Wednesday 19 January 2011

Fact or Fiction

DISCLAIMER: This post may contain traces of speculation which may of may not be caused by the fact that it will be tomorrow in less than an hour. Accept nothing, trust no one.

Hi. Imagine this scenario: There are two people, A and B. A has a box with a mouse in it, and places a cat in the box with it, then closes the box. The mouse has poison on its fur, so if the cat manages to eat it, it'll die. If the mouse is evasive enough, they'll both live.
After an hour or so A looks in the box and tells B both the cat and the mouse are alive. B, relieved, leaves the room and the scene. Why is B relieved? Because, when the box was closed, every possible thing that could happen inside that box happened, until proven otherwise. In other words, the cat and mouse were both dead and alive.
This experiment is also known as Schrödinger's Cat. (Though it's a bit different and it involved radioactive matter and other science.)

And now for something completely different: The Boy Who Left.
I am, of course, talking about Noah.
I think that Noah is a pretty cool guy. He pursues the truth and doesn't afraid of anything. It's admirable, really.

But here's the catch: there seem to be two versions of "truth."

  1. Everything is the truth until proven otherwise, also known as Schrödinger's Cat. Examples are God, the Big Bang, and everything with "theory" affixed. (Hey, I managed to post about affixes.)
  2. Nothing exists until proven otherwise. I'll call this "realism" because I don't know the correct name for it, if there even is one. Examples are the fact that the Earth is spherical and the existence of atoms.
So, ultimately there are still different paths to be taken if you're searching for something that's absolute. I wonder if both will lead to the same truth. Y'know, I actually really want to know. Curiosity kills cats, though.

So. Bye, Noah! See you around!

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