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kentuck

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23. It's just my imagination...

Fri Oct 7, 2022, 12:26 AM

Oct 2022

running away with me.

“Real,” meaning that objects have definite properties independent of observation—an apple can be red even when no one is looking;

I have often wondered if we see the same object or scenery when we look at it?

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The Universe Is Not Locally Real, and the Physics Nobel Prize Winners Proved It [View all] Nevilledog Oct 2022 OP

Fascinating.. I_UndergroundPanther Oct 2022 #1

K&R Solly Mack Oct 2022 #2

Cool stuff! Thanks for the link...nt Wounded Bear Oct 2022 #3

More evidence that we are living in a simulation? W_HAMILTON Oct 2022 #4

The way I understand it, the space between galaxies is expanding faster then the speed of light Kaleva Oct 2022 #6

"dark energy" being code for "meh, some kind of weird shit we don't understand" anarch Oct 2022 #38

Nothing can travel faster than light (in local space) because of Einstein's "E equals MC squared" Earth-shine Oct 2022 #7

In a given spacetime light speed is the limit but triron Oct 2022 #8

Guess that tree falling in the forest that we didn't hear... brush Oct 2022 #5

Our brains transform what our senses detect into objects, smells or sensations Kaleva Oct 2022 #9

That's a good summary of what the scientists seem... brush Oct 2022 #12

I had in mind a semi that crosses the center divider, heading straight for you Jack the Greater Oct 2022 #20

But remove all the senses and the universe no longer exists. Kaleva Oct 2022 #36

I don't get that. If one person doesn't have senses, it's still there. brush Oct 2022 #49

Kinda like the Universe outside the observable boundry Kaleva Oct 2022 #51

It's there. We're in it. The Earth is in it. Call it the universe of whatever else... brush Oct 2022 #52

But we can never prove it's there Kaleva Oct 2022 #53

Like I said, call it whatever you want to call it, we're here... brush Oct 2022 #54

Great question. Delphinus Oct 2022 #37

The more we learn, the more we find that we don't know yet. keithbvadu2 Oct 2022 #10

If looking at the night sky is viewing the past light.. Bluethroughu Oct 2022 #11

Can someone smarter than me please explain what they have proven? Ferrets are Cool Oct 2022 #13

That is not possible, Einstein is no longer alive. nt DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #15

That information can possibly be transmitted faster than the speed of light oioioi Oct 2022 #40

Try to find a lay man's explanation of Bell's theorem. triron Oct 2022 #50

This message was self-deleted by its author DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #61

I think I have found it stated simply DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #62

Nothing SPOOKY about entangled beach balls DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #14

... providing the two beach balls had exactly the same mass, shape, size, coefficient of friction Jack the Greater Oct 2022 #21

Nice Points DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #29

Or just providing that we knew what they were. Or maybe something Hortensis Oct 2022 #46

The speed of deduction is faster than the speed of light? Nice! Iggo Oct 2022 #22

lol DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #27

Imagine that! Hekate Oct 2022 #16

Fascinating colsohlibgal Oct 2022 #17

Kick dalton99a Oct 2022 #18

Who else watched the whole video Jack the Greater Oct 2022 #26

This has been explained to me over and over Duppers Oct 2022 #30

at 9:10 the video gets it wrong DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #31

I take it back DontBelieveEastisEas Oct 2022 #34

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️ Lucinda Oct 2022 #19

It's just my imagination... kentuck Oct 2022 #23

There is general agreement among observers, of specific properties of that which is being observed Jack the Greater Oct 2022 #25

Sometimes I have thought that our minds are like digital cameras. kentuck Oct 2022 #28

An apple is being "observed" and "measured" constantly.., Buckeye_Democrat Oct 2022 #56

Isn't this just pointing out that flying rabbit Oct 2022 #24

Yes that is how I see it as well. honest.abe Oct 2022 #32

This message was self-deleted by its author dalton99a Oct 2022 #33

Both are valid. Newtonian physics i.e. 'classical' mechanics predominates when the mass is large dalton99a Oct 2022 #45

These concepts are actually quite old. PurgedVoter Oct 2022 #35

Chatting with a friend's son a while ago, one of those guys whose Hortensis Oct 2022 #44

I read the excerpt, full of praise and a couple of curious quotes, and I remain baffled. msfiddlestix Oct 2022 #39

Firesign Theatre knew way back whenevers. Kid Berwyn Oct 2022 #41

Fascinating stuff. Swede Oct 2022 #42

So the philosophers have been right all along sarisataka Oct 2022 #43

Every 100 years scientists discover everything they thought was true is wrong, here we go... Shanti Shanti Shanti Oct 2022 #47

Everything you know is wrong sarisataka Oct 2022 #48

That's the pure beauty of science. Yavin4 Oct 2022 #58

We are needing another Einstein/Tesla, to jump to the next level, chop, chop... Shanti Shanti Shanti Oct 2022 #60

Not The Philosophers, The Beatles! Towlie Oct 2022 #57

It sounds like our universe is a hologram Uncle Joe Oct 2022 #55

The holographic universe explains a lot of things. Liberal In Texas Oct 2022 #63

John Bell proved mathematically that nonlocality is real triron Oct 2022 #59