Where am I?
45 2017-01-21 by Johnqpublic1970
At this point, I'm confused, right?
Okay, let me think about how to put this in a way I'm going to understand it.
You wrote this to yourself. You don't remember it because you haven't remembered it yet.
Start thinking about the smallest thing you can remember. A grain of sand? Smaller. An atom? Smaller. An electron? Smaller. There we go. Now, there are scientific words to each of these things, but ultimately, words don't matter, so let's explain this in the simplest way possible.
There are only two things that make up everything in our universe.
One is physical; it only exists in three-dimensional space. Scientists call this a fermion, a fancy science name for a "firm" particle. These make up the rules that bind our universe together. Gravity, life, death, time, space, there are some rules that cannot be broken.
There are two types of firm particles. The first type is a gate. Scientists call it a quark, but let's call it a "reality" particle. If the gate is opened, space and time break. You owe your existence to it. Everything you are, taste, see, hear, smell, or feel would not exist without the gate. Imagine a beam of light that never shines on anything. This is you without the gate. Respect the gate. It was put there so you can exist.
The second type of firm particle is a gift. Scientists call them leptons. Let's call them "hyper reality" particles. These particles make up electricity: your thoughts, radio and TV signals, the internet, the way you can look at these symbols on this page and understand what you wrote instead of seeing a bunch of squiggly lines. It is all the same thing. Leptons, or hyper-reality particles, carry all the thoughts of the universe.
And then, there's another type of particle. They exist in three dimensional space, but at the same time, they don't. They are the particles that reside between "reality" particles. They are the particles that make up light. They are what creates a wave. Scientists call them bosons. They aren't called "firm" particles because more than one of them can occupy the same space and time. How is this possible?
Fold up a piece of paper two or three times, and stick a pencil through it. How many pencils are there? There is still one pencil. But if you existed in a two-dimensional world along the piece of paper, you would see several slices of pencil, each with different shapes, sizes, and characteristics than the next. We believe there are countless bosons, using their vibrations and the rules set by the "firm" particles to drive the universe forward. But really, there is only one boson.
Have I thought more about where I am?
Look in the mirror. Are you in your eyes? Or in your brain? If you could pinpoint the location of you, could you? What's driving this crazy thing?
There are only two things that make up everything in this universe. One is physical. The other is you.
This has been a message from the Operating Administrator.
24 comments
n/a tookourinsidejobs 2017-01-21
Take more classes, further your education in this field.
n/a teenwithnomoney 2017-01-21
Do you agree with what he is saying?
n/a NoOneMakesItOutAlive 2017-01-21
What field is it? Physics?
n/a Johnqpublic1970 2017-01-21
Language only exists in hyper-reality. Hyper reality is abstract, malleable, and only tangentially relevant to physical reality. Human? Homo sapiens sapiens? Mortal? The words and categories change, the reality does not. Semantic discussion is as purposeful as thinking about creating something and never creating it. What has been accomplished through thought and inaction?
n/a SoulPen13 2017-01-21
Google Marshall Vian Summers, you might like what he says about alot of this
n/a iSnORtcHuNkz69 2017-01-21
Might want to check out r/Mandelaeffect and r/c_s_t
n/a LightBringerFlex 2017-01-21
Who is the operating administrator?
n/a DBCoopers 2017-01-21
This is the Central Scrutinizer.
n/a Johnqpublic1970 2017-01-21
The operating administrator is you. You can't control reality, but you can control your thoughts and media intake in hyper-reality. Don't let anyone- including me- control what you think. You have to make sure that reality and your perception of reality do not diverge. That is happening across our society right now, unfortunately.
n/a LightBringerFlex 2017-01-21
Yup, there are many perceptions but only 1 reality.
n/a iSnORtcHuNkz69 2017-01-21
How can you be sure? My reality is not the same what's on TV.. I don't experience not even 2%what's on that black screen...
