nonlocality

nonlocality is physics for magical thinking. magical thinking is one of the attributes a person may have which psychiatrists use to diagnose a person as 'crazy'. an example is say you're watching a ball game and for some reason you think if you wait a few seconds before grabbing the next potato chip, or at least before biting into this chip, say it is chipotle cheddar, and maybe you even have some tasty dip, but the thought you have is just wait to chomp on the chip and your team will get their out, make their basket, turn the ball into a puck so you can watch a real sport.

or maybe your thing is paint your face, or wear a lucky shirt or watch the game at a particular bar drinking a particular beer. all of this, if you think it will really make your team win, is magical thinking and psychiatrists want to give you substantial doses of substantial medications having substantial effects upon your brain synapses, liver, blood pressure, white blood count and metabolic system, to name a few things.

in reality, if there is such a thing, most psychiatrists let this sports phenomenon have a pass. that is, they won't say you are crazy for wearing you lucky underwear to a ball game. but if you start thinking it will impact things like getting a date, then they start to make notes in their notebooks. if you think painting Microsoft's logo on your face while taking shots of whiskey as the stock market opens Monday morning, then they'll say you need therapy.

which brings me back to nonlocality, a physics theory in which all things impact all other thing, no matter where they are and even instantly. perhaps you wake up in the middle of the night worrying about a friend several states away and you find out later they woke up in the middle of the night worrying about you at the same time.

you'd probably believe that and write it off as stuff we don't know about. but if you start thinking too much about this kind of thing, you'd want to explain it and you can't really, so then you're crazy.

what is causality if there is no firmament. God they say created the firmament on one of those days before there were actually days. which throws the Creationist calendar off a bit. how long is a day to God? particularly before God recognized a difference between here and there, which happened before anyone even considered there could be a you and me and everyone else.

i've read that politics is local. it takes being local to feel free to use that kind of bad grammar, no doubt. that's part of the beauty of politics.

meanwhile, we're all wondering what's going to happen next? did michael jackson really die? did we know it ahead of time? do we wish we owned part of his recording copyrights collection? do we wish we had purchased memorabilia from the neverland estate a few days ago? or do we just wish that we had a couple bottles of some of those medications he was on?

me, i'm thinking about Farrah. in 1977. see you there, but bring something useful. ginseng tea, grapefruit or aspirin, everyone rides free.