Whatever you're about to say didn't make me less confused.

SubJeff on 18/11/2010 at 11:24

Awww. Loving SD's cute explanation of How Things Work itt.

Azaran on 18/11/2010 at 11:32

(http://www.psychicscience.org/staring.aspx) Here you can test your own precognitive abilities

nicked on 18/11/2010 at 13:18

Quote Posted by Briareos H

Was that a joke? Because none of the words in this sentence makes sense.

...Doesn't make sense in any way we've discovered yet! :weird:

SubJeff on 18/11/2010 at 16:58

Quote Posted by nicked

Hypothetically, there could be some univeral-oneness to human consciousness that means that somewhere very deep in our brains we are aware of the effects of the particles moving around us, and therefore have some sort of untapped spidey-sense.

Hypothetically anything is true except it isn't so let's just do away with useless thoughts, mmmk?

Azaran on 19/11/2010 at 07:12

Anyway, as expected, (http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827873.100-parapsychology-lessons-from-the-fringe.html) there's already widespread criticism of that study by other scientists

SD on 19/11/2010 at 17:21

Quote Posted by Subjective Effect

Awww. Loving SD's cute explanation of How Things Work itt.

Don't patronise me. I don't profess to be a physicist or a philosopher. I just see a universe with immutable physical laws set in motion by the Big Bang, and I don't see where randomness (chaos or whatever you want to call it) comes into it - or, indeed, why randomness would come into it at all.

Chimpy Chompy on 19/11/2010 at 17:39

Again unpredictability, ie randomness, comes up a lot in QM.

Queue on 19/11/2010 at 17:44

Predictably so.

SD on 19/11/2010 at 17:54

Quote Posted by Chimpy Chompy

Again unpredictability, ie randomness, comes up a lot in QM.

Is it really randomness, or does it just have the appearance of randomness?

If it's genuine randomness, then how does that fit into a universe with immutable physics?

Chimpy Chompy on 19/11/2010 at 17:58

Quite possibly actual randomness. Go read up on the EPR paradox and Bell's inequalities (makes my head hurt but i r dum). Einstein thought QM was incomplete and that "hidden variables" are controlling stuff behind the scenes, testing so far has suggested that ain't the case.