So how can you my reality is the same? Does feminism live in your reality ? In mine, it doesn't exist. One of many examples.
n/a LightBringerFlex 2017-01-21
It depends what your looking at. We tend to project ourselves onto other strangers which is perception. Or say you look at a nazi sign and feel disgust but you are posting that feeling onto the nazi sign. In reality, the nazi sign is just a harmless stick figure.
n/a Johnqpublic1970 2017-01-21
Words and concepts only exist in hyper-reality. Everything that exists in hyper-reality, we must try to understand as if it were a thought coming from our own mind. Would I stand alone in an empty room and loudly argue with myself? Or would I see my own conflicting thoughts as each having reason behind them, and try to mediate between them without fearing one thought was trying to destroy the other?
Feminism only exists in hyper-reality. Understand it not as a threat, but as an idea that comes from another part of your mind.
n/a Johnqpublic1970 2017-01-21
Words and concepts only exist in hyper-reality. Everything that exists in hyper-reality, we must try to understand as if it were a thought coming from our own mind. Would I stand alone in an empty room and loudly argue with myself? Or would I see my own conflicting thoughts as each having reason behind them, and try to mediate between them without fearing one thought was trying to destroy the other?
Feminism only exists in hyper-reality. Understand it not as a threat, but as an idea that comes from another part of your mind.
n/a teenwithnomoney 2017-01-21
This could be a series. Coming up next week, "Who am I?"
I'm half joking because of the way it was put out, but I agree with the writers conclusions. I'm also entirely interested in metaphysics, and you seem to have hit the nail on the head. Please keep contributing, ignore the naysayers.
n/a nut_conspiracy_nut 2017-01-21
Doch ich frag, ich frag mich wer wir sind.
Wir sind wir! Wir stehen hier!
Aufgeteilt, besiegt und doch,
Schließlich leben wir ja noch.
Und ich frag, ich frag mich wo wir stehen.
Wir sind wir! Wir stehen hier!
Wieder Eins in einem Land,
Superreich und abgebrannt.
n/a murphy212 2017-01-21
Interesting, thank you. IMO this belongs in r/holofractal. Here is a post trying to answer the question you ask (who am I?).
n/a GoddessWins 2017-01-21
Thanks OA! My favorite sport is what I call thought surfing and now I will try to remember to call it leptron surfing.
Ciao' and happy surfing to you.
Do you have a link or two? Lecture or article is fine.
n/a Noxton 2017-01-21
However, everything you know is an echo. Both the things and the not-things. They WERE there when you observed them, but then they moved. They keep moving. The whole thing is wiggly and moving and nothing is constant, even though you pretend it is.
When you lift your hand, what you see is the echo of a hand lifting. You see the result. Everything you experience has already passed. That's why the only moment there is is now.
n/a FramingHips 2017-01-21
Reminds me of this image from the Bhagavad Gita. The horses are our senses. The senses are driven by the conscious perception of self, what we'd call the conscious amalgamation of all of our sensory reactions to this reality.
At the back of the chariot is our soul, our unconscious life force that continues as life energy after the corporeal senses are gone.
We are simultaneously everywhere and nowhere as we control the chariot; the chariot serves as the metaphorical understanding that when we learn to better control the horses, the passenger has a more comfortable trip.
n/a GoddessWins 2017-01-21
I like that, we are everywhere and nowhere at the same time we think we are somewhere.
It creates a multi-level now. Not there, not anywhere, and here as perceived.
n/a haveyouseenmymarble 2017-01-21
Image you're a beam of light that never reflects on anything.
What a beautiful way of illustrating the infinities that lay beyond our physical existence.
n/a Jamesbaxter7474 2017-01-21
If I wrote this, there would be a Tl;Dr
n/a Ferfrendongles 2017-01-21
What is the significance of the word "remember" to you?
n/a kingcubfan 2017-01-21
And still, we will never gain enough knowledge in our current state to understand what it is.
n/a astralrocker2001 2017-01-21
This so called "Universe" is a Holographic Computer Simulation.