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   Hehe Fayaz, how about double or nothing 

Originally posted by Dark4

What I don't get is, according to the film, reality as we see it is untrue and is formed only by the way our brains perceive it and visualize it. So that means every person that has been run over by a car or shot or something created that reality in their brain and lived it. 
Also, everything discussed in it contradicts Newtonian physics, which is what we've all been taught and still teach today. I dunno, I have my doubts on it, but its interesting nonetheless. 

It all goes back to the old 'mind over matter' ideas and all.

It's a big step from the thinking we've been taught our entire lives "material realism" as some call it, to more of a mystic interpretation of the universe..but from what I've studied, all signs point to the latter. 

The 'mind over matter' is exactly what we're talking about here..how some people (usually preforming religious ceremonies) can perfrom acts that would seem to defy reality. 

As for good ol' Newtonian physics, nothing in quantum mechanics will say that it is somehow invalid, it's still real and practical to use..quantum mechanics mearly picks up where Newton left off. The real problem is trying to unify Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity, but we have people like Brian Greene and Stephen Hawking to work on that 

One of my favorite "applications" if you will is the awkward dilema of Schrodinger's Cat. For those who haven't read or heard anything about it.. picture a cat inside of box with a bottle of poision and a hammer ready to smash the bottle. The release mechanism for the hammer depends on the decay of 1 atom of a radioactive material. Because the decay is based merely on probability..one can neither say that the cat is alive or dead, or that it exists as a Wave function. UNTIL!! (and I love this part) a determination is done by a person..that is to say lifting the box, collapsing the wave function and finding out if you have dinner for tonight. You can read up more about it as I'm sure I left out (or f**ked up) some stuff

But, this situation describes the overall interaction of consciousness on the physcial enviornment..you can't "look" at a particle without messing up it's position..Heisenberg will tell you more though 

So, what have we learned through this long and difficult to comprehend material? Well, that science is no longer a mere observer of the universe, but an active participator.

I think the world looks much brighter with it...or perhaps you would rather be a machine like the classical physicists once believed, hehe. 

oh, and +1 for making one of my posts look like Fayaz's 