[Acting Like Godot]

Why don't you ask David Bohm? After all, he's your favourite kind of guy, a scientist (he even helped to build the world's first atomic bomb). According to Bohm, the little numbered balls spinning in the lottery machine are made of subatomic particles popping in and out of existence.

Also, according to his scientific theory of nonlocality at the quantum physical level, how exactly the little numbered balls pop in and out of existence can be determined by nonlocal events (eg a man sitting in a room 1,000 miles away, thinking to himself "I need the money, I need the money").

In fact, according to Bohm's theory, how the little numbered balls pop in and out of existence cannot not be determined by nonlocal events.

Then according to Fred Alan Wolf, another PhD-in-Physics chap whom I've already introduced you, the little numbered balls are not real .... unless they are being observed by a consciousness. If there is no consciousness focusing on the little balls, they simply don't exist.

Maybe that's what Bohm means by "popping out of existence". Hmmm. Since the balls wouldn't even exist at all unless a consciousness was focusing on them, I wonder what other effect that the consciousness could have on the balls. What if, for example, the consciousness were to say to itself: "I need the money .... I need the money .... "

Bohm's friend, Albert Einstein, is even stranger - he thinks that alternate dimensions could exist! Goodness me, if you can believe that, ANYTHING could be explained. Maybe every guy who really wants to win the lottery will get to win it, but in a different dimension. Boy, that must mean that there are many, many different dimensions.

No wonder Albert Einstein said that there could be an infinite number of dimensions in existence. Alas, superstring theory currently says that there are only up to 10 or 11 different dimensions. If that's right, only 10 or 11 people can win the first prize in the same lottery. That sounds weird, huh.

Or maybe all these folks - Einstein, Bohm, Wold etc - are all just crazy. You'd better stick to reading Steve Pavlina's articles on how to effectively manage your time.

"Ahh, time," says Einstein. "My fourth dimension. I've always wondered how to manage it well."

These quantum physicists - they're all talking nonsense. I'm getting a headache. Next time I'm just gonna stick to simple stuff like Jesus and Buddha. Here's something from DzogChen Buddhism:

".... the energy of an individual is essentially without form and free from duality. What appears as a world of apparently external phenomena, is the energy of the individual him or herself. There is nothing external or separate from the individual. Everything that manifests in the individual's field of experience is a continuum. This is the 'Great Perfection' that is discovered in Dzogchen practice."

Nothing is external or separate from the individual. Golly ... that sounds like those little numbered balls could be part of the same guy sitting on the chair going "I need the money, I need the money."