I’m normally not a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me Superman

speed of light made me an old school skeptic. one night i was looking at the stars with my dad when he told me that we don’t know if those stars are even there anymore. that the light that we see travelled millions of lightyears and that star might long have been dead, but the light that it radiated millions of years ago is just reaching our retina. fuck. i was 12 and my father told me that the certainty of the stars above me is not that certain.

so, i’m s skeptic that learned to believe from school and einstein that if you travel in a spaceship at the speed of light somehow time does not tick on your side of life, but the earth and all their people will get older and older. now all this is true if you consider the speed of light as the fastest-lead-cosmic-maximum-speed-ever-head-total-global ever. so, imagine my frustration when i read this little piece of article/news in the wall street journal:

Einstein’s theory of relativity incorporates his crucial idea that the speed of light—about 186,000 miles a second—is a barrier that can’t realistically be breached. In the famous equation E=mc² that equates mass with the energy contained within it, for example, the “c” represents the speed of light. If particles go faster than light, things become troublesome.
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i became a skeptic over a lie. it appears that neutrinos go faster than light. and why doesn’t my spelling check underline neutrinos?!, they weren’t suppose to exist.

first of all, modern science is obviously too regulated by leftist ideology. how are you supposed to measure anything when you have to take into consideration the location of the moon and its role in altering the earth’s crust when the experiment is being conducted? i mean, did newton do that? did pitagora? did leibnitz? we should have taken the neutrinos’ higher speed into consideration even before we discovered them. take the god particle for example, it’s spoken for, christians called dibs.

now, my skepticism is slowly transcending with the speed of hercules’ tortoise into delusion. if i were to travel in a spaceship at the speed of light and watch a neutrinos experiment i would see it before it would appear. i would reach in time to see it. so here’s what i think we should do. we should talk to the weavers and assassins in wanted and make them do a gun that shoots curved bullets with the speed of neutrinos. then if somebody would shoot a gun towards you and you would shoot back your bullet would reach the other guy before he even shot his round in the first place. ka boom!

sometime in the future there will be a cold war II. if you shoot a nuclear missile towards me i will shoot one back in time that will hit you right before you shot yours, and you shoot another one that will hit before the one that hit before yours, than another one before that, all back in time. for all we know we are dead, but our future still radiates content towards the past, just like a dead stars light. fuck, i’m a skeptic again.

the thing i never quite got is why do we assume that things will always be the same. why do we think that physics is absolute. maybe one day the laws of gravity will change because of some cosmic event and we will have different gravity. some say that these neutrinos are matter scattered by a supernova explosion and they reached earth. who knows what kind of other particles will hit our lands. maybe krypton will fall from the sky, that would definitely change stuff. maybe some star would start moving, or maybe a blue planet. and this is why, according to modern science, melancholics are the new skeptics.

the reason we don’t want to change our minds about physics or anything else is regret.that’s why we wait until our last moment of doom.

Three studies were conducted to explore participants’ regret when making reversible decisions and to test the hypothesis that changing one’s mind will increase post-outcome regret. The first two studies employed the Ultimatum game and the Trust game. The third study used a variant of the Monty Hall problem. All games were conducted by individual participants playing interactively against a computer. The outcomes were designed to capture a common characteristic of real-life decisions: they varied from rather negative to fairly positive, and for every outcome, it was possible to imagine both more and less profitable outcomes. In all experiments, those who changed their minds reported much stronger post- outcome regret than those who did not change, even if the final outcomes were equally good (Experiments 2 and 3) or better (Experiment 1)
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we feel regret and sorrow for the death of our ideas, maybe also shame of being wrong. so just imagine for a moment how wrong we are on most things. and i’m smiling while writing this.