collapsed into a particle in any location, theoretically it produces about as many universes as there are possible locations the particle could have moved.

each of these universes in turn produces a similar amount of universes every time a particle’s wave function collapses as well. not to mention every time a photon is produced by a star or is reflected or absorbed by anything produces as many new universes as there were locations it could have been emitted, reflected. every single collapsing wave function of every single electron, proton, neutron, or photon in the entire universe multiplied by the number of universes currently in existence is the number of new universes produced.

To call the resulting universes an exponential function would be a hilarious understatement.

and that’s not even counting dark matter or dark energy, both of which actually make up the bulk of observable mass and energy in the universe, a reality which I am ignoring because we don’t actually know what either is made of and thus if we are even dealing with particles with them or not. but presumably all of that mess also contributes to the multiplication of universes as well.

all of this multiplication would occur in the minimum amount of measurable time possible in our reality, which is about 5.4*10^-44 seconds. 5.4*10^-44 seconds of the 13.8 billion existing years so far.

assuming multiverse theory is correct, if you were to somehow travel to one of the practically infinite universe immediately adjacent to yours, you wouldn’t notice any difference at all, since the change that created that universe could have occurred millions of light-years away. and every movement of every particle in your body while in that alternate universe would contribute to the multiplication of that universe, while diminishing the multiplication of the universe you came from. but at the same time the moment you left your own timeline, an identical version of you from an adjacent timeline who had an identical idea to you would also enter your universe, bringing back to the standard multiplication.

If you were to travel “far enough” across these parallel universes, however, the universe would become incomprehensibly different, as particles begin collapsing in the least likely ways possible, seemingly breaking the laws of physics out of pure probability despite actually having the same laws.

the implications of this theory, and the consequences of successfully confirming it, are mind-boggling. frankly i prefer the standard model. hurts my brain less.

[scp-scp-096]

Can You Kill SCP-096?

SCP-096, also known as "The Shy Guy," is one of the most infamous and feared entities within the SCP Foundation's containment. Known for its extreme reaction to anyone who glimpses its face, even through indirect means like photographs or video footage, SCP-096 embarks on a relentless pursuit to annihilate the individual who saw it. The question of whether SCP-096 can be killed is a topic of great debate among researchers and fans alike. This article explores the possibilities and challenges involved in attempting to kill SCP-096.

The Nature of SCP-096

SCP-096 is classified as Euclid due to its unpredictable and dangerous behavior. Standing at approximately 2.38 meters tall, with long, disproportionate limbs, SCP-096's most terrifying feature is its face, which it desperately tries to hide. The moment someone sees its face, SCP-096 enters an agitated state and begins a relentless pursuit of the observer, no matter where they are. This pursuit ends only when SCP-096 kills the person who saw its face, after which it will return to a docile state.

Understanding SCP-096's nature is crucial when considering the possibility of killing it. The entity seems to possess a unique regenerative ability, making it nearly indestructible. SCP-096's physical form is resilient, able to withstand extreme conditions that would normally be fatal to other living beings.

Attempted Methods to Kill SCP-096

Throughout the Foundation's history, various methods have been attempted to kill SCP-096, ranging from conventional weaponry to more extreme measures. The following are some of the methods that have been tried:

Conventional Weaponry

Efforts to kill SCP-096 using conventional weaponry, such as firearms and explosives, have proven ineffective. SCP-096 has been shot, blown up, and even subjected to heavy artillery, yet it emerges unscathed every time. Its body appears to be highly resistant to physical damage, regenerating from injuries at an alarming rate.

Chemical and Biological Attacks

Chemical and biological attacks have also been considered as potential ways to kill SCP-096. However, these methods have failed to produce any significant results. SCP-096's physiology is either immune to or capable of neutralizing such attacks, rendering them ineffective.

Containment Breach Protocols

The Foundation has developed several containment breach protocols specifically designed to deal with SCP-096. These protocols aim to prevent the entity from causing harm rather than attempting to kill it. The use of these protocols highlights the difficulty in neutralizing SCP-096 and suggests that killing it may not be possible through conventional means.

