I'm about to blow your mind.

Today I want to share a couple videos with you. They are both fascinating, but in very different ways. The first is a short 10-minute video which gives the clearest explanation I’ve seen of the double-slit experiment and why it is such an incredible mind-bender.

The results are real. They led to the field of quantum mechanics and the equations that allow us to build real things in the real world that improve our real lives in real and powerful ways.

But what on earth is happening in the experiment? It looks decidedly… unreal. What does it mean about the nature of reality? Check it out. I’ll wait here.

The second video is longer, much, much wilder, and endlessly fascinating. I don’t want to spoil your experience by even saying much about it. I will say that this video is chock-full ideas about the nature of our universe that I don’t believe.

On the other hand, the more I delve into our current “understanding” of the nature of this universe, the more I see that we hardly understand anything at all. That’s why I refuse to “slam the door” on weird ideas.

I don’t accept them. I don’t reject them. I consider them and hope these alternate frameworks and perspectives might help us one day figure out what this reality actually is.

And I’ll guarantee you this: Once we finally “figure it all out”, the answers will be just as unfathomable and bizarre to us today as Einstein’s general relativity or modern quantum mechanics would have been to Pharoah.

I’d love to hear what all y’all think about these videos. Reply or comment as ye see fit. Enjoy!

Naturally,

Adam

PS: Near the end of the longer video, a crazy idea is floated that lends credence to my intuition that life “solves” the entropy problem. You can find those musings here. This idea seems bizarre unlikely, but who knows, right?