nonservium

I know the supernatural exists. And it isn't something that is a matter of rationale or intellectualism. 2 centuries ago, they didn't even know oxygen existed and the idea of microorganisms was science-fantasy. When the steam engine really looked like it could be a success as a form of transport, not just mechanical output, scientists of the day declared that we would all suffocate to death for the air rushing by us too fast at 50mph. They used to think the atom was the smallest building block of the universe, but THAT was split into something called quarks. The only reason we think a black hole exists and we spend so much effort LOOKING for them is because someone sat down and showed the possibility mathematically.

Science does not deny the possibility of multiple dimensions occupying the same space-time. Perhaps even INFINITE dimensions. That is more mind-boggling to me than the possibility of electromagnetic residues we call ghosts, which only people with a particular range of brain frequencies can pick up.

The supernatural isn't outside of your realm of thought, you are just allowing a certain way of viewing things to dominate your process of acceptance and dismissal. In the end science and magic really aren't that different. When the scientific community began getting deep into quantum physics and encountering bizzare behaviour, for example particles at relatively huge distances somehow interacting with one another with NO detectable energy exchanged between them that would provide proof of exchange of information. Sub-particle Telepathy? Or a particle disappearing in one space-time point and instantaneously appearing somewhere else and with every suggestion that it is the exact same particle, with the same spin, same velocity. Faster-than-Light travel? particle level teleportation? This sort of stuff was VERY mathematical as well as present in experiements. Maths being the most, if not THE most solid form of evidence. All things quantum got scientists very nervous because the line between science and magic became very, very blurred.

The best description of the human brain I heard was this. The brain is not a creative organ but a NEGATING organ. The brain CUTS DOWN the information streams we receive to a level where we won't be overwhelmed and be struck catatonic with stimuli. What if there were individuals born who had their filtration protocols different from the norm? All due to something very easily accepted by the scientific community as mutation. Or perhaps even as mundane as diet or drugs.

And here's a funny one I hadn't even realised they haven't figured out yet. If light is considered both a wave and a particle, then it's wave quality needs something to be a 'wave' in right? Sound waves require a level of gas or liquid or even solid. To a point the denser he better. Sound travels better in water than in air. Sound doesn't exist in space, in a vacuum, but light DOES. And when experiments (remember the interference pattern experiment from grade-school physics? a light bulb and a slate with two slits in it?) are done in space or a even a vacuum chamber here on Earth, the interference pattern still works. The intereference patterns depends on the wave quality of light for it's result. So....in a vacuum...what is light 'waving' through? No one knows...


[Edited on May 09, 2003]

grad school is hard too... but it's diffrent.

but i know what you mean about thinking about work at inopertune times. sometimes i feel like charging work by the hour for my dreams.