Theoretical Methods of Killing SCP-096

Given the failure of previous attempts, researchers have proposed several theoretical methods that could potentially kill SCP-096. While these methods remain untested, they offer a glimpse into the extreme measures that might be necessary.

Reality-Altering Anomalies

One theory suggests that the use of reality-altering anomalies, such as SCP-343 (often referred to as "God") or SCP-239 ("The Witch Child"), could be used to kill SCP-096. These anomalies possess the ability to manipulate reality itself, potentially overriding SCP-096's regenerative capabilities. However, the ethical and practical implications of using such powerful anomalies are significant, and the risks involved are considerable.

Dimensional Banishment

Another theoretical method involves banishing SCP-096 to another dimension or reality where it cannot return. The idea is that if SCP-096 cannot exist in our reality, it can no longer pose a threat. However, this approach does not technically kill SCP-096; it merely removes it from our plane of existence.

Total Annihilation

The most extreme theory involves the complete annihilation of SCP-096 at a subatomic level, perhaps through the use of a nuclear or antimatter explosion. This method would require immense power and precision to ensure that every part of SCP-096 is destroyed simultaneously. However, the feasibility of this approach is questionable, and the potential consequences could be catastrophic.

Conclusion: Can SCP-096 Be Killed?

The question of whether SCP-096 can be killed remains unanswered. While various methods have been attempted and others theorized, none have definitively proven successful. SCP-096's resilience, regenerative abilities, and unique nature make it one of the most difficult entities to neutralize. As of now, the Foundation continues to focus on containment and prevention rather than attempting to kill SCP-096. The mystery of its invincibility only adds to the terrifying legend of the "Shy Guy."

Refer:

Can You Kill SCP-096? How To Kill SCP-096?

[b-ja]

Schrödinger’s Suburbia. A short story.

In a town where every house was a perfect copy of the next, Tim Jenkins prepared to live yet another day identical to the last.

The smooth, unblemished white walls of his home reflected the existential void that defined his life. Every morning, he woke up in the same queen-sized bed with sheets he didn’t remember buying, in a house he didn’t recall choosing, next to a wife who... well, might or might not exist. Just like Schrödinger’s cat, Lisa Jenkins was simultaneously present and absent in a marriage teetering between stability and total collapse.

Quantum physics would have a lot to say about Tim. According to theory, there was a probability, however infinitesimal, that a single subatomic particle could appear out of nowhere and blow up the entire neighborhood. Or it could just decide not to exist. Much like Tim’s will to live. But of course, no one really thought about that because people who lived in neighborhoods like this never really thought. If the observer alters the observed, then Tim was living proof that there wasn’t much to observe in the first place.

As the coffee slowly dripped into his cup—the one with "World’s Best Dad" written on it that he didn’t remember ever buying—Tim wondered if the universe was just screwing with him. The idea that particles could exist in superimposed states, that time was a jagged line rather than a straight one, and that his choices didn’t mean a damn thing in the grand scheme of things didn’t comfort him at all. In fact, it pissed him off. If the universe wanted him to believe he had any control over his life, it was doing a piss-poor job.

The philosopher in Tim’s mind—who, to be honest, was more of a narcissist than a deep thinker—began to ponder free will. If the universe was truly indeterminate, if every choice he made was just an illusion, then why the hell did he bother making those choices? You could say Tim was living in a quantum loop where every day was a repeat of the last, and every decision he made was just a fraction of a fraction of a probability.

Why not just screw it all? Why not flip a coin, let probability decide? But as always, Tim ended up choosing the path of least resistance. It was the conformist's paradox: aware of the trap he was caught in, yet too scared to shake it off. Schrödinger’s thought experiments and Zeno’s paradoxes were his daily bread, but in the end, they only served to reinforce his inertia. Like an electron unable to decide which orbit to choose, Tim oscillated between "doing something" and "letting things stay the same."

