Counting to 1,000,000

[George]

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Since it's just the number, I think this should be fine!

[Brisky]

165983

The number is irrelevant.

In this thread, it's the existence of the post that counts...

[EliasWexler]

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As the Irish Bishop and Philosopher George Berkeley once said 'Esse est Percipi'

'To exist is to be perceived'

[Brisky]

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So, if noone percieves you, you do not exist?

[EliasWexler]

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If a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make any noise?

Simply something to think about.

[Brisky]

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It depends on the choice or usage of words.

If you define noise a bothersome amount of sound then no, it doesn't make noise because there is nobody around to percieve the falling tree's sound as noise.

But regardless of what anyone says, the tree does make sound as it falls, because sounds are vibrations in the air caused by movements of vibrations of things.

And the falling tree does create plenty of those.

[Ara Av-Toa]

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just passing by.

[EliasWexler]

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You're not wrong Brisky.

But, can you be sure it still happens even when nothing can feel the vibrations, if there are any at all? It's a test of faith and continuity. Sure, a tree falls and you can hear it and feel it fall. So you assume that it falls the same way when nobody is around, but is that true? How can you be so sure?

[Ara Av-Toa]

165,990

still just counting...

[EliasWexler]

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What happens when we reach 1,000,000 do we stop? Do we make a new goal? A new thread? A new game? Was this thread numbered from the beginning?

[Michen_S]

-1 + 6 - 5 + 9 / 9 = 1

Elias, your second-last post asks for Quantum mechanica!

[EliasWexler]

1+6-5+9-9=2

Maybe a little, if only I were that smart

[Michen_S]

1 + 6 - 5 + 9 / 9 =3

Basically, quantum mechanica talks about the improbability of things, no matter how unlikely they are. One of them is the assumption that waves are also particles, and particles also waves on a very small (sub-atomic) scale. This means that electrons do not go in an eclipse around their core like scientists assumed before they found this. This on their turn means it's impossible to determine the exact location and speed of the electrons unless you're actively studying it at that very moment, and even then you can't see the exact location and speed at the same time. This problem can only be solved by assuming that the electons of a single atom are at all possible locations it could possibly be at the same time unless you defined the exact location, because otherwise calculations would end up being answered by infinity anyways. The same would go for the speed.

Got it so far?

[Brisky]

Vibrations in the atmosphere are a little easier to measure, though.

The tree fell, and broke in half. So it made noise. It's pretty simple...

[Michen_S]

(1 ^ 6) * 5 + 9 / 9 = 6

Okay, maybe that theory is a biiit of a stretch...