Observations and inanities by a second-shift assistant supervisor in the Puppy-Grinding division of the Evil Atheist Conspiracy® (our motto: "Sure it's cruel, but think of the jobs!"), your host, Brent Rasmussen.
"It is a proven scientific fact."
I really gotta wonder if this is a joke:
Faith Of Britain Day is a day that focuses all of the positive energy in the country towards achieving our hopes and aspirations. For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and healers will act as a channel for the positive thoughts of the entire country.
Why March 6th at 11.00am?
March 6th has been chosen as Faith of Britain Day because March is a time of seeing light emerging from the darkness of Winter, therefore emphasising hope in an unsure world. Numerologically this date is symbolic because the 3rd month, the 6th day and the 9th year are all multiples of 3 which is about balance - which is what we strive to achieve as humans. The time, 11.00am is a master number, or a powerful 2 (1 + 1) which is the duality of the inner and outer self, encouraging us to look within to find solutions.
The woo just keeps getting better. Here's another passage that I particularly loved:
Why will this work?
It is a proven scientific fact that thinking about something often causes it to happen. Some call this quantum physics. Others simply call it "faith." We ask that you open your mind to joining in with a unique psychic force that will change our lives through the power of thought.
Yeah, a proven scientific fact. Because they said so. And they used the word "quantum."
Jim Downey
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Quantum doesn't mean whatever you want it to
One of the things that's been really interesting about actually learning some quantum mechanics is seeing how horribly it gets misused by people. Yeah there's some goofy implications of parts of the theory where you just have to trust the math where it goes. But all that goofiness is on scales we'll never deal with. One of our homework problems was to calculate tunneling probabilities for an electron, proton and carbon atom. Just the carbon atom had a miniscule probability, anything larger and you can pretty much ignore all quantum effects.
On the other hand, I do kind of wish quantum mechanics did imply that thinking about something would make it happen. That would mean my experimental and theoretical results would be a lot more likely to match up and make my PhD a lot easier.
Maybe it does...
Maybe quantum mechanics will allow the changing of reality if there is a critical mass? If we can get a couple of billion folks to believe something maybe that will make it happen.
Or just do what most people do... make stuff up.
I heard 79.8% of statistics are fabricated on the spot.
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I love numbers
I'm fascinated by primes, squares, perfect numbers, Pascal's triangle, all that good number theory stuff. But at the end of the day, numbers are still mostly used for balancing my check book.