You can see less that 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. Actually, because both are technically infinite, you can see and hear exactly 0%. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometers per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you”. The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star.
8/09/2012
The Human Condition
You can see less that 1% of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1% of the acoustic spectrum. Actually, because both are technically infinite, you can see and hear exactly 0%. As you read this, you are traveling at 220 kilometers per second across the galaxy. 90% of the cells in your body carry their own microbial DNA and are not “you”. The atoms in your body are 99.9999999999999999% empty space and none of them are the ones you were born with, but they all originated in the belly of a star.
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Life is nothing short of a miracle, every moment of everyday of our lives.
ReplyDeletethis is opinion...life may appear to be a miracle because of these observations, but it's just a perception.
Deleteis perception not a miracle
DeleteScience is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI'd be interested in some sources though.
Anyone else think of zelda? Nah okay nvm. Cool
ReplyDelete>>Actually, because both are technically infinite, you can see and hear exactly 0%.
ReplyDelete>>exactly 0%.
There lies your logical fallacy. It's not exactly 0%, it rather approaches 0%. Infinitely little isn't nothing.
At a talk with Deepak Chopra and Wayne Dyer, Deepak points out this observation: When you see an object, for example, an apple, you aren't seeing *it* but only the photons reflected off of it. They hit the cells in your eye and trigger a brain response which you identify as an apple. When you touch the apple, you are interacting with the electromagnetism that chains the electron to the atom, they create a field which pushes and pulls but never really touches anything, ever. The sound of the apple is your brain's representation of the vibrations of pressure as they push your ears' sensors around. When you smell the apple, it's just the particular way that your brain categorizes the chemical reaction of various cells in your olfactory tract, the apple does not have an actual distinct "smell" but smells different to everyone. Same with taste.
ReplyDeleteTo summarize: if you can see it, hear it, taste it, touch it, or smell it, it isn't real.
Very interesting, but lets now make the same comparison not with an apple but with a bunch of magic mushrooms. The moment when you can tell the mushroom is real is after you eat it and it goes into your bloodstream and your brain. Now, that's when you know it's real! Or so I feel everytime Im taking them.
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