Category: quotes

“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulating consciousness.”  –  Max Planck, theoretical physicist who originated quantum theory, which won him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1918
 
http://www.collective-evolution.com/2015/07/20/quantum-experiment-shows-how-time-doesnt-exist-as-we-think-it-does-mind-altering/
 
The “delayed-choice” experiment, or “quantum eraser,” and it can be considered a modified version of the double slit experiment.
 
“according to the quantum mechanic laws that govern subatomic affairs, of a particle like an electron to exist in a murky state of possibility — to be anywhere, everywhere or nowhere at all — until clicked into substantiality by a laboratory detector or an eyeball.”
 
“reality does not exist unless we are looking at it.” It suggests that we are living in a holographic-type of universe.
 
“If we attempt to attribute an objective meaning to the quantum state of a single system, curious paradoxes appear: quantum effects mimic not only instantaneous action-at-a-distance, but also, as seen here, influence of future actions on past events, even after these events have been irrevocably recorded.” – Asher Peres, pioneer in quantum information theory
 
He asks us to imagine a star emitting a photon billions of years ago, heading in the direction of planet Earth. In between, there is a galaxy. As a result of what’s known as “gravitational lensing,” the light will have to bend around the galaxy in order to reach Earth, so it has to take one of two paths, go left or go right. Billions of years later, if one decides to set up an apparatus to “catch” the photon, the resulting pattern would be (as explained above in the double slit experiment) an interference pattern. This demonstrates that the photon took one way, and it took the other way.
 
One could also choose to “peek” at the incoming photon, setting up a telescope on each side of the galaxy to determine which side the photon took to reach Earth. The very act of measuring or “watching” which way the photon comes in means it can only come in from one side. The pattern will no longer be an interference pattern representing multiple possiblities, but a single clump pattern showing “one” way.
 
What does this mean? It means how we choose to measure “now” affects what direction the photon took billions of years ago. Our choice in the present moment affected what had already happened in the past…. This makes absolutely no sense, which is a common phenomenon when it comes to quantum physics. Regardless of our ability make sense of it, it’s real. This experiment also suggests that quantum entanglement (which has also been verified, read more about that here) exists regardless of time. Meaning two bits of matter can actually be entangled, again, in time.

http://qz.com/394713/life-advice-upon-turning-age-30-from-the-president-of-y-combinator/

Short version:

1) Never put your family, friends, or significant other low on your priority list.

2) Life is not a dress rehearsal—this is probably it.

3) How to succeed: pick the right thing to do

4) On work: it’s difficult to do a great job on work you don’t care about.

5) On money: Whether or not money can buy happiness, it can buy freedom, and that’s a big deal.

6) Talk to people more.

7) Don’t waste time.

8) Don’t let yourself get pushed around.

9) Have clear goals for yourself every day, every year, and every decade.

10) However, as valuable as planning is, if a great opportunity comes along you should take it.

11) Go out of your way to be around smart, interesting, ambitious people.

12) Minimize your own cognitive load from distracting things that don’t really matter.

13) Keep your personal burn rate low.

14) Summers are the best.

15) Don’t worry so much.

16) Ask for what you want.

17) If you think you’re going to regret not doing something, you should probably do it.

18) Exercise. Eat well. Sleep.

19) Go out of your way to help people.

20) Youth is a really great thing.

21) Tell your parents you love them more often.

22) This too shall pass.

23) Learn voraciously.

24) Do new things often.

25) Remember how intensely you loved your boyfriend/girlfriend when you were a teenager? Love him/her that intensely now.

26) Don’t screw people and don’t burn bridges.

27) Forgive people.

28) Don’t chase status.

29) Most things are ok in moderation.

30) Existential angst is part of life.

31) Be grateful and keep problems in perspective.

32) Be a doer, not a talker.

33) Given enough time, it is possible to adjust to almost anything, good or bad.

34) Think for a few seconds before you act. Think for a few minutes if you’re angry.

35) Don’t judge other people too quickly.

