Nietzsche

I think I've already posted quite enough today, but I'm sort of bored. I'm going to a movie with Matt tonight, but not until seven. I really need to call him though.

I've been plowing through Nietzsche. I think it's really interesting... so far I've discovered he doesn't believe in morals, his philosophies are totally anti-moral, he believes Christianity is anti-life. He believes the world is subjective (like I was going on about at the beginning of this blog) and how science (along with religion) is a means by which to avoid truth. He believes optimism was actually born out of affliction, and pessimism is a good thing of being full of life.

Mostly I've realized Einstein and him would not get along. Einstein believed in concrete, universal facts that worked on everything for everyone, very anti-existentialism. There's this phenomenon that on a quantum level this can obstruct themselves. When photons are shone through a slit, bars show up, meaning some photons hit something, but what? Only answer is themselves. So some scientists said that there's an infinite amount of universes out there, and all the possibilities of placements of the object are occurring in all the universes. Some scientists say (this Copenhagen guy started it) the object has no position until someone sees it, which sort of goes in line with existentialism. This new guy based a theory on Einstein's ideas that any object warps the gravitational field around it, and says that for a really small amount of time (the smaller the object, the longer the time) the object wobbles until the energy required to maintain separate gravity fields makes it become fixed. They haven't proved that yet but they're working on it. Orthodox quantum mechanics says that an object does several things at once, interfering with itself finally to show no change, so it is not determinable which way the object went (see why I love quantum physics? I would love for those rules to apply to me!). Anyway, I'm getting really off topic. What I was saying is Einstein once said "I'd like to think the moon is there whether I see it or not" one time. So Einstein and what he believed in was totally against Nietzsche and existentialism.

Also, while reading Nietzsche, I find it interesting how occasionally several philosopher's collide on an opinion, like objectivism and existentialism have a couple (very few I know but still) similar beliefs, also Kant, even though he seems opposite Rand. Speaking of Ayn Rand I got my essay-winning money in the mail and was happy. :-)

Well, okay, I'm done droning on about philosophy and quantum physics... I think that my beliefs are a bizarre mix of Christianity, existentialism, and objectivism. Don't seem combinable, but they work for me.