Stuff I Don't Get...

One cannot "wreck" havoc on something. The term is "wreak havoc". Google "wreck havoc" and see what happens. Please inform all your local newscasters.

The Double Slit Experiment: Contrary to the beliefs of some rednecks, this has nothing to do with whores. Watch this video and see if YOU get it. No law says you have to be a physicist to get it...they don't seem to get it either. It's enough to make you want to interfere with yourself.

We're told the "particles" are NOT particles...unless they are observed. But this creates a problem with some people. The notion that "observation affects reality" is sometimes used to imply there must be some consciousness involved in the universe, at least at the quantum level. This can lead to stuff like Francis Collins's BioLogos Foundation and fuzzy headed notions of trying to mix actual science with "faith". The article Quantum Theory Demonstrated: Observation Affects Reality explains that the "observation" in question here does NOT have to be human observation or even observation by a living creature, which illustrates that "consciousness" is irrelevant as to the behavior of the "particles". Yet that article itself obviously has the unfortunately misleading phrase "observation affects reality" in its title.
Luckily, there are folk like PZ Meyers to douse things like BioLogos.

Why do some people have such trouble with the word nuclear? Even the former President of the United States, called them "nucular weapons". Just say the word "new", followed quickly by the word "clear" and you get the phonetically correct "nuclear". How hard is that?

Why is the default view of society basically that children are the property of their parents? Why are small children not removed from homes where obvious abuse is taking place, such as in the homes of the Westboro Baptist Church people? Although in specific cases, sometimes a court will rule that the well being of the child trumps parents religious beliefs, in general we are still told to "respect their religious beliefs". A court might rule that the child of a Jehovah's Witness does not have to die just because the parents oppose blood transfusion on religious grounds...but they would never rule that parents are not allowed to teach their children that. Why not?

If another country...South Africa or maybe Germany, were doing the things in their countries that Israel is doing in theirs the world would be at war to stop it. Why is it ok for Israel? What things? Essentially keeping all non-Jews in prisons...building whole highways for "Jews only". How is it that all self-identified "Jews" in the world number less than 14 million, or less than 0.2% of the world population...yet "Jewish influence" is vastly out of proportion to those numbers? Why does merely pointing out such a fact get you accused of "anti-Semitism"?

Why does all of human society seem to be essentially a collection of cults; some very large, some tiny; some far more insane and violent than others, but still.... why does almost everyone everywhere seem terrified of not being "accepted" by a certain group of "others"?

Why do people think one should feel "lucky to be alive"? What is the alternative? Is it not death? Why do so few people seem capable of grasping one of the most basic, fundamental, undeniable and obvious facts about life...that dead means dead?

Why would anyone think there could be such a thing as a Christian atheist?

If y'all will kindly explain these to me, I'll find some more stuff I don't get.

TRB