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So I know that "Conciousness as the Fifth Force" gets a lot of hate around here, but hear me out, this is legit.
So my mother always told me "A watched kettle never boils".
The other day, I found this out to be true. Every morning (okay, sometimes it's the afternoon) I wake up and put on the kettle for some tea or coffee. I always fill it up to just above the "min" line. After I put it on, I go pull some clothes on, which takes around a minute or two, and by the time I come back the kettle will have boiled. Well, the other day everything went kind of crazy, because I got my clothes on first since it was kinda nippy (I had slept with the window open because, ironically, it was too warm the night before).
So I was in the kitchen as the kettle boiled. So I sat and watched it, and waited.
And waited, and waited, and waited.
It took FOREVER to boil, I mean it must have been like at least 5 or 6 minutes, way longer then usual! So I got bored and I noticed there was some pasta sauce on my shirt so I went to change it and AS SOON AS I WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM (i.e. as soon as there was no longer an observer) - The kettle clicked. It had boiled, but only once I was no longer observing.
Combine this with that fancy wave function collapsing quantum mechanics stuff that no-one really understands and I really don't see how anyone can dispute the fact.
My conciousness stopped that kettle from boiling, there is no other explanation as to why it took SO LONG TO BOIL.
So my mother always told me "A watched kettle never boils".
The other day, I found this out to be true. Every morning (okay, sometimes it's the afternoon) I wake up and put on the kettle for some tea or coffee. I always fill it up to just above the "min" line. After I put it on, I go pull some clothes on, which takes around a minute or two, and by the time I come back the kettle will have boiled. Well, the other day everything went kind of crazy, because I got my clothes on first since it was kinda nippy (I had slept with the window open because, ironically, it was too warm the night before).
So I was in the kitchen as the kettle boiled. So I sat and watched it, and waited.
And waited, and waited, and waited.
It took FOREVER to boil, I mean it must have been like at least 5 or 6 minutes, way longer then usual! So I got bored and I noticed there was some pasta sauce on my shirt so I went to change it and AS SOON AS I WALKED OUT OF THE ROOM (i.e. as soon as there was no longer an observer) - The kettle clicked. It had boiled, but only once I was no longer observing.
Combine this with that fancy wave function collapsing quantum mechanics stuff that no-one really understands and I really don't see how anyone can dispute the fact.
My conciousness stopped that kettle from boiling, there is no other explanation as to why it took SO LONG TO BOIL.