Thursday 23 June 2016

The predictability of the predictable and parallel universes


I know it has nothing to do with the subject


As the British all head off to vote or have voted or are not voting, I was just thinking this is one of those points in the history of a nation where a parallel universe would be damn useful. You see one of the great dilemmas of the stay/leave EU referendum is that no one for sure will ever know exactly what the outcome would have been if instead of stay the leave vote won (or visa-versa although I suspect stay will win by a whisker). You see which ever option wins folk will say in a few months or years . . . . There you go I told you so. . . .  But you can only do that if you know for certain what would have happened if the opposite thing had happened, only it didn’t. . . I hope that makes sense, sort of.

History is scattered with events where a small decision here or there changes the course of world history.  Sometimes it can be something where the consequences of a simple choice cannot be predicted either way. To me the EU referendum is such a choice. We can say many things and make many assessments but if ever there was a good example of Chaos theory in practice it has to be the workings of the European Union. It looks like it is an organised structure but under the surface are a million individuals all doing there bit to make a decent living, pay all the bills, look after their families while trying to hold the whole EU thing together while the politicians and the public complain. Some are honest some have their fingers in the EU till some are efficient and some are completely incompetent, that is the way life works when lots of folk all work together in one organisation. Just look at the National Health Service. I have had more than my fair share of being poked about by the NHS in the past stitching me back together and I can say with some certainty the staff are an eclectic bunch of mixed abilities from the brilliant to the terrible.

Anyway back to the point tomorrow as we wake up and think. . .  OMG we voted to do WHAT?. . . .  don’t worry because in a parallel universe somewhere there is a you that voted the opposite way and has woken up and is thinking. . .  OMG we voted to do WHAT?. . . .  An for a brief moment in time the two universes will converge before heading off in opposite directions never to be the same again.

I would love to see the outcome of both in and out in ten years time so that I could go . . . . well I did not expect that to happen but I don’t think I will. . . Well not the same me anyway and the other me will not tell me a thing (he is as grumpy as I am)   



Ooooooooo sorry damn I got slightly distracted by things so my post is a bit late and it appears the voting is done and the win for stay now predicted . . . . . don’t you just hate the predictability of the predictable. Still in the end a bit of chaos theory will have us saying . . .   OMG WHAT?. . . . but maybe not tomorrow.        

7 comments:

  1. OOOOOOOO I woke up in a parallel Universe, that is a bit odd.

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  2. Me too. What if we all woke up in this new parallel universe and the original universe is empty?
    How do we get back there Rob?
    Not even my 11-in-1 pointy stick (trademark pending) is capable of opening up a rift to other dimensions.....yet.

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    1. I suspect that is the last time anyone lets the public vote for stuff. . . . Although the positive thing is no one can say the vote was a fix.

      If you ask me the stay campaign had all the aces and still lost the game. Folk will recover from the thought of change soon and then we will see what is going to happen.

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  3. I imagine The British desire was to stop being an Umpire and go back to being an Empire.

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    1. OOOOOoooo not Empire Mr ESB. I think we need to think of ourselves as a small nation now and live a quiet life. OK maybe not everyone is ready for that but I am.

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    2. The only -pire I could think of was expire, which kind of means to die, breath out. I try to not worry about anything ever, which is close to impossible, but I am getting much better at it. I thought it was kinda ridiculous that the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3 percent in one day because of Brexit. I saw that someone made up a new word Texit for the state of Texas independence movement, which would most likely never ever happen. I did get to have a brief phone call with my friend who is in prison, so that was a nice treat this week. I think she may be out in about 5 months. I had not heard her voice in almost a year, but we have exchanged a large volume of letters and post cards. When I am the least bit troubled I find great comfort spending time with my dogs and forget everything else.

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    3. IN general dogs are more trustworthy and loyal. I hope you friend is OK and coping.

      The whole Brexit thing is mad. It has taken over the entire news and will take at least two years. . . I (it may only be me) have a feeling it may still not happen

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