Things that Blow your Mind

[Hookman]

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine and happened to get onto the subject of the 'infinite monkey' theory. The theory goes like this: If you had an infinite amount of mokneys and put them into a room with an infinite number of typewriters and gave them an infinite amount of time,they would eventually write everything in the universe that it is possible to write.

My friend could not get his head around this and spent the next 5 minutes repating the word "no" over and over again. His mind was officicialy blown! So I was wondering,I send out a message to Escapia,far and wide. What cant you get your head round?!

 

[akmarksman]

on Hollywood boulevard there is a place you can get your mind blown.

 

[zen5887]

When I saw Victor Wooten (bass player) at a clinic a few months ago, some of the stuff he talked about was just... Oh my god. Life changing.

He whole approach to music is so simple, but we never think of it like that and to listen to him explaining it and open my mind in that way was pretty much the best thing ever!

 

[Daimes2000]

This:
[link]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham's_number[/link]

I thought to have quite a good imagination about big numbers or infinity, but as i read that wikipedia article i basically gave up. ;-)

 

[Toaster Hunter]

Basically all of this

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-scientific-theories-head-explode/

its from Cracked a few months ago. My head still hurts.

 

[ninjajoeman]

this thing on game show, they give you 3 things to choose from then you choose then they show you what the one that was the bad one then they say "do you want to switch?" and you switch it changes it from a 1/3 chance to a 1/2 chance if you switch. I was so dumbfounded that I did an experiment with cards and I got 1/2 if you didn't switch and if you did. I see how it works, just it's like dividing by zero.

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Something that will blow your mind: Try to imagine a colour that does not exist. And it can't be two colours mixed.

 

[Cargando]

Your average atom lasts for about 1x10[sub/]36[/sub] years. That's 100000000000000000000000000000000000 years.

 

[Arikarin Aririkamei]

Something that will blow your mind: Try to imagine a colour that does not exist. And it can't be two colours mixed.

We see every colour on the visible spectrum. The rest is too short or long for us to see. And happens to be harmful(UV, Xray, etc.)

What blows my mind is contemplating life that might have evolved outside of Earth. There are so many possibilities, and we think of life from an Earth-chauvinist perspective. Imagine a planet where photosynthetic animals roam.

I know, thats what stops us from doing it. Hence the mind-blowingyness(?) of it.

(Damn, I realized I just repeated what you said but much more watered down. I'm going to stop typing before i embaress myself further.)

 

[TheHitcher]

Nothing really blows my mind. Apart from the stupidity of others at times.

The other day someone asked me if the back of your face exists...

 

[HSIAMetalKing]

I recently attended a reading by Richard Dawkins-- he was asked a question about his Multiverse Theory and explained it in a way that I, a humble and mathematically-inept English major, sort-of understood it. It was rather enlightening.

 

[TheNumber1Zero]

Usually getting shotgunned to the face does something along the lines of mid blowing.

Closest in terms of mind-blown experiences for me would be thinking about what it would be like if the universe didn't exist, after a while I started to freak out a little so I just relaxed and went to bed. I don't think one can blow my mind, but you're welcome to try.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

Neurons. Big, as far as cells go, there are millions of 'em in our brains and they do so many things at once without screwing up very often that it boggles my neurons (HA!).

 

[Timotei]

The fact that Modern Warfare 2's already exuberant price was upped.