Things to think about that blow your mind.

[Little Woodsman]

You want stuff that will blow your mind? This made actual mini explosions go off in my head. You have been warned.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c9dc71def0f9a011eed5fe1efa99547d/tumblr_mkr9fogv441r6embzo1_500.png
All the cartoon theories like this one rock my world. Except for the dumb ones.

WHOA!!!

Where did you find that freaky little tidbit of mindblowing info?

I just want to know.

Someone had posted that image on Facebook. That's where I first saw it at least. It's posted multiple times on tumblr.

That is actually rather mind-blowing. I was supervised, I expected to come into this thread expecting the kind of crap that the OP had. Though I bet you there is at least one episode that disproves this theory.

I'm sure there is an episode that tells how Frankie arrived at the house or shows her parents or something like that. I'm using that as an excuse to watch Foster's again.

Be sure to keep me updated. Especially if it leaves it open to interpretation.

Frankie's childhood is referenced multiple times in the series. For example

Spoiler: spoiler

She at one time opened the door to the room where the Scribbles are kept, and the whole house had to move into the stables for that winter.
She also talks about how when she was a little girl she could never get enough of Madame Foster's special cookies

I noticed the similarity in the way that Frankie & Madame Foster dress right away when I started watching the show,
but I thought it was more a thing of showing how cool Madame Foster was when she was young, & how cool Frankie will be when she gets old. Like in Castle in the Sky when you see the picture of young Ma Dolza in her cabin, and she looks *just* *like* Sheeta.

 

[Keoul]

I know what you mean, but I think you might misunderstand the concept.
It's not, that nobody observing something (or someone actually observing something), does change what is happening. It's the question: "how can we be sure nothing is changing while we are not observing?"
Since we did not observe, we can't be sure.

And well, to be nitpicking, we can actually create experiments to proof, that observing something can change the outcome!
This is due to the fact, that we need at least some sort of energy(for example a single photon) to observe something. This energy will influence the "thing happening".

Maybe not the best video, but short and on the point: Edit: damn didn't see it was posted before... sorry^^

I understand, I've seen that video before.

All it seemed to prove to me is that if a particle is fired through slits, our observation may affect the results. Not stationary particles or anything else. Not to mention we know nothing of how that experiment of conducted, how close was the camera? was it the camera's observation that altered the result? if that's the case (which I bet is true) then it's not human observation but observation in general or another factor affecting the test.

 

[knight steel]

There is no such thing as the universal correct Morality.
Morality is Manmade it is an ideology and not an innate part of nature.
Therefore our morality is created through our experiences and perceptions.
This makes it subjective to each person and society.
What does this mean,it means that because it subjective,
there is no right or wrong moral code,because we
determine good and bad through morality the fact
that there is no correct one means,their is no such thing as good and evil.
A murder/rapist/thief is no more wrong in his actions as you are in yours.
Sleep tight ^_^

 

[MeChaNiZ3D]

The tree making a sound and things changing when not observed only to change back when observed, along with my own mindf***, the situation wherein everyone else is an actor and I'm the first sentient robot undergoing testing in a fake world, or that the world only exists as far as I can see in any direction and is generated as I walk, or that we are all digitally constructed in a macro race's version of SimCity, basically come from rejecting that you can assume that things happen or continue to happen as an extension of the known world.

 

[Risingblade]

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood!

But woodchucks don't chuck wood!

OT: nothing really , i'm not knowledgable enough in ANYTHING to have my mind blown . I'm dumb as bricks .

A woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could if a woodchuck could chuck wood

 

[Kreett]

The Great Attractor, something out there in the infinity that is space that is so large it's pulling all of everything towards it...

 

[Pinkamena]

Anything to do with quantum physics. Or as my physics teacher called it, MAGIC.

I study Quantum Physics and I can confirm that it is indeed magic. Or as close to it as we can come.

 

[Ljs1121]

The thought that regardless of how important and urgent things may seem to me, in the end I'm just going to be conscious for a microscopic sliver of time, living on a tiny dot on the farthest arm of an unimpressive galaxy floating throughout the universe and eventually wind up permanently dead.

The fact that every person you've ever met, no, ever seen, and billions of other people besides on the planet have dreams, ideas, lives and wants needs and fears besides yours. Every single person.

Also, this. Especially when I'm driving to school or what-not and I realize that every person at that 4-way intersection has somewhere important to be at that time, someone they need to see or something they need to do.

