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But adherents would not budge; this is what I mean by there being a ''social'' conundrum. --[[User:Chemoelectric|Chemoelectric]] ([[User talk:Chemoelectric|talk]]) 14:03, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
=== My own little theorem ===
It may amuse you to know that I reached an unsettling conclusion about the nature of the universe around a decade ago.
I realised that as every probability wave collapses into reality, it reaches back into history and changes the past...
When I first thought of this I felt sick to the pit of my stomach, didn't want it to be true, but knew deep down it was.
Taken to the extreme, I could be sat in the garden of an evening, and a stray photon from one of those galaxies fifteen
billion light years away land unnoticed on my retina. I have, right now, unwittingly and simply by being there, changed
something (quite small) on that galaxy not only 15 billion light years away but also 15 billion years ago! If that all
sounds completely ludicrous, that's because it is, and it still makes me feel a little queasy even to this day. Another
way of thinking about it is this: suppose that photon were a mini shrodinger's cat, that entire galaxy has evolved over
all this time based on the premise that little kitten is both alive and dead at the same time. It makes absolutely no
difference if I, or the observer effect, now suddenly declare Tiddles as one or the other, even after all this time.
Imagine being a passenger on board that photon, your journey would have taken precisely 0s, and from that perspective
there would be nothing unusual at all about something "now" changing something "15 billion years ago". In fact, no
probability wave can or has ever done anything other than depart and arrive simultaneously, and that is what forms the
pervasive phenomenon we like to call "cause and effect". There could be no such thing were the universe fundamentally
just a vast collection of disparate probability waves, instead each and every one unfalteringly ties the future to the
past, and were that not so both would just be the same blurry mess. Since my little theory guarantees absolutely ZERO
consequences, it would be rather difficult to prove one way or the other. As Patricia Hodge/Penny in Miranda might say,
"Such fun". --[[User:Petelomax|Petelomax]] ([[User talk:Petelomax|talk]]) 15:14, 1 June 2023 (UTC)
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