And so, with his perfectly orchestrated daily routine, Tim left the house, got into his black sedan (the same black sedan that every other Tim Jenkins in every other parallel universe was driving), and headed to work. His mind wandered over concepts of multiverses, of lives not lived, of possibilities never explored. But of course, he did nothing about it. After all, who observes a particle without changing themselves too? Tim Jenkins was evidently not that kind of particle.

And the neighborhood continued to exist, unless someone somewhere decided to look at it too closely. But who would ever bother to observe something so irrelevant so closely? And so, Tim Jenkins’s life, just like that subatomic particle, remained in a state of superposition—between existing and not existing, between making a choice and just letting life happen.

Until someone finally opened that damned box.

But who exactly would have the guts to do it? Certainly not Tim Jenkins, who lived trapped in his routine like a hamster on a wheel. The box stayed shut, the cat potentially dead, potentially alive, and Tim, well, potentially free, potentially a slave.

As he drove to work, a bizarre thought crossed his mind like a glitch in the matrix of his monotony. What if all this was an experiment, a twisted test orchestrated by some higher entity? Maybe God—or worse, a quantum physicist—having fun seeing how long Tim could endure the nothingness before imploding. If it really was an experiment, Tim thought, then there had to be an observer somewhere, someone recording his every move, every non-choice, and silently laughing at his inability to break out of his own box.

“Fuck it all,” Tim thought, not even really believing it himself. It was a rebellious thought, a mental act of insubordination that he would never have the courage to put into practice. Because even in his fake disdain, Tim knew he wasn’t going to do anything different. He would park the car in the usual spot, walk to his cubicle, and spend eight hours typing meaningless data into a system no one would ever really check. Then he would drive back home, have dinner with Lisa in awkward silence, and fall asleep thinking about the thousand possibilities he would never have the courage to explore.

And yet that persistent thought, that nagging doubt that maybe, just maybe, there was something else outside this box, kept buzzing in his head. Maybe if he just stopped playing the conformist, stopped acting like an electron unable to decide which orbit to choose, he’d finally find the guts to open the box. But not today. Today he’d do exactly what he did every day: absolutely nothing.

The morning traffic was, as always, an orderly flow of identical cars, each driven by another version of Tim Jenkins. The other drivers were just shadows, reflections of his own banality, indistinct figures gliding through the city like neutrinos through matter. Invisible. Insignificant.

His thoughts returned to quantum physics. Particles that exist only when observed, that behave predictably—until they don’t. But Tim wasn’t a particle, and no one was observing him—at least not in any way that mattered. Maybe that was his real problem: there was no one watching. Nothing giving weight or meaning to his existence. In a world where every atom was monitored, where every possibility was calculated, Tim Jenkins was the exception. An unobserved man. A quantum error in an ordered universe.

What if he just stopped doing what everyone expected? What if he ditched everything, drove toward the horizon, and kept driving until the gas or the earth ran out? But he knew he wouldn’t. He’d go back home to Lisa, to their box. The box he’d keep shut because opening it meant facing the reality that maybe there had never been anything inside.

He arrived at the office, parked the car, and turned off the engine. He sat there for a moment, hands still on the wheel, eyes fixed straight ahead. “Not today,” he thought again, but this time there was a hint of defiance, a small glimmer of rebellion.

Maybe tomorrow he’d open that box.

Or maybe not.

Because really, who would notice?

Like an old rusty mechanism that suddenly started working again, creaking and groaning.

“Fuck it all,” he said out loud this time. The words echoed in the empty parking lot, a sound that felt more real than anything he’d ever said before. For the first time in years, he felt the truth of those words. No one was watching him, no one was controlling him, and maybe—just maybe—that meant he could do anything.

