Michael McMahon

Indeed I’ll have to mimic Copernicus’ deathbed publication on his heliocentric revolution to avoid insults!

One way to visualise a vertical planetary rotation for gravity is to merely imagine the upright rings of Uranus: “Uranus is different from other planets — its axis of rotation is tilted 98º to the plane of the solar system.“

In spite of being age 29 I struggle to ask any woman out for a date because I can’t fully settle on a confidence level between a welfare applicant and a posthumous noble prize winner! Perhaps I shouldn’t even need a date to marry someone! One way to take Einstein’s relativity theory literally is that we might not be able to distinguish the vertical and horizontal directions apart in absolute space. As such we could theoretically rotate the solar system as moving in the vertical rather than the horizontal direction relative to a perpendicular galaxy. This way the oval shape of the Earth could be viewed as spinning vertically on its elongated axis rather than sideways on its shortened axis. This would better resemble the vertical convectional currents of magma in the Earth’s mantle. It’d then be easier to visualise how you’d be crashing into the Earth’s vertical tilt as you drive to force you to remain at ground level. The Earth might appear to be rotating like a boomerang with an uneven centre of gravity in the vertical direction to perpetually rotate around the Sun. Am I missing something?! Oblate vs vertically oriented prolate spheroid

One reason emotional intelligence is tested in medical aptitude entrance exams might be that those nerdy students opposing the exams lacked enough emotional wit to do so more intensely!

The combination problem of how consciousness is unified in the mind might be helped if the brain were viewed as mono-sensory. So the brain could be viewed as exclusively visual for an able bodied person or exclusively audial for a blind person. That’s a simplistic solution to avoid the need to reconcile other senses! So one way to think of a lobotomy of removing your frontal cortex is much like blindsight where you can’t focus on the background even if you can detect far-sighted scenes such that you’d be less able to think clearly. Alternatively you might be less able to subvocalise when your frontal cortex is close to your mouth. We could think of secondary senses slower than the speed of light like touch or taste as being almost self-sufficient in the sense organ or the peripheral nervous system without burdening the visual brain too much. Were perspective viewed as a real force much like objects contracting into the distance as if objects were formed by lasers then a simplistic observation is that more computational power would be needed to consciously perceive an object. That way the entire brain rather than just the occipital lobe might be required for vision. One way to think of tinnitus might be that the brain is detecting the empty cavity in the skull connecting you to your ear as if your head shape is misperceived. Were the brain entirely visual then this would help overcome your eyelids to your vision as spherical like your brain instead of square like a TV!

“I’m not God but to play God” I could ponder if colours were completely subjective then would redshifting in outer galaxies imply that time was slowing down in such regions rather than just the frequency of light? That way if you through a spear at the edge of the universe then time might simply freeze. When it comes to dualism then there’d be no one as far as we know in outer galaxies to affect a potentially slowed rate of time as if time also had an impersonal quality. “The javelin argument, credited to Lucretius, is an ancient logical argument that the universe, or cosmological space, must be infinite. The javelin argument was used to support the Epicurean thesis about the universe. It was also constructed to counter the Aristotelian view that the universe is finite.“

One way to interpret Einstein’s hypothesis of gravitational waves were the Sun to disappear is to simply observe the apparent red-shifting of light during a sunset. So we can still see sunlight even when the Sun has passed the horizon much like a mirage where the light refracts down in the atmosphere. Perhaps a solution to quantum gravity is to simply give up where there might not be quantum gravity! A slowing down of light during sunset would help to explain our circadian rhythms! The Sun isn’t literally disappearing but only from our own evolutionary minds so to speak! Simply Red - Sunrise (Remastered) Mirage diagram: (Less dense hotter air on ground is the same for an orange sunset) “Entropic gravity, also known as emergent gravity, is a theory in modern physics that describes gravity as an entropic force—a force with macro-scale homogeneity but which is subject to quantum-level disorder—and not a fundamental interaction… In 2009, Erik Verlinde proposed a conceptual model that describes gravity as an entropic force. He argues (similar to Jacobson's result) that gravity is a consequence of the "information associated with the positions of material bodies". This model combines the thermodynamic approach to gravity with Gerard 't Hooft's holographic principle. It implies that gravity is not a fundamental interaction, but an emergent phenomenonwhich arises from the statistical behavior of microscopic degrees of freedom encoded on a holographic screen.”