36) The days are long but the decades are short.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ethansiegel/2015/06/08/dark-energy-renders-97-of-the-galaxies-in-our-observable-universe-permanently-unreachable/?linkId=14788497

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xvdbtt_eat-fast-live-longer-hd_shortfilms

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/communication/35-quotes-how-care-less-about-what-others-think.html?ref=tp&n=1

“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.” ― Virginia Woolf “A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up.” ― Mae West

 

“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.” ― Richard P. Feynman

 

“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”—Lao Tzu “Never dull your shine for somebody else.” ― Tyra Banks “If being an egomaniac means I believe in what I do and in my art or music, then in that respect you can call me that… I believe in what I do, and I’ll say it.” ― John Lennon

 

“I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.” ― Michel de Montaigne

 

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind.”— Dr. Seuss

 

“Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will. “― Suzy Kassem

 

“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”— Oscar Wilde “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.”—Steve Jobs “Some people say, “Never let them see you cry.” I say, if you’re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone.” ― Tina Fey

 

“Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.”— Albert Einstein

 

“Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.”— Angelina Jolie

 

“I don’t care what you think about me. I don’t think about you at all.”— Coco Chanel

 

“Don’t worry about who doesn’t like you, who has more, or who’s doing what.” ― Erma Bombeck

“There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do.” ― Marianne Williamson

 

“Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.” ― Cynthia Kersey

 

“No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.” ― Laurell K. Hamilton

 

“When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them.” ― Marilyn Monroe

 

“Don’t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you’re the boss. Or they won’t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.” ― Tina Fey

 

“I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.” ― Charlotte Brontë

 

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.” ― Amy Poehler

 

“You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.” ― Olin Miller

 

“There is nothing more attractive than confidence, once she sees her own beauty, everyone else will.” ― Habeeb Akande

 

“Few and mean as my gifts may be, I actually am, and do not need for my own assurance or the assurance of my fellows any secondary testimony.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“People who repeatedly attack your confidence and self-esteem are quite aware of your potential, even if you are not.” ― Wayne Gerard Trotman

 

“So many people along the way, whatever it is you aspire to do, will tell you it can’t be done. But it all it takes is imagination. You dream. You plan. You reach.”― Michael Phelps

 

“Well, laddie, if you’ve let an old buzzard like me hurt your confidence, you couldn’t have had much in the first place.” ― Tamora Pierce

 

“Most people just want to see you fall, that’s more reason to stand tall.” ― Emma Michelle

 

“There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.” ― Aristotle

 

“He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

“When I was growing up I always wanted to be someone. Now I realize I should have been more specific.” ― Lily Tomlin

 

“One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” ― Sigmund Freud “My dear, I don’t give a damn.” ― Margaret Mitchell

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/246429

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/there-is-growing-evidence-that-our-universe-is-a-giant-hologram?linkId=14171150&trk_source=popular

https://medium.com/life-learning/what-i-learned-about-leadership-when-i-interviewed-the-biggest-drug-dealer-in-history-42f6220d962e

 

TRY TO GET THE PEOPLE WORKING FOR YOU TO BE MORE SUCCESSFUL THAN YOU

HONESTY

BE VERY LOW KEY

ONLY DO THE ESSENTIAL

DON’T MAKE IT ABOUT THE MONEY

REDUCE CONFRONTATIONS

FREEMIUM

ASSUME THE WORST

 

http://www.lifehack.org/articles/productivity/this-list-infographics-about-achieving-success-will-surely-inspire-you.html

http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/7-scientific-self-help-books-will-transform-life/

https://www.quantamagazine.org/20150424-wormholes-entanglement-firewalls-er-epr/
 
If two quantum particles are entangled, they become, in effect, two parts of a single unit. What happens to one entangled particle happens to the other, no matter how far apart they are.
 
If you come upon the right-handed glove, you instantaneously know the other is left-handed. There’s nothing spooky about that. But in the quantum version, both gloves are actually left- and right-handed (and everything in between) up until the moment you observe them. Spookier still, the left-handed glove doesn’t become left until you observe the right-handed one
 
Hawking realized that if one particle fell into a black hole and the other escaped, the hole would emit radiation, glowing like a dying ember. Given enough time, the hole would evaporate into nothing, raising the question of what happened to the information content of the stuff that fell into it.
 
