You know that movie called The Messengers where the baby can see ghosts?
It got me thinking...
If you've ever studied a bit of psychology, then you may have learned about vision-how it works and how it develops.
There is this one experiment that was done with cats. They raised one group of kittens in an environment in which there was only horizontal stumuli, and another group in an environment in which there was only vertical stimuli. after devolpement, cats which were raised in a horizontal-only enviro where unable to detect vertical lines, and so were unable to go through doors and such, and vise versa for the vertial-only kittens.
So the point of this experiment is that past the window of vision developement, they could no longer learn to see what indeed existed in the world.
So imagine that when you were a child that had been deprived of certain critical elements which enabled you to see what you see today.
And here's what i was thinking: if when you are a child you are not exposed to ghosts or elements which enable you to see ghosts, then past that window of vision developement, you will never gain that ability to see them.
So an infant living in a haunted house would be able to see the paranormal because at that age you are still developing. (babies have way more brain cells than adult brains, where the unused ones die off after developement.)
Any way, I guess it's safe to say that i could suspend my disbelief for this movie.
Do you know any one who says they can see ghosts? ask them when was the first time they saw one.
Today's Lesson: the more we know the more questions we have.
February 04, 2007
January 25, 2007
no need to worry
"L’énergie radiante prend 8 minutes pour atteindre la Terre, mais environ 1 million d’années pour atteindre la photosphère à partir du noyau. "
Even if the sun ran out of hydrogen to fuse at this very moment, we would still have a million years and eight minutes to locate a suitable planet to relocate to, invent transporation, pack our bags, create a new religion and get the hell out of planet earth.
Unfortunatly, our own Progress may end us before 1 000 000 a 8 min, but it's compforting to know how i'm not going to die.
Even if the sun ran out of hydrogen to fuse at this very moment, we would still have a million years and eight minutes to locate a suitable planet to relocate to, invent transporation, pack our bags, create a new religion and get the hell out of planet earth.
Unfortunatly, our own Progress may end us before 1 000 000 a 8 min, but it's compforting to know how i'm not going to die.
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