 

[Arakasi]

You want stuff that will blow your mind? This made actual mini explosions go off in my head. You have been warned.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/c9dc71def0f9a011eed5fe1efa99547d/tumblr_mkr9fogv441r6embzo1_500.png
All the cartoon theories like this one rock my world. Except for the dumb ones.

WHOA!!!

Where did you find that freaky little tidbit of mindblowing info?

I just want to know.

Someone had posted that image on Facebook. That's where I first saw it at least. It's posted multiple times on tumblr.

That is actually rather mind-blowing. I was supervised, I expected to come into this thread expecting the kind of crap that the OP had. Though I bet you there is at least one episode that disproves this theory.

I'm sure there is an episode that tells how Frankie arrived at the house or shows her parents or something like that. I'm using that as an excuse to watch Foster's again.

Be sure to keep me updated. Especially if it leaves it open to interpretation.

Frankie's childhood is referenced multiple times in the series. For example

Spoiler: spoiler

She at one time opened the door to the room where the Scribbles are kept, and the whole house had to move into the stables for that winter.
She also talks about how when she was a little girl she could never get enough of Madame Foster's special cookies

I noticed the similarity in the way that Frankie & Madame Foster dress right away when I started watching the show,
but I thought it was more a thing of showing how cool Madame Foster was when she was young, & how cool Frankie will be when she gets old. Like in Castle in the Sky when you see the picture of young Ma Dolza in her cabin, and she looks *just* *like* Sheeta.

I'm not sure that is necessarily excludes the possibility. She could have been imagined with those memories in place, perhaps Madame Foster always had imagined Frankie there and one day she came to be real, and she didn't notice the difference. That could explain the reason why she remembers her childhood.

Though whilst it is nice to be able to be idealistic about the level of thought the writers put into the show, I highly doubt this possibility occurred to them, let alone that they acted on it. It's a shame really. Unless of course there are hidden hints.

 

[Pinkamena]

There is no such thing as the universal correct Morality.
Morality is Manmade it is an ideology and not an innate part of nature.
Therefore our morality is created through our experiences and perceptions.
This makes it subjective to each person and society.
What does this mean,it means that because it subjective,
there is no right or wrong moral code,because we
determine good and bad through morality the fact
that there is no correct one means,their is no such thing as good and evil.
A murder/rapist/thief is no more wrong in his actions as you are in yours.
Sleep tight ^_^

In other news: Fire is hot, and bears still shit in the woods.
Of course nothing is "wrong" by default, do you really think anyone believe that?

 

[Goofguy]

Pretty unoriginal but the vastness of the known universe. We get so caught up in the little things, we fail to realize our individual existence is but a speck in time within the universe. It makes all those international conflicts and wars seem so friggin petty when there's so much more out there.

 

[piinyouri]

Our ever expanding knowledge of the structure of the universe.
Last I heard, they had found if you 'zoom out' enough, galaxies form clusters that look like something you'd see in a microscope.
My dad, an old ex-hippy, once said "The entire universe could be contained within a drop of dew on a leaf."
I do not think that is silly as I once did.

 

[Sir Thomas Sean Connery]

This thing:

Scale of the Universe

It's not a logic exercise or some kind of existential thing.

It's just a bar that allows you to zoom from the tiniest known size to the largest.

Every time I go to it and start at the tiniest and zoom out at a slow speed, it blows my mind.

Just the sheer size of the universe is so utterly incomprehensible. It simply CANNOT be comprehended by human minds.

The music is fantastic too.

Our ever expanding knowledge of the structure of the universe.
Last I heard, they had found if you 'zoom out' enough, galaxies form clusters that look like something you'd see in a microscope.
My dad, an old ex-hippy, once said "The entire universe could be contained within a drop of dew on a leaf."
I do not think that is silly as I once did.

Pretty unoriginal but the vastness of the known universe. We get so caught up in the little things, we fail to realize our individual existence is but a speck in time within the universe. It makes all those international conflicts and wars seem so friggin petty when there's so much more out there.

I do believe I have been ninja'd rather brutally.

snop

Of course.

It's a highly common theistic argument and something I've heard from many people who aren't even religious.

 

[Wyes]

Matter is fundamentally made up of particles that we consider mathematical points. That is to say they have no dimensions. The amount of space they take up is zero, both in width, length, and depth.

