Key’s Reviews > A Tale for the Time Being > Status Update

“Schrödinger…maintained that physicists hung onto the notion of collapse [upon particle observation] because without it all possibilities, physical and otherwise, would begin to propagate, and before long ‘we should find our surroundings rapidly turning into a quagmire or …featureless jelly or plasma, all contours becoming blurred, we ourselves probably becoming jellyfish“ EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Related to Schrödinger’s cat: “Does the existence of a singular cat, either dead or alive, require an external observer, i.e., you? And if not you, then who? Can the cat be an observer of itself? And without an external observer, do we all just exist in an array of all possible states at once?” Or do we exist at all?? Is our existence dependent on being observed?

“Everything in the universe is constantly changing, and nothing stays the same, and we must understand how quickly time flows by if we are to wake up and truly live our lives. That’s what it means to be a time being… And just like that, you die.”

I too, forgot to think about the time difference between Nao writing her diary and Ruth coming into contact with it. *face palm* of Course it’s been years!

Shit. Brutal chapters

2 messages: 17th century Chinese saying, “a great man should die as a shattered jewel rather than live as an intact tile” & song“impossible dream”“about how it’s OK to have impossible goals because if you follow your unreachable star, no matter how hopeless or far, your heart will be peaceful when you’re dead, even though you might be scared and covered with scars like I am while you’re still alive”

Crazy how I was thinking about how I was thinking-not-thinking on my long drive home today. That meditation can be a way to process things more subconsciously than actively thinking about things. Intriguing!

Privileged Californians are immature people no matter the age. Nao said it, not me!