#watched pot

[rosielindy]

A watched pot may not boil but it does some cool stuff when the oven and microwave are running. 👀😵‍💫

[countryofthecanyons]

Does that wheel in the sky keep on turning? I thought it was supposed to set. Like concrete. Concrete sets. Oh the wheel in the sky keeps on setting. Maybe if I take another picture it will set.

[comedy-is-tragedy]

I fucking hate that ‘ole “a watched pot never boils” adage.

Why is it always right!?

[snacksafterdark]

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[mlcastle]

A watched pot never boils, so it's best to use a thermocouple to do the watching for you.

[butter-and-too-much-bread]

Me: Writes something on a blog/forum/webpage (2 minutes later) Me: Checks page "Please validate my opinions!"

[trihalo42]

Watched Pots and Slow Computers

Watched Pots and Slow Computers:

Things seem to take longer when I'm in a hurry.

This is particularly true when I'm trying to log into my computer to do something, or trying to do something within some game I'm playing. People often assume that it's just adrenalin or my generally hyped up state. The phrase, "A watched pot never boils" relates to how much faster time seems to pass when we're focused on something else.

But in the case of electronics, there is actually a connection between my mental state and the performance of those devices.

I imagine many would say, "Oh great. Now he thinks he can control electronics with his mind". But there is and has been research done that shows slight variations in things based on strong emotional responses from the general population. I'll make reference to two in particular.

Princeton University,  http://noosphere.princeton.edu/  , has "The Global Consciousness Project, Meaningful Correlations in Random Data". I'll quote a small bit from the page.

When human consciousness becomes coherent, the behavior of random systems may change. Random number generators (RNGs) based on quantum tunneling produce completely unpredictable sequences of zeroes and ones. But when a great event synchronizes the feelings of millions of people, our network of RNGs becomes subtly structured. We calculate one in a trillion odds that the effect is due to chance. The evidence suggests an emerging noosphere or the unifying field of consciousness described by sages in all cultures.

The Global Consciousness Project is an international, multidisciplinary collaboration of scientists and engineers. We collect data continuously from a global network of physical random number generators located in up to 70 host sites around the world at any given time. The data are transmitted to a central archive which now contains more than 15 years of random data in parallel sequences of synchronized 200-bit trials generated every second.

Our purpose is to examine subtle correlations that may reflect the presence and activity of consciousness in the world. We hypothesize that there will be structure in what should be random data, associated with major global events that engage our minds and hearts.

Another that has made reference to such is Dr. N.A. Kozyrev, a celebrated Russian astrophysicist who put forward what are considered some controversial theories on how the universe works. There is some detailed reference to him on the Divine Cosmos site owned by David Wilcock, who himself has been featured in some episodes of Ancient Aliens.

http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/books-free-online/20-the-divine-cosmos/95-the-divine-cosmos-chapter-01-the-breakthroughs-of-dr-na-kozyrev

One small quote from there reads,

Even more importantly, the fact that strong emotional energy could also cause a measurable at-a-distance reaction has been repeatedly documented, not just by Dr. Kozyrev but many others, and this is where our concepts of psychic phenomena and consciousness come into the picture.

Such concepts became even bigger news after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the United States, when Dean Radin and his team at the Institute of Noetic Sciences were able to measure a tremendous change in the behavior of computerized random-number generators surrounding the time immediately before and after the attack:

Please reference that page for the graph given showing the effect.

So considering all this, perhaps it's not just my imagination that me being emotionally charged can make things seem to work more slowly around me when I really need them to hurry up. Or maybe I'm just rationalizing things.

[skippyjif]

A watched gif never loads.