Say what now? All particles are described by a wavefunction, which is decidedly continuous, so all particles have some kind of 'spread'. While this does mess with the idea of dimensions a little, you could still consider say, the half-maximum width of the peak of the wavefunction to be the width of the particle. It's bit of a mess, I guess. Regardless, we don't consider true 'point particles' to be a physical thing.

Of course nothing is "wrong" by default, do you really think anyone believe that?

Yes, people do actually believe that. Moral absolutism is a thing, and most religions are based on it.



Anyway, as for my own;

You've probably heard that because the digits enumerating the value of pi never repeat, they contain an infinite amount of information, as they contain every possible combination of all numbers. This means pi is a transcendental number.
Another transcendental number is e [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28mathematical_constant%29], which has the same property.
Similarly, the product of pi and e is also a transcendental number (or so I assume, it seems obvious but it may not be strictly true). What this means is all the information in the universe is contained in pie.

Otherwise, physics is magic. Magic we understand, but magic. To steal something from Feynman - we wiggle these pieces of copper over here, and something else moves way over there. Magic.

 

[TheBlueShotgun0]

What's always blown my mind is that, because light and sound have a finite speed, we observe everything after it happens.

Yes, the stars we see in the sky are actually images from several thousand years ago as was already mentioned. But let's take this a step further. Say someone sitting next to you says something. Because sound doesn't travel instantaneously, there is a brief delay between them speaking and you hearing in. The same applies to light and sight. If someone waves at you, you only see it after a brief delay. Basically, our perception lags behind reality.

It's not revolutionary or calls our very existence into question, but it's food for thought.

 

[AJvsRonin]

To me the "Monty-Hall problem" has always blown me away, not so much now that I get it but that pretty much every person (including myself) instinctively thinks it's wrong when they first see it.

I use it as a good demonstrator to somebody that "You don't understand maths/probability anywhere near as well as you think you do, and maybe before you go talking shit against scientists maybe you should learn a little."

I've had people get really angry with me when I've told them and they flat out call me a liar. Funny really.

 

[Dethenger]

It's the little things for me. Thinking about the nature of the universe and whatnot (in other words, most of the things in this thread) doesn't really do it because it's interesting, but also too complicated to be a mind blow: Your mind has to work through it. By my way of thinking, there has to be a sort of blunt, immediate, explosive comprehension aspect for a realization to be considered a "mind blow."

Example: I looked at the moon once and it occurred to me, "Holy shit, that's actually there. Like, people have walked on it." And I thought that was fucking amazing.

 

[Ambitiousmould]

I once heard a quote (from a game I think, but I can't remember) that went "...it would be like describing colour to a creature with no eyes".
Go on, I dare you. In words, describe blue.

I also once spent ages thinking about the multiverse thing with some friends, and we now don't believe it at all, because of this conclusion (which is probably full of errors and flaws, because I'm not a physicist and often times as thick as two short planks):

"If there are infinite universes for infinite possibilities, then in one of those universes someone will have found a way to visit our universe." said a friend.
"but what if our universe is one that no universe travellers have visited?" said another friend.
"well" said I, my brain straining and grinding to come up with a plausible response, "there has to be a universe in which they have visited every other universe, so there can't be one that no one has visited, so there aren't infinite universes! Ha!"
"What if there aren't infinite, just several?"
"Fuck you, that's what."

I appreciate that I may have flawed logic here, but oh well.

 

[uzo]

Darth Vader is Luke's father.
MIND=BLOWN


4 8 15 16 23 42
MIND=BLOWN


I don't mean to sound pretentious, but silly 'tree falls in a forest - BUT WHO IS PHONE?!' discussions = NOT MIND BLOWN.

 

[Wyes]

"If there are infinite universes for infinite possibilities, then in one of those universes someone will have found a way to visit our universe." said a friend.
"but what if our universe is one that no universe travellers have visited?" said another friend.
"well" said I, my brain straining and grinding to come up with a plausible response, "there has to be a universe in which they have visited every other universe, so there can't be one that no one has visited, so there aren't infinite universes! Ha!"
"What if there aren't infinite, just several?"
"Fuck you, that's what."

I appreciate that I may have flawed logic here, but oh well.

If there are multiverses, then it may be that one constant in all of them is the inability to travel to another universe. Alternatively, maybe they have visited our universe and we just don't know it. I'd say if the theory is true, the first is more likely.