Tim turned and started walking—but not toward the office. He kept walking, past the parking lot, across the street, with no clear direction. The world around him seemed to blur, and for a moment, Tim felt like he was the only real thing in a universe of shadows. Traffic whizzed by him, but he didn’t even notice. The city that had held him captive for so long was dissolving, revealing a horizon he had never dared to imagine.

With each step, Tim felt lighter, as if he was shedding weight, but not just physical. It was as if he was unloading his baggage of expectations, fears, and compromises. The box that had trapped his existence was finally opening, and inside, there was neither a live cat nor a dead one, but a void that seemed infinitely full of possibilities.

He didn’t know where he was going, but for the first time, he didn’t care. The world stretched out before him, a blank slate on which he could finally write something of his own. Every step took him further from the old life, from false choices, from compromises. It was as if he was daring the universe itself to stop him, to prove that there really was a destiny, a path already laid out.

But the universe remained silent. No invisible hand pulled him back, no force stopped him. And as he walked further and further away, Tim realized that maybe the only person who ever had the power to observe him, to change him, was himself.

He walked until the sun began to set, painting the sky with colors he had never noticed before. In that moment, with the sun dipping below the horizon and the cool air filling his lungs, Tim Jenkins finally felt free. Free from everything he had been, free to be anyone he wanted.

And so, without a plan, without a map, Tim Jenkins left his old life behind and disappeared into the twilight—a particle finally in motion, determined to create his own destiny, to draw his own orbit. Maybe the universe would take note of him, maybe not. But Tim no longer needed to be observed to exist. Finally, he was no longer a suspended possibility—he was real.

And for the first time, the world seemed to make sense.

[shraddhamatre]

Dissecting the Intricacies: Investigating the Mechanisms Underpinning Common Wonders

Mechanics is the unseen conductor in the grand scheme of things, arranging the motions of planets and stars as well as the details of our daily existence. Everything is governed by mechanics, from the elegant dance of planets to the commonplace but necessary operations of machinery. In this investigation, we dissect the layers of intricacy to reveal the underlying ideas that power existence's machinery.

Fundamentally, mechanics is the area of physics that studies how physical bodies behave under various forces or displacements and how those behaviors affect their surroundings. It includes both quantum mechanics, which explores the extremely microscopic, where particles exhibit behaviors that defy traditional intuition, and classical mechanics, which deals with macroscopic objects traveling at speeds much slower than the speed of light.

Sir Isaac Newton's explanation of classical mechanics in the 17th century set the foundation for our knowledge of motion. The foundation of classical mechanics is Newton's three laws of motion, which offer a framework for explaining how things behave when subjected to forces. According to the first law, unless an outside force acts upon an object, it will continue to be at rest or move uniformly. This relationship is quantified by the second law, which states that an object's acceleration is inversely proportional to its mass and directly proportional to the net force acting upon it. The third law, which states that there is an equal and opposite reaction to every action, finally summarizes the idea of action and reaction.

These rules apply to a wide range of situations, including projectile trajectory and the migration of celestial bodies in vast stretches of space. Classical mechanics gives the mathematical foundation to comprehend and predict various events, such as the soft sway of a pendulum or the thundering roar of a rocket speeding towards the heavens. But when we continue to probe the structure of reality, classical mechanics starts to break down. The game's rules alter at the subatomic scale, giving rise to the mysterious field of quantum mechanics. Particles like electrons and photons behave in this way in a way that goes against conventional wisdom. Our comprehension of the essential essence of reality is put to the test by ideas such as quantum entanglement, wave-particle duality, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Many contemporary technologies, including nuclear reactors and semiconductor devices used in electronics, are based on the ideas of quantum mechanics. The foundation of modern physics and engineering is provided by its mathematical formalism, which makes it possible to build cutting-edge technologies that have a significant impact on our daily lives. Mechanics is not limited to physics; it permeates every facet of our everyday existence. Mechanical principles are the foundation upon which our contemporary society is formed, from the basic devices that make home chores easier to the intricate workings of vehicle engines and aerospace propulsion systems.

