Fallen

Fallen from Sascha Geddert on Vimeo.

One of my favorite little videos in a long time, that one.  As someone else put it, "When people ask me how I can be at peace without belief in god or an afterlife, now I can just show them Fallen and save myself a lot of time and effort."  I love the way the meteor shakes his little butt with anticipation when he first learns to have fun with his situation, just like Finn wiggles his butt before attacking a fake rattle-mouse on the floor.

I've been reading a lot of physics, lately, particularly quantum mechanics and the various interpretations.  The basic theory makes sense, but the interpretations seem to be stretching credulity.  For example, there's the Many Worlds interpretation of QM, which says that every time there's a quantum decision to be made, the universe splits in two.  Apparently Stephen Hawking believes in that one.

And then there's the Copenhagen Interpretation, which says that faster than light signaling is possible between entangled particles.  Niels Bohr (my personal hero) believed that one; in fact, he was its primary author.

I dunno, I think trying to interpret beyond what the simple equations are telling you is probably a futile exercise, unless there is something that you can actually experimentally verify, and for now there's nothing like that.  There is something to be said for not fighting the situation that you're in.