| Built to Spill – In Your Mind Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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It seems to me that a lot of the lines reference quantum theory and some other physics. Maybe I'm just making this up, but it seems like built to spill meant this. Here are some lines that caught my eye. coincidence gave a confession that no one's allowed to forget -------------------- This could refer to whether information can really be destroyed, such as (possibly) in a black hole. -------------------- I don't wanna give the impression that predestination is set -------------------- Predestination is a central issue in quantum physics, where at some levels, events are random, yet at some levels, they are deterministic. -------------------- the distance will increase the danger where certainty's never enjoyed -------------------- "where certainty's never enjoyed" could be heisenberg's uncertainty principle, which states that the closer you know a particle's position, the less you know about it's momentum, and vice-versa. Hence, "the distance will increase the danger", or uncertainty. -------------------- observing the process will change it and afterwards even if you subconsciously rearrange it it doesn't seem any less true -------------------- This one could be taken right out of a quantum physics textbook. In quantum physics, observation is vital to deciding what outcome will occur. Physicists have "rearranged" quantum events, but they always end up being true, even in absurd cases of rearragement. -------------------- when magnifications explore there slowly emerges a pattern the details you normally ignore you notice really what matters -------------------- This is a basic process of science in general. One looks deeper into something, finding patterns in things you couldn't or wouldn't see before. And then, you notice what really matters, or the theory, etc. that explains it. Quantum physics is looking deeper into the macroscopic world of other physics, and seeing odd patterns at the atomic scale ("the details you normally ignore"). -------------------- there isn't a time or a place only an ebb and a flowing a permanent repeating space occuring, connecting and growing -------------------- This seems like the elimination of absolute time and space in both theories of relativity. There is no such thing as absolute space or time; everything is relative. Also, "a permanent repeating space" sounds like the idea that our universe is not only permanent (always existed/extisting), and that it is infinite in size. "occuring, connecting, and growing" sounds like general relativity, in which time and space themselves are constantly warped by their contents. -------------------- As a final note, some people believe quantum theory is at the basis of consciousness, hence "in your mind". |
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