Are space dimensions objective like metres or relativistic like personal feet units? One way to find out might be if you changed the depth on the final screen of the double slit experiment. So when a multiprong interference pattern occurs for unobserved electrons then you could move that screen much closer to the double slit. This would help rule out the electrons moving diagonally to the interference prongs on the far edges as if the electrons were moving straight from the edge of double slit card to the interference pattern like a probabilistic wave. After all an electron is so small that even having the interference screen one centimetre from the double slit could be sufficient as millions of electron lengths. Or if you moved the interference screen further away from the double slit then would the prongs on the interference pattern form further apart to avoid visual perspective or closer together to abide by visual perspective? What other variables could be ruled out? A double slit experiment performed in a vacuum to avoid air molecule collisions! A relativistic version of quantum mechanics might mean that you could have any particle like a neutron or a photon chosen as your favourite length where every other particle would be measured in terms of your favourite particle. Anyway for every thread blocked is a potential way for me to form a new thread lest I be banned altogether! “One way to interpret the quantum double slit experiment through the lens of classical mechanics might be if a torch was shone through a double slit rather than a laser beam! Moderator Note And, on a related note, your thread on this was closed for lack of rigor.” 3:48 mirror perspective discussion: The Matrix Resurrections 2021 Clips: The Tokyo Train Fighting Scene Could the multi-prong interference pattern during the double slit experiment function like illusory glare on your glasses?!

Apologies I was over-excited by a potential revolution in philosophical semantics where at the beginning I was meant to say a particle or a wave!

They say an electron is either a bubble or a wave but how do you know an electron isn’t just a bubble in a sea of electrons?! That way the observer effect might make slightly more sense because the act of observation would burst or split an electron bubble. Could an electron have surface tension around an inner empty space much like the bubbles in a lava lamp? A candle light always burns upwards even if you bend a candle stick diagonally much like how geotropism dictates that the roots of a tree grow vertically downwards even on a steep mountain slope. So a candle flame is attracted to the more diffuse air above. Were light a heavy particle then much like a gradual bullet drop after firing it should eventually fall to the ground. Yet light shone horizontally from a lighthouse would sink to the water after hundreds of miles due to refraction at the horizon much like Snell’s window rather than gravity due to a less dense upper atmosphere. As such light is almost repellent against gravity where light moves faster shone upwards to less dense air much like the phototropism of the leaves growing in the opposite direction of the roots. The way there’s a faint blue tint at the base of the vertical candle flame on a slanted candle mimics a momentary blue-shift as if light immediately travels at such high speeds due to tiny colour changes in frequency. (Horizontal Ancient Egyptian dog in the background to add context!) One way to interpret the quantum double slit experiment through the lens of classical mechanics might be if a torch was shone through a double slit rather than a laser beam. So even though there’d only be two light beams with a shadow between them after a torch double slit experiment then much like the two raised metal beams of a train track meeting at the horizon so too could the split torch beam meet at the horizon. When this happens could there be destructive and constructive interference patterns much like how a distant star in the night sky looks smaller due to perspective allowing more stars to be seen. Incidentally I formed some of these ideas on a quite country road last night where the magical stars exposed the desolation of underused misty agricultural fields ripe for collectivism. An ironic advantage of socialism is that studying and working non-stop is actually compatible with the humble idea of having never studied or worked seeing as anyone harder working might be incomparable due to a spiral effect. By contrast those who might underwork in communism or capitalism or those who study less hard are at risk of even thinking they’d worked relative to stronger people. As such socialism can resemble an aura of counterbalanced evil in any capitalistic or communist genres! No wonder two police guarda stopped me in their car to see how I was doing knowing that I’d ventured too far from my hometown of Ennis to the neighbouring aloof village of Clarecastle en route towards the posh hotels and big country estates of Newmarket! Who knows if my theories in science are impartially helped by having never been biased by studying more mainstream theories!

