how often do you phase through solid objects

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The really scary thing is that, according to the principles of quantum mechanics, it absolutely is possible that if you, for example, slap your hand into a table enough times, eventually one of those times will see each atom composing both objects missing the ones from the other, and so both the math and evidence suggests that there is indeed a greater than zero % chance that your hand actually will phase through that table whenever you slap it. And the probability increases each time.
 
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Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
I had a Differential Equations professor claim that modern physics had a non-zero chance that you could phase right through a wall. I don'tknow hwat the fuck he was talking about but it's fun to bring up.

Edit: @Cats is familiar with it.
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I am extremely delighted and maybe more than just a little bit frightened by the field of quantum mechanics and how particles behave completely differently and in seemingly impossible or alarmingly non-standard ways at the subatomic scale. I am not a skilled mathematician though so I am unable to proceed down my own path into The Microverse or come to any of my own codifiable and mathematically demonstrable conclusions about anything that actually matters to the field. But I like theorizing about it in ignorance. It helps add even more layers to the mystery and excitement of a field when you aren't simply able to intuit fundamental aspects of it...not that any of Earth's scientists can truly "intuit" all of the fundamentals of quantum mechanics anyway, because it is a grossly incomplete field with an unknown amount of necessary pieces completely missing and not understood/understandable by anyone.

My favorite ludicrously extreme theory that I like to entertain thoughts about sometimes, is that from the very moment that The Unified Field Theory is calculated and shifts into mathematical axiom, or maybe even other stuff like maybe P=NP gets solved, we will be able to go outside our houses and, in real time, watch our species shift into its technological singularity to the point where, within a few days, hours, or even minutes our entire planet, and maybe even the observable Universe, may look completely and utterly alien to a person existing before the Theory was codified. Singularity Collapse probably wouldn't be nearly that quick but I still like to imagine it happening. I am not very smart and easily entertained by fantastical stories
 
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AI developments have been the most neat thing to me over the past few years. I love casually following it all while seeing all of the dramatic improvements in the quality of the algorithms and software. Back a couple years ago almost now when all of the AI art and storywriting programs were just starting to become available online we had so much fun (clearly) playing around with them in chat, writing stories about George Floyd and drawing warped kittycats. I try not to even focus on the aspects of the field that piss me off, I refuse to let my excitement at the future of some day having a living, sentient planetary brain become tainted by the globohomo trying to teach the robot to be a dickless, woke faggot or the monopolist trying to hoard everything for himself and place it all behind a gigantic corporate paywall.
 
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I wish I could do this. It would come in handy for many things.

I'm fairly certain cats have solid object phasing capabilities. It's the only way I can explain how my cat gets into certain places.
 
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