One of the six traditional simple machines is the common lever. The lever's capacity to increase force finds use in a wide range of equipment, including seesaws and crowbars. We can accomplish things with this little apparatus that would be impossible to do with just physical force if we grasp its dynamics. When it comes to the construction and management of land, marine, and airborne autos, mechanics is paramount. For these systems to operate effectively, dependably, and safely—whether they are jet turbines that power airplanes or combustion engines that power cars—a thorough understanding of mechanics is required.

In the field of biology as well, mechanics is essential. The human body, with its interconnected system of muscles, tendons, and bones, is a mechanical engineering marvel. The goal of the multidisciplinary study of biomechanics is to comprehend how living things interact with their surroundings and how biological processes are governed by mechanical principles. It does this by fusing the concepts of mechanics with biology, physiology, and anatomy.

In summary, mechanics is the invisible hand that directs the motion of the universe and the complex devices we use on a daily basis. Mechanics is the thread that weaves the fabric of existence together, from the celestial ballet of planets to the inner workings of the atom, from the basic machines that lighten our burdens to the wonders of modern technology. We have the power to change the world and push the bounds of what is feasible as we continue to solve its mysteries.

Start Your Preparation With: https://gameacademy.in/ / https://clppenny.page.link/cTBm

[nightinghoul]

Also, just real quick I want to say that I do NOT believe we live in a simulation- just that it's possible that the universe we exist in is indistinguishable from a simulation because on a subatomic level, particals become increasingly weird and wiggly and abstract.

Also, these things:

1. We contain coding, which is super rad.

2. Observational behavioral variances in subatomic particals where a subatomic partical always changes when observed: Now I've read this is because, by observing a subatomic partical, you force it to interact with a photon. Is this true? I dunno - Google it.

What I mean is, there's a causation for everything, but we don't know all the causations, or every affect they may have.

3. At least philosophically, a large part of reality is our (or someone's) ability to observe. And we have to observe with our goopy, fallible brains, which feels pretty silly.

A. Not entirely related, but in the same ballpark: I'm only agnostic because I refuse to define God. I believe in God, actually - I just think that collective belief is a reasonable definition of God. Because a very strong idea has a presence, and is a force, and is perhaps alive, in a sense, as a conglomerate of consciousness.

But I also think that an all powerful, all knowing spirit is an acceptable definition of God. I just can't distinguish between that and an alien intelligence, UNLESS God origionated on Earth.

Either way, I like to talk to it about stuff. And I KNOW I probably sound crazy, but spiritual beliefs are so personal and wacky, so who cares.

Anyway, I should probably be asleep. It's very late where I am.

[mentalisttraceur]

question: how is birth possible in a topological world, as in a world where everything can be stretched or contracted but not broken or cut apart?

hypothesis one: inside every person, exist infinite other 'people' (they might not be people yet, but they can be. no amount of energy can leave and no amount of energy can enter, but it can be recycled and its form might change) who are separate from the initial person and may be born under the right circumstances. everyone can give birth theoretically, whether they have the organs required or not, because there are infinite outcomes for each universe in the this world and thus there is a 100% probability that someone will give birth in one of those.

hypothesis two: everyone is the same person. when someone new is born, theyre also the person who gave birth to them, however now an invisible ''string'' ties the two of them together. they might not be consciously aware of it, but everything surrounding them (the trees, the humans, the animals, the stars, the atoms, their parents etc) is also a part of them and theyre also a part of it.

question: is our universe topological and if yes, which one of these hypotheses is true (one, both or neither)?

the questions may or may not be rhetorical.

TL;DR: Unknowable, and probably not worth getting super invested in until you can pin it down to a predictive difference or efficiency-of-prediction difference.

Sorry for the delay anon (I think this was asked sometime in May, maybe earlier).

1. Is our universe topological?

So, for nature-of-the-world questions I don't really consider "is [...]" to be particularly answerable. I prefer "is so far empirically indistinguishable from [...]" and "is most elegantly explained/modeled as [...]".