Sublimation: to pass or cause to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state. Something sublime is wonderful so who knows whether’s there’s a pun here where the ghost in the machine is like the sublimation of our solid neurons into gaseous audial thoughts without subvocalisation. It’s in our inner mind or inner ear so to speak more so than our inner eye! frozen carbon dioxide (dry ice) The CO2 we breathe out might be a metaphor for dry ice as we hear our breathing and morph the sounds of our inhalation and exhalation or our lub-dub of our heartbeat into our acoustic thoughts.

Lets get back to basics where the Ancient Greeks mused that the world is made of earth, air, water and fire. So the simplest way to resolve quantum mechanics is to inquire whether fire is a particle or a wave. If fire was torched through an iron double slit then what would such an interference pattern resemble? Unlike a water wave a fire wave would not only diverge but also converge back into one flame after a double slit due to chaotic meandering. Rodded road drain on fire So is it possible that a two-prong interference pattern could still be a wave as if the vertical landing of an electron on either prong is still random top-to-bottom even if the horizontal landing isn’t so random? A radar gun doesn’t measure speed differences in light as such because as we know from Einstein the outgoing wave immediately travels at light speed irrespective of any relative velocity from the observers car or walking speed without there being a gradual acceleration to light speed. Moreover the reflected light speed from the perpetrator’s car is ironically the same speed where only the frequency has changed owing to the Doppler effect. So could the observer effect in the double slit experiment be a frequency change in electrons from a double prong to a multi-prong as if the observer was merely a polaroid of sorts? If fire is a destructive process then was matter made of photons all along? https://www.clearvibrations.net/how-does-a-police-radar-gun-work/#:~:text=In simple terms%2C a radar,after bouncing off an object. A simplistic solution to quantum gravity might be that if outer space is freezing cold and the Earth’s mantle is molten hot then the latent heat of fusion between keeping you a solid or sublimating you straight into a gas would alter your density due to diffusion. This means that Earth’s heat could sink you into remaining at ground level. Gravity would then act like a Cold War nuclear stalemate between the planets to preserve thermal equilibrium!

A limitation of the uncertainty principle is not only does knowing one variable like location make another variable like speed more uncertain but there’s also a problem of deflection. So if you roll a ping pong towards a bowling ball you can infer the original speed of the bowling ball by the new speed of the ping pong. Yet there’s still a small bit of deflection on the bowling ball due to a conservation of energy and Newton’s law of for every action there’s an equal and opposite reaction. I don’t exactly know what the detector is in the double slit experiment but how do you know that if a detector emits particles to observe the original electrons that those electrons aren’t confined like a tunnel barrier?

I learned that the camera detector is actually pointing at the double slit in certain versions of the double slit experiments where the top slit is tagged as if with a polaroid instead of the camera pointing towards the final screen. So an alternative solution might be that the final screen that showed the interference pattern is itself also a quantum system like glass. Hence in this inverted solution there might only ever be two-prongs with the remaining prongs being an illusion of double vision where the slight translucency and transparency of a glass screen wouldn’t fully capture a photon to describe its precise location. When you hold your finger in front of your eyes then it’s the light the produces a double image rather than a cloning of objects in the background only that in the double split experiment light or electrons are themselves the objects rather than the “glass” medium. Double image blurring of flower vase shadow on double pane windows

A counterargument against materialism might be how the photon seems to require a second photon to be a wave in the double slit experiment rather than just one photon being a wave in itself. So in the double slit experiment not only could you fire electrons individually but for emphasis you could delay each electron for 5 minutes. Then how would an electron be connected temporally to an electron fired 5 minutes prior to be diffracted with where they ought to have been two separate waves. In other words if an electron travels randomly then why would its motion become more random after the double slit towards the interference pattern on the last screen rather than just crashing into the first screen beside the double slit? Could the electron quantum tunnel through the first screen to appear to be deflected on the multi-prong interference pattern?! To paraphrase an argument I made in the opening post if you attempt to emit an electron straight in way that immediately becomes a slightly random direction then maybe it has to be detected on the camera from a random direction as if the electron was always moving randomly rather than temporarily being random after the double slit.

