Gary O'Reilly

Wouldn't that have been true before?

Never, ever.

Burned at the stake.

Right.

If a Big Bang happens in the multiverse and there's no one there to see it, did it really happen?

What makes you think I actually showed up for algebra class?

You're assuming facts that are not in evidence, sir.

And he, I mean, honestly, that's demonstrable now.

We actually have, you know, psychological experiments that have been conducted to show how we actually do live in our own distinct realities based on our experience and where we are and how we are receiving the information of the world itself.

And one of those things that is most, I'll say, stark is how we,

Wow, Chuck, you wrote that really quick, man.

You work fast, brother.

If you change the chemistry of something, you haven't lost any information because the information has changed.

But yet the thing itself is no longer the thing.

For instance, you've set wood on fire, okay?

You end up with charred remains and smoke and flames.

Yes.

The smoke is part of that information, but it's something else now.

The flames are part of that information, but they're something else now.

They're the release of energy and heat.