Even if it's on Strava, it may not have happened ...

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Incredibly profound yet fantastically flawed
So a recent experiment might just call into question the fundamental axiom of cycling "If it isn't on Strava, it didn't happen". But not in the way you may think - it's not saying it could have happened even if it wasn't on Strava. It's actually saying that even if it's on Strava, depending on who is looking at it, it still may not have happened. Objective reality, it seems, may not exist after all. I find this fact comforting in 2020, yet now I'm concerned that when my wife asks me where I was all day and I tell her to just look at my Strava, she may not see it. Or worse, I may negate existence altogether just by telling her to do so. If that happens and the universe collapses and ruins your day, let me just say "my bad" now ...
 
I'm lucky my speeds are well described by newtonian mechanics.

you relativistic speed guys have quite the conundrum.
Always worried about time dilation and entanglement.

I always wondered where everyone disappeared to on Wildcat Wednesday 3 minutes after leaving the parking lot,
only to reappear when baited with grain based bevs... real multiverse stuff.
 
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Interesting this comes up today, as I was reading about entanglement and quantum leaps last night. My reading life is exciting AF.

Obvious statement: we aren't remotely close to understanding any of this which is why we don't understand it.

This is fine. If we actually understand all of it, the creators of the simulation will probably shut it down.
 
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Norm said:
Interesting this comes up today, as I was reading about entanglement and quantum leaps last night. My reading life is exciting AF.

Obvious statement: we aren't remotely close to understanding any of this which is why we don't understand it.

This is fine. If we actually understand all of it, the creators of the simulation will probably shut it down.
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Reading Hyperspace by Michio Kaku and this was the content of one of the chapters I read in the last few nights.
What book are you reading if you don’t mind my asking.
 
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Personally, I'm rooting for the failure of locality. I really like the idea that if I randomly snap my fingers here then some alien all the way on the other side of the universe shits his space slacks. In fact, that's why I randomly snap my fingers all day long. I'm really hoping I'm causing him serious professional embarrassment. Because I don't care - screw that guy ...
 
gcab said:
What book are you reading if you don’t mind my asking.
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Short History of Nearly Everything - total layman's book about all sorts of shit.

I think I used to have Hyperspace but I do not recall if I read it.
 
I was at Allaire the other day, rollin down by the Hog Bog, all of a sudden there was a rift in the matrix. Some helmetless clown came outta nowhere, right then and there he decided to crash right in front of me. As I adroitly stopped, he impacts my front wheel. He does a quick return to consciousness, shakes himself out, gets up and pedals away without a word. I just figgered another covidclown, next thing I know I physically wound up at the top of a drop I did not pedal to. Stopped for a sec, took some cleansing breaths, then all became clear, and I was able to continue on.

Got home and checked the Strava, and sure enough, I was straightline teleported to the top of the drop from a couple thousand feet away where the guy fell out of the sky into my bike.

TG the bike seems Ok. I’m still a mess.
 
Marty, I thought I was clear with my instructions. Only take 1 pill not 3 and always wear clean underwear.
Does this thread even exist?
 
are we playing the rhyming game or letter change game?
or both?

Trugs
 
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