One way to think of the observer effect in the double slit experiment is if the lens of the eye functioned like a prism where the multi-pronged interference pattern on the screen merges into two prongs in your eyes much like white light separating into multiple colours on a prism. prism

One way to resolve a paradox is to counterbalance it with another paradox. So the way the double slit experiment is ranked less difficult than the mind-body problem means that the double slit experiment might be metaphysically flawed rather than just mathematically flawed. The quantum uncertainty principle applies not only to the photon interference pattern but also to the imprecise location of the camera detector or the eye. The more you know about movement the less you know about location rhymes with the motion blurs of a hallucination rather than just consciousness(!): The Babysitter - Bella Thorne An advantage of free thought is that even if you’re wrong there’s no limit to how extreme any other belief system can be in such a way that rejecting my belief system can still anyone to be more extreme about their own scientific beliefs. For example the idea of using a mirror in the detector in my opening post is a bit like time symmetry in a light beam as if the light were sucked out of the black screen back to the electron emitter much like a magnet: Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone - First scene: street light suction In other words if light is fully distinct from atomic matter then light might not obey entropy seeing as any heat that causes chaos is caused by changing electron orbitals but technically not the light emission spectra itself. That way light could theoretically move forward and backward in time. “By splitting a photon, or packet of light, using a special optical crystal, two independent teams of physicists have achieved what they describe as a "quantum time flip," in which a photon exists in both forward and backward time states.” https://www.space.com/quantum-time-flipped-photon-first-time

True yet the double slit experiment uses very little light. “The human eye is very sensitive; but can we see a single photon? The answer is yes: sensors in the retina can respond to a single photon. But neural filters only allow a signal to pass to the brain to trigger a conscious response when at least about five to nine arrive within less than 100 ms.“ math.ucr

Extromission theory about eye beams might appear ridiculous to a materialist but there’s also an inverse problem in intromission theory where if you look at a dark room then the room should somehow get a tiny bit darker to account for the lost light trapped by your eyes that’s no longer capable of reflecting back and forth diffusely off objects in the room. “Specular reflection, which occurs with smooth surfaces like mirrors, causes light rays to reflect at the same angle as they hit the surface. Diffuse reflection, which occurs with rougher surfaces, scatters light rays in different directions.”

An ironic advantage of spirituality is that to promote relevance to astronomical transcendence or unconsciousness means that you know you’re absolutely not relevant to a specific quantum system. By contrast those promoting materialism might accidentally imply there was a sarcastic risk of themselves being slightly relevant by stating they weren’t relevant in a way that could backfire for atomic nanometers! So when we think of obsessions about semantics in philosophy it might turn out relevant in clarifying the double slit experiment. For example when we observe a classical object like a chair there’s a surplus of photons whereas when we think of the double slit experiment it’s almost like it’s nighttime where the photons are emitted individually. So when a camera detects a photon in the double slit experiment the photon is by definition in the camera and no longer on the screen. In other words the surplus of photons for recording a large classical object means that there can be an illusion that there are pairs of photons with one on the camera screen and one on the classical object. Hence when we think of the double slit experiment as being in the dark then we cannot tell how the detected photon travelled from the last black screen to the camera. If the photons were randomly diffracted by the double slits then it’s possible they were randomly reassembled when the photons re-appeared on the camera as if the the last black screen were a lenticular image with a momentary multi-prong interference pattern that appeared like 2 prongs to the camera. We could also risk making a false dichotomy between the observer and a photon if consciousness were itself photonic such that the photon no longer exists after contacting the eye’s retina and is converted to an electrical stimulus in the brain. In other words the conservation of energy states that energy cannot be created or destroyed where energy can only be converted from one form into another. So when we think all that’s needed is a camera to break the interference pattern in the double slit experiment then we could think of a human observer as being just like an eye that captures photons rather than a complex brain. Another metaphor is to think of light as being like alternating current rather than direct current where we cannot tell whether light travelled in a straight line from the last black screen in the diagram above to the camera. A shortcut might be to think of the last black screen as being like a mirror that reflects light back through the double slit such that we can only see two lines where the rest were blocked by the cards used to form the double slit. A last resort were the markings on the last black screen just a hollow vestige of a photon rather than a photon itself might be that if an observer is illogical than the experiment would somehow turn out to be illogical in a random way simply because the material world wouldn’t conspire with our own importance if we’re spiritually self-sufficient! Even though America won the Cold War and put a man on the moon it’s possible welfare is still justifiable if no one can be serious when the standard of capitalism imposed by quantum mechanics is artificial intelligence! Darth Vader (Star Wars)

