Yesterday was ok, the whisky bottle is diverting enough, I've passed off the difficult bit to a 3D person as it's simple for them to do. Now, I am a little bored, although there's plenty work on the horizon. the company loved our test thing so looks like we've secured that job, hopefully. Just popped off home. Settled in to read my book, and I'm very impressed with the ground it is now covering, only trouble is I'm approaching the end and just want it to continue. One of the chapters last night was fucking excellent. He was talking about the multiverse theory (infinite universes with varying forces to account for the fact that our universe appears to be made so right for life). He then goes in to some of the very odd consequences that the multiverse theory throws up. Basically, if there's an infinite ensemble of universes then there's universes that have unfolded in much the same way as ours has, and from that you can say there's lots of universes with 'me' in them, some might be slightly different but there will be many/infinite amounts that will contain me as infinite amount of universes means an infinite amount of possibilities. This then leads to a vast array of universes containing civilisations with the ability to simulate universes in a computer, and as a simulation is easier than a real thing that leads to the fact that there will be vastly more simulated universes than real universes therefore the chances are that we live in a simulated universe. (I'm chopping it down here). Fuck me, mental. Even the idea of infinite me's is just 'pfffffft'. Some of his criticisms of modern theories are really eye opening, even though he is a physicist himself, unlike others, he isn't afraid to criticise some of the more accepted speculative notions, such as the multiverse, it's so good reading a book that voices exactly my thoughts on the weakness of the multiverse theory. plus his thoughts on a theory of everything are very good too, as in the fact that there's too much much focus on an aesthetically pleasing theory, when the beauty of a theory is in the eyes of the beholder, as it were, some proponents of rival theories may think the other theory is too ugly and theirs in the prettiest. Fascinating stuff. Even when he's chatting about a theory of everything and saying 'well, it still won't answer where the final equation came from so it isn't a theory of everything', in the same way that a multiverse doesn't stop someone saying 'well where does that come from'. Brilliant stuff. I'll do a more thought out ramble about this when I have a bit more time sometime.
I was reading my book of 100 philosophical thought experiments this morning and it was quite nice to read one of them which deals with exactly my annoyance with noel on deal or no deal yesterday. 'the improbability of what has happened in the past does not affect the probability of what is about to happen....'. In your face Noel.
Stuck behind a fucking doddery old twat in Waitrose. His full fucking shop full of marked down items which they have to peel the label off, scan in then type in the reduced price. If you can't afford to shop in waitrose, fuck off elsewhere. he knew all the staffs names and everything. Yammering away to the bloke in front of him in the queue while he was trying to pack. I had 5 items, he starts talking to the cashier who isn't fucking interested at all so I decide to eject to a queue next aisle along which had died down, I hear him say 'it's alright Maureen, he's gone now', he could clearly see how exasperated I was, I wasn't going to smile and chat to him. You fucking old twat, I had to move because I have work to get back to, these people aren't your friends so if you could just get your shopping and fuck off it would make the whole thing run a little easier. Fucking annoying.
The bus that goes down my road to pick up one of the houses handicapped kids fucking belted over the speed hump as it passed me, can't imagine the disabled kids in the back are enjoying that drive.
Had some ace dreams that were all in a crazy fantasy world filled with cookie islands, airports in the sky and a big mad house.
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