As far as I can tell, we live in a world whose observable physics, at least at the macroscopic level, are more elegantly/efficiently/straightforwardly explained by having separate and separable objects.

While that doesn't prove anything, I'd say explanatory/logical elegance is correlated-with/predictive-of making correct predictions, and as you might remember I consider that to be the basis of logic, and thus part of the basis for any belief beyond raw current experience, so you can probably see why my interest diminishes at that point.

I don't see any obvious sound way to totally preclude a "topological" (everything is one/fused/connected) world. If I was seriously investigating that model, I'd want to check if you can make it work without any super-luminal deformations. If it does require super-luminal deformations, I'd be super hesitant to take it any further. I'd also want to know what else it promises/gains over the current widely accepted models.

The other thing I'd want to make sure is addressed in a topological world model: you ever see someone trying to walk dogs? One dog would do, but two or more makes my point faster. See, dogs don't really understand leashes. They just do their thing, not compensating for the leashes at all. They will very quickly create tangles. I'd want to know what your solution for tangling without super-luminal deformations or information propagation is (or a good argument for why the only super-luminal effects are not actually a problem/contradition for everything else).

I do find it fun to idly try to reintepret what we know of subatomic particle interactions as between one topology-preserving Thing. Like, when you understand a proton as a rapidly changing arrangement which at any given moment is probably best modeled as three quarks (two "up", one "down", except which is which is constantly changing aiui) with strong nuclear force (I think they call it "color force" now?) interactions between each other... well, can we instead imagine those fundamental force propagations and state changes as topology-preserving changes between one thing? Sure, and we could probably re-use string theory for this - instead of vibrating n-dimensional branes you get vibrating n-dimensional protrusions of some larger thing. Okay. Sure. We can probably make it work, my intuition is that you might even be able to achieve feature-parity with the standard model. But then what? What does the extra complexity of all the topology manipulations gain you?

2. How is birth possible?

The same ways as in a non-topological universe remain available. Maybe you can think of others, but again, what does it add? Both of the hypotheses you state strike me as being in the same knowability class as a soul or a god. In principle unknowable, and all existing evidence is more simply explained without those things being real.

Long before you get to questions of topological vs not, you're implemented on neurons which are built out of molecules made up of atoms which themselves are made up of subatomic particles (some of which are made up of yet smaller particles - for example electrons seem to be best understood as not being made up of anything smaller, but protons seem to be best understood as made of quarks).

These things are so far removed from how human minds seem to be implemented in the brain wetware that I don't think it actually makes much of a difference if there's little strings connecting the building blocks which are orders of magnitude smaller.

In any model consistent with what we know of physics, you probably aren't that underlying topology-preserving substance. You'd be a cascade of information processing being done by pieces which are orders of magnitude larger.

(But if the topology-preserving substance is experiencing/cognition/mind-stuff, then to me of the two possibilities you suggested, the second one seems more likely, that we're all one extension of some greater whole, because of all explanatory models that have been empirically or logically testable, ones that add convenient infinities to the mix to make things work seem to always turn out mistaken or equivalent in predictive/modeling power to ones without such infinities. But that doesn't really rule it out. And again there's a functional equivalence there so can you ever really know which of the two it is? If there's enough telepathy-like information sharing between infinite distinct souls which are always topologically connected, even if it's only at specific moments, it kind of becomes equivalent for practical purposes to just being one huge soul with good ability to think/imagine many parallel isolated experience streams.)

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I once found comfort in the permanency, connection, and potential to affect the world offered by views like this. Believing that you are part of some larger eternal connected whole. That when this flesh puppet stops being able to pump electricity over neurons and chemicals between them, you won't really cease. That we can really touch other minds and stay in touch. That when the next powerless situation is upon you, you might have found a way to affect things. I've grown comfortable with being in a world that doesn't offer that. In most possibilities where it's true and matters, worst case I'll find out and adapt after I die. What else does it offer while I'm still alive?