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[From: ] [author: ] [Date: 11-07-09] [Hit: ]
that by the time youve returned that MORE TIME has elapsed for your friend than it has for you! That time difference is just too small for you to even notice, much less care about.Question 3: If atoms can be anywhere at anyone time, why do my senses tell me im always solid?Answer to question 3: See answer to question 2.......

And if you were meaning specifically the heisenberg uncertainty principle, the reason it doesn't seem to apply at the everyday scale is the same reason that special relativity doesn't seem to apply at everyday speeds. They BOTH still apply, but in the case of the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the uncertainty in the momentum and position of an object (ESPECIALLY since we're not considering a single particle here, but a huge amount of them together) is basically irrelevant. Just like special relativity is functionally irrelevant, even though it's still COMPLETELY true that if you're at home watching a movie on the couch with a friend, and you get up, walk to the kitchen and get more popcorn, that by the time you've returned that MORE TIME has elapsed for your friend than it has for you! That time difference is just too small for you to even notice, much less care about.

Question 3: If atoms can be anywhere at anyone time, why do my senses tell me im always "solid"?

Answer to question 3: See answer to question 2. It's probability again. You take a bunch of particles, put them together, and the likelihood they act a certain way given a certain set of conditions is very high.

Question 4: Also what is consciousness, atoms looking at atoms? How?!

Answer to question 4: It's the electrochemical activity of your brain. As for "how", and this is butchering a very complicated subject again, think of your brain like a computer (just one that was designed via evolutionary means). You give a computer a set of inputs, it has a function it runs them through, and you get an output. Consciousness is that output. The input is the stimuli relayed to the brain via your sensory receptors, and the function(s) the brain runs them through is based off the pattern of neuron firing...

The ONLY way you'll get truly satisfying answers to your questions is to study. Study physics, study biology, study philosophy (specially relating to the integration of modern neuroscience into the idea of consciousness), and study statistics. You'll be glad you did, because you won't ever look at the world quite the same way again, and that's in a good way!
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