The Mandela Effect

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Some ideas are brain boggling

It's not only scientific ideas. If someone had told me 20 years ago that I would live to see a black man in the White House, my response: "Get the [deleted] outa here."

Was actually listening to the radio in my car today ... on CBC, not a bad station, they were interviewing a guy who believes that what he calls "curiosity driven research" is under attack, particularly from the political right, and particularly in the US. Creating a climate of anti-intellectualism benefits big business, particularly when it involves "climate change denial." Millions of Americans are prepared to believe in GOD, creationism, zombies, aliens a la Hollywood, sasquatches, and, yes Dotti, Loch Ness Monsters. These same folks, most of them living south of the Mason-Dixon Line and other Bible Belt locations dismiss serious climate research and warnings from the IPCC as "a load of balls."

I believe it was Shakespeare's Caesar who said of Cassius: "he thinks too much; such men are dangerous." ... or something like that. Maybe we are becoming a bit like extreme Islamists, whose greatest fear is a girl with a book.

[Margaret Pilkington]

I bought myself Bill Bryson's A Short History of Almost Everything.
It isn't bedtime reading...it mashes my brains(not hard, I know)...,..but it does make me think, but the concepts are far too big for my little brain to handle.
This does not stop me reading it......and pondering over the things that it postulates.
The thing that boggles my brain the most is that energy never dissipates.
My brain is also boggled by stuff about the universe.......the numbers involved are too big for me to grasp.

[Eric]

Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

I bought myself Bill Bryson's A Short History of Almost Everything.
It isn't bedtime reading...it mashes my brains(not hard, I know)...,..but it does make me think, but the concepts are far too big for my little brain to handle.
This does not stop me reading it......and pondering over the things that it postulates.
The thing that boggles my brain the most is that energy never dissipates.
My brain is also boggled by stuff about the universe.......the numbers involved are too big for me to grasp.

You could always try this:

[Barrie Yates]

Does the light go out when you close the refrigerator door? If it does, where does the light go?

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Does the light go out when you close the refrigerator door?

That's like asking what came before the Big Bang.

The only way you'll find out is if you drill a hole through the fridge door but don't let littlepom see you do it.

If you're still alive afterwards let us know the answer.

[Eric]

Schodinger's Cats:

[Less]

Yes the light does go out when the door is shut. My brother experimented with our fridge when I was about 4, he took all the food out, then the trays, then pushed me in and shut the door!

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS! (pick an old one up from a tip somewhere that way your mum won't give you a clout for leaving muddy footprints on the fridge floor).

[Gordon Booth]

Originally Posted by Eric

Schodinger's Cats:

It's easier to drill a hole through the fridge door.

[Less]

Originally Posted by Less

Yes the light does go out when the door is shut. My brother experimented with our fridge when I was about 4, he took all the food out, then the trays, then pushed me in and shut the door!

DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME KIDS! (pick an old one up from a tip somewhere that way your mum won't give you a clout for leaving muddy footprints on the fridge floor).

Is this what you mean by "curiosity driven research" Eric?

[Margaret Pilkington]

Originally Posted by Eric

You could always try this:

Thank you Eric......I like that. I really like it.
My brain is still boggled by the numbers but at least I have smile on my chops!

[dotti34]

So, Eric, it won’t surprise you to know that his nibs who is sure there is a Loch Ness Monster does not believe that there is any global warming or climate change. I think this is because ‘his’ political party aren’t that hot about it….pardon the pun, and the ones he thinks I support are - anything for a good argument.

Or could it be that he doesn't want to believe.....

[Margaret Pilkington]

dotti, I was taught that just because you believe something does not make it true......I am sitting on e fence here and the splinters in my bum are going to take a lot of getting out(bad eyesight, poor mirror, poor ability as a contortionist)