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I have not yet read the actual article but in this month’s SEED magazine they write about a lab that is doing research on the nature of reality seeking to answer the question “Do we creatre the world just by looking at it?”. You’d think this would be more the type of question to be pondered in a philosophy classroom than a science lab but ever since the advent of quantum physics, the nature of reality has been a hot topic. This got me thinking (uh oh).

Have you ever had this happen to you? You look for something. Its not where you remember - distinctly remember - putting it. You look around the area. Nothing. You look under the cushions. You look under furniture. You check the bathroom to see if you took it with you last time you went up to take a crap. You check the kitchen in case you left it there when making that sandwich that lead to your taking a crap. You even go outside just in case. Nothing. Nowhere to be found. You decide to go back to where you started and you take another look…and there it is.

You wonder, I looked here before, how did I not see that?

 Maybe because it wasn’t there the first time. Maybe because the whosie whatsit you were looking for ceased to exist or fell between the realities or got stolen by fairies. Then, the more you looked for it, the more you thought about it, the more real it became and it came back into existance, or got pulled back from wherever it had gone to…or the fairies brought it back.

This happens all the time.

My grandmother’s mother use to say it was the fairies came and took it and then brought it back. Basically it was the fairies fucking with you (and hard-drinking old Irish woman that she was she probably would have used just those words!).

Or maybe it was reality doing the fucking.