Okapi again

I am posting this picture of one of my favorite animals for a special girl. I took it at the St. Louis, Missouri zoo last week.

Lack of Reality is too Unreal for me.

I wish someone could explain how the physics of subatomic particles can tell me that reality doesn't exist? Maybe this really is the Matrix! The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle has been used by radical constructivists as evidence that reality is all in our own minds. If that is true then what is the point of studying anything? If there is no ecosystem then why study it? If there is no Earth then why try to save it? If there is no fat, then why not just eat chocolate? Sounds like a deal to me (the chocolate thing that is). Now there is a new study that is supposedly backing up this idea. http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070425-reality.htm. I am a relatively bright person but I still don't get this whole idea. Just because something is unstudiable does that mean it doesn't exist? Sounds like a bit of scientific arrogance if you ask me. According to John Wheeler, "No el­e­men­ta­ry phe­nom­e­non is a phe­nom­e­non un­til it is an ob­served phe­nom­e­non". Basically, as I read it, since particle movement and velocity are random and, since position, spin or speed can be observed at a moment but cannot be predicted before or after that moment, if you aren't looking, reality doesn't exist. Little children think that, when they play peek-a-boo the person disappears (or child psychologists and learning theorists think they think this). These theories are like that. If no one is observing then it isn't real. Again, that seems really arrogant.

I can buy the randomness - Einstein apparently had problems with that. Perhaps it is the randomness that keeps it all together. Too much order might result in events of harmonics that would break the universe apart like the Tacoma Narrows bridge or other bridges that suffer due to resonance: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/meetsusp.html#clips.

This is just science according to Carolyn, of course. I am not an atomic physicist but I wonder how they justify studying anything if it isn't there at all?