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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 9, 2011 at 1:33am

I exist.

Okay, maybe too short. I mean that I am nothing but a collection of atoms in interplay with four forces and mostly empty space, no magic added anywhere, but I fucking exist nevertheless in a world full of other creatures that exists around me.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 9, 2011 at 10:08am

For me, the more interesting corollary is that someday in the distant future, nothing will exist. So, God, what was the point?

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 9, 2011 at 10:52am

I have neither a God to ask about a point, nor a point to ask a God about and neither do I know that what you know about the distant future.

(But I find it wonderful that you exist too.)

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Permalink Reply by Anthony Sparks on January 6, 2012 at 1:27am

That opinion wouldn't go over to well with solipsism. 

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Permalink Reply by Dylan Martin on December 9, 2011 at 1:43am

I survived a bike accident which SHOULD HAVE killed me when I was 8. I was struck by a car, sent a good 30 meters, and landed flat on my head. I didn't have a scratch anywhere else on my body. I "just" have damage to the frontal lobe of my brain, I lost a great portion of my short term memory and I was in a 3 month coma.

The doctors said I probably wouldn't come out of my coma. When I came to; I pulled my own tracheotomy out for christ's sake. The doctors then said I'd never walk again; I proved them wrong... that was 20 years ago.

That's pretty damn interesting, if you ask me...

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Permalink Reply by Eoganacht on December 9, 2011 at 5:57am

That's pretty awesome.

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Permalink Reply by Albert Bakker on December 9, 2011 at 10:53am

Indeed it is.

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Permalink Reply by Dustin on December 9, 2011 at 5:05pm

A miracle!!!

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Permalink Reply by Isaac on December 9, 2011 at 4:24am

Schrodingers Equation. Seriously though. I can't say that I know that much on how to apply it yet, but it is pretty damn amazing what can be done with that thing.

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Permalink Reply by Unseen on December 9, 2011 at 2:10pm

I tried to read about it and my head exploded. I'm a science fan, not a scientist. What exactly, in layman's terms, can be done with it?

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Permalink Reply by Isaac on December 9, 2011 at 7:18pm

One example is how the Schrodinger equation can describe the hydrogen atom. Also, results from solutions to the Schrodinger equation show that properties of a particle, such as momentum or energy, can only have specific values, which is extremely different from how our intuitions about how the world works are. This is only scratching the surface.

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Permalink Reply by Diane on December 9, 2011 at 6:05am

Quasars.  They are so far away and moving so quickly that by the time the light reached us and we noticed them they may have ceased to exist for more time that we can comprehend.

And mitochondria.  

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