Thursday, May 19, 2016

Alone

From my perspective your eyes aren't really in one place at one time.  Stick with me here because it'll make sense I promise.  Not only aren't your eyes in one place at one time but your whole body and the entire universe isn't either.  And you might be thinking okay well maybe because we're all on a spinning earth in a spinning solar system in a spinning galaxy in a wobbling universe but no, that's not what I'm talking about. 

IBM did an experiment over fifty years ago that proved a theory Einstein called the Einstein Poldosky Rosen (EPR) Paradox.  Einstein called it "spooky motion at a distance" and it stated that no matter how far away we might perceive two things to be they are actually interacting.  Today many people have postulated we could "teleport" anywhere using an EPR bridge, the big downside is we'd have to be disintegrated to nothing before appearing on the other side.  Michael Crichton did a great book that was made into a so so movie about that theory. 

Where I'm going with this is are we really alone at all in the universe?  Not only as a species but as beings formed with consciousness and the ability to recognize our place in the universe?  Are we born alone, do we die alone? Is your body here right now or are you really interacting with everything in the universe all at once and just don't have the sensory ability to know what's happening? 

Richard Feynman, the founder of Quantum Mechanics, said he's confident no one understands quantum mechanics and I don't either.  Discovering more about how integrated our action are will be interesting.  According to the EPR paradox our every action is never alone.  


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