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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / How does reality emerge from unreality?

« on: 03/11/2014 13:18:52 »

1. Particles on a quantum level come in and out existence, quantum physics and general relativity don't marry up completely, concepts that we use in our physical world (for rocket science) don't really exist like infinity,  therefore the basis of reality seems very elusive, quicksand-like and unstable yet out of this we experience reality and our physical world. How does reality come out of something so shaky and so unreal?

This may or may not be comparable to other things like:
2. language
3. money

How do consonant and vowel sounds create words and a whole language so that the words seem to extend or emerge from objects rather than just being labels i.e if you break down the word 'bottle' - 'boh tuhl' you see how it is meaningless, but the word itself 'bottle' intensely evokes the actual object even to the point where the word looks like the object and the object looks like the word. Or maybe that's just me being weird? Or, regarding money how did a system become so integral to our existence and so 'real,' when it itself is just a concept and not worth the paper its written on literally - a £20 note is worth much less than £20 regarding the paper and ink. And yet the unreality of money has extremely real, life or death, implications.

The language and money examples might not have been applicable to my point...I'm not clever enough to know. But just how does reality emerge from unreality and how can we trust reality if it has such a shaky foundation? For me reality never felt very real anyway.

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Plant Sciences, Zoology & Evolution / Am I right in thinking sexual reproduction began with communication?

« on: 03/11/2014 12:45:22 »

So as I understand, in the beginning microbes got heavier and more complicated and multiplied (asexually) by dividing. My question is, did sexual reproduction begin by the exchange of information through the antennae of microbes? So that they were trying to find out about each other and about the environment, and by exchanging information through the antennae they inadvertently began the process of sexual reproduction.

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / Re: What creates the fractal branching shape and why?

« on: 02/11/2014 13:58:56 »

You have entanglements finding the 'cheapest' ways transporting energy in plants, so maybe that could be one reason. A lot of the universe seems to be about what will cost the least.

How do the energy particles/waves know what is the cheapest route?

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Physics, Astronomy & Cosmology / What creates the fractal branching shape and why?

« on: 02/11/2014 11:55:36 »

Branches of trees, blood vessels, lightning, lung alveoli etc all have the same branching (fractal) shape. Also, I paint and when I've experiment with printing  have found when you press two surfaces together, with one or both thickly painted, when you pull them apart you will get the same branching pattern. There is a word for this art technique, but I can't remember it right now...so I've heard that this shape is created because that's the way energy travels, but can someone explain that to me? What is it about the way energy travels that creates these branching shapes?