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Thu 15 Sep 2022

Laws

Posted by PJ under daimonic reality, materialism, physics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The daimonic realm does not recognize, let alone obey, the laws on which the mechanistic and materialistic version of the world is based.

—Patrick Harpur, Daimonic Reality

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Mon 13 Jun 2022

Rockets

Posted by PJ under physics, psi, quote of the day, superstition
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Random quote of the day:

“If the research indicates some small psi effect today, and rockets take off according to the laws of Newtonian physics today, if we simply admit this telepathy research into the cannon—won’t a rocket still take off tomorrow?….We won’t necessarily have to rewrite the laws of physics, but more likely amend them. Isn’t this usual skeptical argument, that acknowledging telepathy will force us to rewrite the laws of physics, simply a kind of reverse superstition? A kind of hysteria?”

—Steve Volk, Fringe-ology

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Fri 29 Jul 2016

Perception

Posted by PJ under perception, physics, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The very fact that our vision of the world can be falsified as a result of further movement, observation, probing, etc., implies that there is more in the world than what we have perceived and known.”

—David Bohm, “Physics and Perception,” in The Essential David Bohm, ed. Lee Nichol

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Fri 12 Jul 2013

The same river, twice

Posted by PJ under death, physics, quote of the day, time
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Random quote of the day:

“People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”

—Albert Einstein, letter to the family of his friend, Michele Besso, upon
learning of his death, March 1955. Einstein died in April 1955.

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Fri 16 Nov 2012

Super

Posted by PJ under aliens, intelligence, physics, quote of the day, the universe
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“Let’s say that a ten-lane superhighway is being built next to [an] anthill. The question is: would the ants even know what a ten-lane superhighway is, or what it’s used for, or how to communicate with the workers who are just feet away? And the answer is no….If there is [another] civilization in our backyard, in the Milky Way galaxy, would we even known its presence?…There’s a good chance that we, like ants in an anthill, would not understand or be able to make sense of a ten-lane superhighway next door.”

—Dr. Michio Kaku, “Parallel Universes, the Matrix, and Superintelligence”

 

 

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Wed 26 Sep 2012

Beyond and beyond

Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, science, the universe, weird
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Space appears to be infinite in size. If so, then somewhere, everything that is possible becomes real, no matter how improbable it is.”

—Max Tegmark, “Parallel Universes,” Scientific American, May 2003

 

 

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Mon 11 Jun 2012

Crazy for loving neu(trinos)

Posted by PJ under creativity, physics, quote of the day, science
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Random quote of the day:

 

“We are all agreed that your theory is crazy.  The question that divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct.”

—Niels Bohr to Wolfgang Pauli regarding the Heisenberg-Pauli nonlinear theory of elementary particles, quoted in Symposisum on Basic Research by Dael Lee Wolfle

 

 

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Tue 22 May 2012

The Philosopher’s Stone

Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, reality, science
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“The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution.  It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations.  It is the explanation—the only one that is tenable—of a remarkable counter-intuitive reality.”

—David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality

 

 


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Wed 9 May 2012

Infinite gestation

Posted by PJ under physics, quote of the day, science, the universe
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Random quote of the day:

 

“Physicists are increasingly accepting the idea that there are infinite realities stacked together like the pages of a never-ending book.  So there are infinite versions of you, living out infinite different lives in infinite parallel realities.”

—Marcus Chown, The Universe Next Door: The Making of Tomorrow’s Science

 

 


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