But the rules of quantum mechanics forbid the complete destruction of information. (Hopelessly scrambling information is another story, which is why documents can be burned and hard drives smashed. There’s nothing in the laws of physics that prevents the information lost in a book’s smoke and ashes from being reconstructed, at least in principle.) So the question became: Would the information that originally went into the black hole just get scrambled? Or would it be truly lost? The arguments set off what Susskind called the “black hole wars.
 
Eventually Susskind — in a discovery that shocked even him — realized (with Gerard ’t Hooft) that all the information that fell down the hole was actually trapped on the black hole’s two-dimensional event horizon, the surface that marks the point of no return. The information wasn’t lost — it was scrambled and stored out of reach. The horizon encoded everything inside, like a hologram.
 
That left open the question of what goes on in the interiors, said Susskind, and answers to that “were all over the map.” After all, since no information could ever escape from inside a black hole’s horizon, the laws of physics prevented scientists from ever directly testing what was going on inside.
 
Then in 2012 Polchinski, along with Ahmed Almheiri, Donald Marolf and James Sully, all of them at the time at Santa Barbara, came up with an insight so startling it basically said to physicists: Hold everything. We know nothing.
 
If a black hole’s event horizon is a smooth, seemingly ordinary place, as relativity predicts (the authors call this the “no drama” condition), the particles coming out of the black hole must be entangled with particles falling into the black hole. Yet for information not to be lost, the particles coming out of the black hole must also be entangled with particles that left long ago and are now scattered about in a fog of Hawking radiation. That’s one too many kinds of entanglements, the AMPS authors realized. One of them would have to go.
 
The reason is that maximum entanglements have to be monogamous, existing between just two particles. Two maximum entanglements at once — quantum polygamy — simply cannot happen, which suggests that the smooth, continuous space-time inside the throats of black holes can’t exist.
 

 

 

http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-theories-on-why-we-arent-visited-by-aliens-yet

 

http://io9.com/5970501/the-great-filter-theory-suggests-humans-have-already-conquered-the-threat-of-extinction

 

http://listverse.com/2014/09/30/10-reasons-that-we-still-havent-found-aliens/

 

http://io9.com/11-of-the-weirdest-solutions-to-the-fermi-paradox-456850746

 

http://skepchick.org/2012/01/where-are-all-the-aliens/

 

http://praxtime.com/2013/02/03/so-where-are-all-the-aliens/

 

http://www.cracked.com/article_20216_5-insane-theories-about-why-we-havent-discovered-alien-life.html

 

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alien-supercivilizations-absent-from-100-000-nearby-galaxies/

If God has a divine plan for everything. Why pray to change it…

“I cannot articulate enough to express my dislike to people who think that understanding spoils your experience… How would they know?”

Marvin Minsky

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244176

If there were some way for you to download decades of my experience in the business world and sort through the individuals who have had great success bringing real products to market, you’d find something very interesting. 

You’d find a lot of very competent, talented, smart, ingenious, driven people who work very hard at their jobs. And the one thing they care about most is helping to deliver groundbreaking products and services that customers prefer over the competition. One more thing they’d all have in common: a specific area of functional expertise. Whether it’s product development, operations, marketing, finance, or an entire market, there is always one thing they do best. The same is true of nearly every successful entrepreneur you’ve ever heard of:

http://nickrowney.com/so-you-think-have-a-great-idea/#more-%27

You’re not alone in fact everyone I have ever met has at least one burning in the back of their brain. You see the Great Idea is one thing that we humans cling to in our misguided belief that we are special.

Of course we are not special when it comes to ideas as, just as you are having your epiffany someone on the other side of the world had that thought ten years ago, and you know what makes it worse theirs was better.

Oh sure we struggle with the fact and look for weaknesses with their idea kidding ourselves that our way is better….but is it.

http://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/how-steve-jobs-trained-his-own-brain.html

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/244107

http://listverse.com/2015/03/07/10-bizarre-military-strategies-that-actually-worked/

http://www.space.com/28738-einstein-theory-of-relativity-explained-infgraphic.html