We are religion...
Back when I was but a mere student of physics (as opposed to now when I have nothing to do with my chosen academic subject) a few of us decided to take a break from our usual distracted pondering (e.g. taking the piss out of the art students in the next block while playing online games rather than work on our coursework) we started pondering the uncertainty principle. This was bread and butter to one chap who wanted to go on to study quantum teleportation (and did as far as I know, PhD by now most likely), and essentially worked out as the following:

You can know the position of an object or its velocity but not both at once when you start getting seriously accurate about it.

The uncertainty principle, while sounding cool, means that anything may or may not exist.

The act of observation changes that being observed.

Hideously flawed though it is, the conclusion reached was that you are god. The only thing that you can conclusively prove exists is yourself, by looking at anything you fix its point and space in the universe and change it to boot! Of course, we all got quite drunk and this theory grew in popularity amongst the class. So remember, the next time a person wants to strike up a conversation about religion remember that you are god, just like everyone else.

On a personal note, I do believe. I believe in myself, love myself, and respect myself. If more people did that and took more responsibility for their own lives they might have better ones.
(Darklyte Religion's for people who don't think they're god, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 18:26, 2 replies)

I don't believe in myself.
I know a guy who said he saw me once, but he was probably just trying to impress some girls.
( baw__bag contains traces of nuts on, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 18:35, closed)

I believe that you mean momentum
not velocity, strictly speaking ;)
( greedyostrich Cheese is evil! Cheddar is VOODOO!, Wed 25 Mar 2009, 19:50, closed)