Don't worry - we exist

[robkelk]

Spotted on the SJGames forums:

The Economist (referencing Physical Review Letters): Reality exists even when it isn't being observed

I'm sure somebody out there understands Hardy's Paradox, which is what Kazuhiro Yokota of Osaka University just proved is true. (Yes, he proved a paradox is true. Ouch.) But that somebody isn't me...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

Now that's seriously cool. I love stuff like that.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Logan Darklighter]

That's cool.

It makes my BRAIN HURT (gumby voice)...

but it's cool! ^_^

[Sweno]

and once again, reality is stranger than we can imagine
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Black Aeronaut]

I always knew there was something crazy in general about the Japanese and Canadian peoples. This is concrete proof. God bless 'em all. (^_^)V

[DHBirr]

Reality exists even when it isn't being observed.

But what if it's being rejected and substituted?
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[Ankhani]

Well, it still exists. Just in a more pleasant form which you substitute.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

[Rev Dark]

Okay... I am a science type and particle physics give me a Hadron.

[DHBirr]

A form which somebody, not necessarily me, substitutes. I don't think I'd care for the realities some people I know of would substitute.

Incidentally, I just realized this makes Descartes' famous line moot. What's the Latin for, "I don't have to think in order to be"?
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.

[robkelk]

But what if it's being rejected and substituted?

I reject that reality and substitute my own.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[ordnance11]

Does that mean then alternate realities can be proven to exist?

I see a Suzumiya Haruhi novel out of this.
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Into terror!,  Into valour!
Charge ahead! No! Never turn
Yes, it's into the fire we fly
And the devil will burn!
- Scarlett Pimpernell

[Dragonflight]

Only if you don't know they're there.
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Those who fear the darkness have never seen what the light can do.