Re: we were from the stars...

Joe Pater wrote:
> do you remember that?
>
> I want to tell you about something that happened to me last night at my
> softball game...
>
> First, to give you some background...I've been trying to learn about
> quantum physics, crazy ***, basically it's the study of the tiniest
> things that make up everything in our world, I'm by no means well
> educated in this so I won't attempt to really explain it but here's a
> brief understanding -- it's looking at things all the way down to their
> smallest, tiniest form and figuring out what the hell they're doing. By
> learning how these particles act, science can better understand the
> matter which makes up the universe, and the way it behaves (or
> misbehaves). What they've found though is that these particles are
> constantly disappearing and reappearing...like they're leaving for a
> little while and coming right back. Sort of a mind bender that doesn't
> make much sense.
>
> But, what I was thinking is this...what if these little tiny particles
> were going to another part of our world for that split second and we're
> receiving someone else's particles for that split second...hmmm
>
> Well, last night...I was in the outfield, and there was a play made in
> the infield by a guy named John, a really good play, so, we're all
> saying "yeah John, nice play!" and I start walking back to my spot in
> the outfield and I notice from the field next to us I'm hearing "nice
> play John, nice job" I look over and there was just a play made by...a
> guy named John...now, I made sure I wasn't nuts, there really were
> people on that field saying "good job john" and a play had just been
> made.
>
> So, maybe it was just a pure coincidence but I think it may be a very
> early thought into maybe a theory that quantum physics could
> pursue...what if there is so much circularity in the world that there's
> a polar opposite to EVERYTHING that happens. For example - right now
> I'm writing you this but half way across the world the same thing is
> happening to some other person, they're writing a message on a board
> about something that happened to them...maybe even about the same
> subject and with the same type of connection that we have?
>
> Bottom line is that it was really interesting, sort of opened a new
> door. Coincidences, do we play a part in creating them? I know it's
> easy to believe it's just the randomness of our world but can we
> believe that we have nothing to do with it? If we do have pure control
> over every single movement then maybe we are playing a part in the
> coincidences we encounter? Doesn't that just open up a whole new
> door...everything that we believe is random is actually a product of
> our thoughts and actions?

So the choices are whether the people on the other field were
congratulating the guy on that field named john by coincidence, or
because of some mysterious quantum physics effect that we don't
understand? Yeah, it was just a coincidence. Or maybe everyone named
John is genetically superior at softball, or even weirder, that the
parents of children who are destine to be good at softball are
mysteriously drawn to name them John.

By the way, I know what you're saying about alternative universes in
quantum physics. I don't think scientists can say that the particles
are disappearing and reappearing, because under the heisenburg
uncertainty principle I don't think it's possible to actually track the
position and the momentum of a particle. So how would we know if it
blinks out or not? There are some mysterious forces out there but a
lot of them are really only conceivable on a subatomic scale.

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