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KatRobin said:
What causes consternation nowadays, in my view, is that the pace of life has stepped up so dramatically and people are under so much pressure to get to work, not to mention the over burdening if services and infrastructure, that we simply can’t cope with a clog in the arteries. Over-reactionism is a side effect of stress and intolerance.

I like it. It makes me think. Like I don't do enough of that already.

Of course, if you look at history, it seems that we have always had a tendency towards over-reaction. Would you be surprised that I have a theory?

Whickwithy · Post edited by Whickwithy at 2018-03-04 07:30:36

serenity52 said:

Interesting picture. Where is that one?

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Urban_Tribesman said:
Just behind the camera

I was looking all over the pic for the haystack until I went and read this, again. I remember having to shovel out of the house one year in Michigan. Has anyone ever been able to skate on the roads? Take a small canoe on the roads?

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That picture Whickwithy is of the coast and marina of the Costa Del Sol- late evening time. We went up into the hills on a cable car for a telescope session where you can look at stars and ride a donkey.

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The colours in the sky are amazing.

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I kinda liked the hand for perspective. I thought it might be a very weird structured house at first...

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How were the stars? I can remember seeing the Milky Way when I was a kid. Haven't seen it since, really.

serenity52 · Post edited by serenity52 at 2018-03-04 16:06:53

They were very clear and very bright. Saw a few shooting stars too. They amaze me so much. I've always found space to be fascinating, and the moon's gravitational pull on the earth. That silver eye out there is important to us. It oxygenates the seas and keeps sea life alive. I guess it stabilised our planet too but i wish they could conduct a space expedition that goes bigger and further than man has ever gone before.

Quantum Physics- an area I'm interested in but doubt I'd have the ability to wrap my head around it.

I really want to visit Greece and Cyprus. Definitely Rome too. I'd be taking pictures all day.

Whickwithy · Post edited by Whickwithy at 2018-03-04 18:14:33

Quantum physics is pretty cool. It does bend the brain but that's what makes it so cool. One of my favorites is the double slit experiment deployed using a gravitation lens. The double slit experiment is just wild. You shoot a photon of light at a pair of slits and the photon can go through on or the other or both. Yeah, it's the both that you just have to accept and kinda ignore. If you shoot enough photons through and you make a pretty picture on the other side composed of where the photons hit due to the slits, you get a pretty pattern with lines of dark and lighter lines in between. If you look at the photons as they go through, you get a totally different pattern made up of two lines (one for each slit). You have forced the photons, by looking at them, into picking one slit or the other. Photons act either like a wave or a particle. They act like a wave as long as no one is looking at them and can go through both slits at the same time. If you look at them, they collapse from a wave of possibilities into a particular particle with a particular path. They can no longer go through both of them. Even crazier is that you can use a camera instead of your eye and it still has the same effect.

Anyways, they found a way to use gravitational lensing (which is the fact that light bends in the vicinity of a strong gravity, like a sun) to do the double slit experiment and it worked! Now, that may not seem to whacky until you realize that the photons had to make a decision about whether they were waves or particles before they wen through the 'slits' (the gravitational lens of a star millions of light-years from Earth). That means they had to make the decision millions of years in the past before we ever looked at them. Now, that' crazy.

Quantum entanglement is fun too but the video gets into all of that stuff pretty well.

I was just watching one on BBC concerning the multi-universe concept that things like the superstring theories, like m-theory, say is possible. Here's the link. That area of BBC, The Big Questions) is pretty cool. A kind of info I prefer over the stupid news.

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161021-why-there-could-be-many-copies-of-you

Ahhh! I finally found what I was looking for! Here are a couple of pretty cool videos on quantum mechanics. There are more on the site:

http://whatthebleep.com/down-the-rabbit-hole/

Double slit experiment:

At this site, you will find a video named: "Dr. Quantum And The Double Slit experiment" and "Dr. Quantum And Entanglement". Pretty good explanations, I think.

What's really cool is that the sense one gets is that we create our own existence to a great extent, greater than just the macro events that we participate in. Mmmm, kinda like magic. If we had enough wit, we might be able to do some truly incredible things.

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