Sunday, January 03, 2010

Why we are like waves

Here's something for you to ponder. Think of an experience from your childhood, something you can remember clearly. Something you can see, feel, maybe even smell as if you were really there - again. After all, you really were there back then. Weren't you?

Actually, you were not. Not one single atom that is in your body today was there when that event took place. Not one.

Think about that for a moment. Matter flows from place to place and momentarily comes together to be you. You are not the stuff of which you are made.

(Courtesy of Richard Dawkins)

3 comments:

Retro Blog said...

ah HAH! Gotcha! If you have not cut your hair since you were born, you have those original cells, granted they are dead cells but you gottem, they have NOT been replaced.

Karl Plesz said...

Interesting. But I wonder if the atoms that make up the dead hair cells are still the same ones.....

Retro Blog said...

Nthat is creepy, makes the M theory almost perfectly clear.