CORRECTION: A simple way to test or prove if physical reality exists... life & death.

CORRECTION: there = their

Right monte but you fail to recognize that the people in this video are all highly qualified and respected scientists in their own fields as well...

If you were to go up to them and tell them they're wrong, they would probably punch you in the face as well. Then again, they likely wouldn't since they seem like decent human beings.

You are even more incorrect on the basis that in the video, the scientist makes the exact argument you just made and then proves you wrong. This is a philosophical question that science has just answered (or is in the process of answering), you have it the other way around.

It basically suggests that you have all the power within you. Negativity is simply a product of not mastering this concept.

And I was going through some troubles with my university situation if you happened to read my post from a while back. I basically let that go but having went through that I now have the ability to see how it was essentially all my fault- in the moment -for allowing my environment to interpret how I felt, rather than manipulating my own environment to my liking... similar to what this video implies.

And I'm not having financial issues, in fact I don't care about money. It was just an analogy, it's the idea behind it I was trying to get across.

If I get upset about my university situation but laugh at someone who cries over $5 being taken from them; then I am completely hypocritical. It's "believing" in "content" that is the problem. Because all content is essentially the same at the quantum level... and therefore nothing has value unless you give it a superficial, false value.

Hey jproduct,

I am an actual physics graduate student in theoretical physics and what Monte says is true.

Firstly, Quantum Mechanics isn't a complete theory of reality, it is correct up to a length scale (typically up to the 1 Angstrom is what Quantum Mechanics can say about reality).

After that you have to use Quantum Electrodynamics, Electroweak theory, and other varieties to understand 10^-15 m behavior (What happens inside the proton and such). After that, you have to develop a new theory because of the high energies (most theories which aren't renormaziable :(, so you have a length scale to consider!).

Most of what this video typically gives an interpretation on calculation done in Quantum Mechanics, and I guess this is a big part of Quantum Mechanics, the interpretations of certain calculation, but this is just an interpretation, it doesn't make such notions true.

In the introduction and ending of Griffths Quantum Mechanics text he discusses some of the philosophical interpretation on Quantum Mechanics (There is the "realist" and "orthodox" physicists interpretation.) The people in this video fell into the latter category, but this doesn't make the right per se.

Et al: No one really understands Quantum Mechanics.

even if we do create our own realities or whatever the heck that video was about, who cares?

it seems real, it feels real. that's enough for me. to quote a wise man by the name of Joel Bauer, "looks like crap, it IS crap!"

It's almost theraputic in a sense. Let's say a woman lost her husband 5 years ago and comes to you, still in distress.

Situations that you yourself would find absurd, happen all the time.

However, situations that you find distressing, other may find as laughable.

Therefore it's completely hypocritical.

An example related to this game is when noobs cry on 0 tables for getting fucked over, and good players find this amusing.

Yet on a 5k, they may get mad if the same thing happens...

The problem with people is when they observe themselves as an individual, and therefore gain an ego. They may argue that a 5k is more important than a 0. That the noobs don't know anything, etc. But if 1 million people played this game, the top players would say the same about you.

It's breaking that barrier, realizing that the absolute truth is that we are all connected. If you yell at someone, you are actually yelling at your own self. You are composed of things from the earth which is what other humans are composed of. You are literally yelling at the earth, which is an extension, or projection, of your own self according to this video.

OR you could just argue that we're all experiencing LIFE and we should just let ppl have fun without arguing or making life hard for others, without bringing quantum physics into it. You seem to be using this as a explanation to why you've never seen the world from outside of your own bubble/viewpoint, similar to people finding jesus or something. Just be glad that the video broadened your mind, dont dwell on it too much dude.

great point

If theres one thing i learned from 2 years of physical/quantum chemistry, its that no one really knows what they're talking about