Another one pinched by the blue writing pervert https://not606.com/threads/things-that-arent-worth-a-new-thread.401063/page-124
More recently I've got into watching some youtube videos about quantum entaglement, mainly because I believe in fate, that everything happens for a reason and one event leads to an uncountable number of other events. What I've never been able to decide in my own little world is if fate is predetermined and quantum entanglement opens up that discussion for me. Anyway, it can get quite complex with some very long youtube videos, so I've had to search for something that will keep it simple to understand and something that is not taking ages to watch, so 5mins+ fits more information in than most other videos, which leave important bits out ie I consider the distance theories important. Finally I like the idea at the end of the video they keep the connection with religion, what if everything in life is predetermined...
Einstein called entanglement "Spooky action at a distance" and was never happy with it. Funny thing is though that he was one of the main proponents that we travel a fixed space-time continuum, and, to an extent, time is an illusion, and the past, present, and future all exist at once. The antithesis to this is is the apparent randomness of the quantum world, and the many worlds theory that nothing is fixed. The BBC series Devs was excellent, IMO, as have been several episodes of the Simpsons, Family Guy, and Futurama. And Dr Who! Whatever the answer, it will be, in our eyes, absurd and seemingly unrelated to our experience within these four dimensions that we know - just like religion, perhaps?
Funny you should mention it, but I watching a video tonight on the many worlds / universes theory, but didn't put it up because I'm never sure how interested people are in it. I think I've covered off before on here about time being an illusion and that everything exists at once, along with my more recent video on quantum entanglement. Even tonight's video brought in about the quantum mechanics element and that of photons. I've not got a fixed idea on any of it at the mo other than my belief in fate, in the sense of everything happening for a reason - I'm not sure if I ever will become clear on it, other than aliens are a figment of the human imagination, but then some might argue isn't all of this. Maybe so, but it brings curiosity to what otherwise appears to be a pointless existence.
Not sure I'm convinced that things exist in multiple states and possibilities until they're measured by us mere mortals. What if we didn't exist to measure it all, would that mean the universe and everything in it wouldn't exist? Seems a bit arrogant on our part, especially as we're an infinitesimal speck in this vast cosmos. Almost like saying the universe revolves around us.
And that is the cornerstone of the Anthropic Principle - just off to bed now, so won't go too deep, but the similarities of Wheeler's theory and a medieval Godhead construct to explain the inexplicable is, er, very explicable. just reminds me of a line from a play by GB Shaw comparing monks from the Dark Ages counting angels dancing on the heads of pins to the quasi-mathematics of the early quantum mechanics. Mathematics that was consistently proven right, btw.
