Next Argument:

Being in two places at once.

What happens when you measure something? In my case I usually take out a tape measure and hold it next to the thing I want to measure. Then I read a number off the tape measure that tells me how long something is. If I want to weigh something, I put it on a scale and again, read a number off of it. Those numbers are measuring something compared to something else. The something else usually being a standard unit of measurement. All these things involve looking at something. Looking at something means having light reflect off of the measure and going into our eye so we can process it. After all, ever try to measure something in the dark? So, what happens when you want to measure something really small? Well if you try to measure an electron by shining light on it, the photons that make up light are too big. It’s like trying to measure where a billiard ball is by hitting it with another billiard ball. You alter it in the process of measuring it. Well, that creates a big problem. Turns out, we can measure something like an electron only partially. We can measure where it is, but not where it’s going. Or we can measure where it’s going but not where it is. That’s because we will alter it in the process of measuring it. So, if we know where something like an electron is going, we only know the probability that it is either in one spot or another. We can’t know for certain. Why do you care? I’ll get to that. If I send an electron into a box and wait for it to come out the other side I can measure that. But if I want to know the path the electron took through the box I cannot know that. Where ever I measure the electron in the box it will show up. I will see it on this side, and that side, doesn’t matter. Even if the box is 100 miles square! Same thing. I will see it where ever I look. Why? Because it has an equal probability of being in each spot. Actually, you could say that the electron is in all the spots at once until you try to measure it, then it will only be in one spot. This is absolutely true. It’s called superposition and it applies to everything, not just electrons. The only reason you don’t notice it is because we are too large to notice. There is a theory that says each position the electron is in represents a completely different universe. I don’t know about that, but I do say that each position represents a different path through this universe.

Ok, what the hell am I talking about? Paths! Remember, we’re moving. So, whatever happens is really just a path we take at the speed we’re going at. I can show you a path right now, well almost. I want you to do something. If you’re sitting, I want you to stand. If you’re standing, I want you to sit. Only if it’s possible. But I don’t want you to do it now. I want you to do it in a minute. But before you do, I think we can both agree that the possibility of you doing something different than you are doing is as likely as the possibility of you continuing to do the same thing. Now I want you to make a choice. Stand or sit. Do it NOW. What did you do? Are you sure? You know what you did because you are looking at yourself doing it. You are “measuring” yourself doing it. But I would suggest that you are also doing the other behavior. It’s just that you cannot measure that because based on the 6 seconds it took to read this, the “other you” is 7 times 229 miles or about 1,600 miles away by now. We both agreed that they were equally possible. You made a choice and now we are here with this result. That does not mean the other choice does not exist. Just that it doesn’t exist for us at this time. Everything works like this. You have options, you make choices. Each choice you make takes you to a different physical space. But here is the amazing part. Your choices not only take you to a different physical space in this universe, but they take all the rest of us with you!! Don’t believe me? Of course, you don’t. But here, I’ll prove it to you with two words; Gavrilo Principe. He’s the guy that shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand and started World War One. His choice took the entire world down a path that cost over 60 million people their lives but eventually resulted in both you and I being here.