Determinists assume they’re better at determinism than the free will advocates fathoming evil against determinism knowing that the might of the material world can withstand evil! So determinists might risk falling for bait where chaos theory isn’t technically required by time-travelling versions of sleep even if it’s offered as a concession. So when you ponder if your mental decisions can be predicted if God knew the movement of every atom in the universe then surely it’d be much easier to predict the movements of your neurons if you knew the position and charge of every neuron in a brain scan. So when you go to sleep it’s easier for your brain to predict the future of your sleeping brain independent of external stimuli using simple Newtonian mechanics in such a way that you’d actually be less deterministic when you’re awake by receiving chaotic sensory stimuli from the external environment. Yet the inference that you’re actually superdeterministic when you’re asleep and less deterministic when you’re awake could be read as sarcasm if materialism exceeds your mind where the clue is immaterial. “So Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion…” She Nailed It (Final Destination 3 2006)

If the hard problem of consciousness is at risk of taking another millennium to resolve then we might have to take the nuclear option! According to idealism where the world is only consciousness then in theory the mind could somehow survive a nuclear detonation for an afterlife. So one way to think of slow-wave sleep is like nuclear fusion where each half of the brain shares ideas in one timeline. Then REM sleep might resemble nuclear fission where each half of the brain disentangles from the corpus callosum to form independent ideas in two simultaneous timelines. That way a subsequent slow-wave sleep would merge the ideas formed during REM sleep to recursively knock us further unconscious rather than just the initial slow-wave sleep after trying to lie down in bed awake. An ironic limitation of determinism is that some evil people might not actually want to be forgiven with rehabilitation purposes in such a way that people could have free will to be evil if only to represent the worldview of evil even if they’re still somehow deterministic to others. The mist can be an active reminder of how internal the world might be were the nighttime too passive in blurring objects. So I saw a bit of a pulsating purple beam from eyes if I stared too long in the mist at the top of Croagh Patrick recently as a form of blue field entoptic phenomenon. I joked to my father who climbed with me how the fog can resemble short sightedness as if it were wave-particle duality!

One reason I didn’t eat too many apples and oranges in the past is that I drank so much apple and orange juice that were so sweet that I became suspicious of the boring taste of solid apples and oranges. I thought perhaps apples and oranges were meant to taste sweet when I become middle aged. After all the small mandarins can be so sweet. Yet now I suspect the apple and orange might intentionally be bland in taste as if the solid substances were trying to counteract a sweet tooth of the juices inside. So you’d need a faith that the apple and orange were still secretly very sweet to have this viewpoint.

Well a cheetah has a smaller head than a lion and the cheetah can still breathe as efficiently as possible. A larger head in terms of breathing might be more about multitasking where you can still breathe mostly efficiently without having to focus as hard on it. So someone with a larger upper body can indirectly use their larger neck muscles to assist their breathing even if their larger neck muscles weigh them down a bit during running.

Many adults and teenagers with smaller heads can still be very intelligent and athletic. Yet when we admire a larger bodybuilder like Arnold Schwarzenegger we forget that he might be helped in maintaining more upper body strength simply by having a larger brain and head size. So even though many track athletes have a diverse head size it’s still possible when we think of lions that their larger muscles can be helped by having a larger head to breathe more efficiently.