What REALLY Happens in the Space of a Few Seconds
(paraphrased from George Carlin’s Book – Brain Droppings)
This only scratches the surface of what REALLY happens in the quantum mechanical state, or even in the macroscopic sense, but nevertheless ...
A man is seated in a football stadium with a small TV set tuned to the game. The sideline camera takes his picture, and his image travels through the lens, out of the camera, to the truck, to the satellite, to a ground station several miles away, where it is transmitted back into the air, through the small TV set’s antenna, and then to the man’s TV set. He sees himself on the screen. The image travels from the small TV set to his eyes, along the optic nerve, then to his brain where he recognizes himself. His brain sends a signal to the muscles in his arm to start waving. The image travels through the camera, through the lens, to the truck, to the satellite, to another ground station 1000 miles away, where it is retransmitted into the air and picked up by a cable company that sends it to the man’s parents TV set. The image travels from the screen to his mother’s eyes along the optic nerve to her brain, where it references her memory and recognition takes place. Her brain then sends a series of signals to her lungs, throat, lips and tongue, and she says, “Look!! It’s Mike!!”
