It's the same with houses. They invented houses to lock you in and adjust outside world.
You might like the 2022 Nobel Prize in physics.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-universe-is-not-locally-real-and-the-physics-nobel-prize-winners-proved-it/
Our world doesn't believe in that newfangled UDMF nonsense. Give me silent teleporters or give me death.
Elevators exist to give enough time to load in the next floor.
That's why I use only elevators like that:
Paternoster elevators!
I always think of what my dog thinks of elevators. She knows you get in it, get out, and you're somewhere else, but does she understand it in the same way as a car? Or more like pure magic? Because in a car, she can see it moving, and going somewhere else, she doesn't just teleport there... Idk, shower thoughts, I guess.
Same goes for medicine in general. You take a pill, and headache goes away. How did that happen? Ask a pharmacist/biochemist/etc. Everyone else might just intuitively think of it as magic.
What about phone calls then? How does your voice travel so far? Feels pretty magical, doesn’t it?
There are a lot of transparent elevators. But perhaps those are real elevators, and the others are transporters.
Yeah, i might also remember seeing one of those, but i think its just my mind playing tricks on me.
You've never seen what's at the bottom of a lake? Could be dinosaurs. You've never seen what's on the other side of the moon. Could be space nazis.
Oddly enough I have. Sometimes it is dinosaurs like alligators or turtles. Most space Nazi's are dead but they did help the US get to space and the moon.
Are glass elevators not common where you live?
Yea, no there are some. Just forgot about it. Don't see them often.
Never occurred to me.
Way too many of these where I live, leaving absolutely no room for the imagination in terms of how they work.
There are so many of these it makes more sense to modernize the existing carriages to bring them up to modern safety standards.
The simple cage around the shaft remains, leaving the machinery completely open to inspection for anyone and everyone.
I think you would enjoy the film Pi (1998), by Aronofsky. 👋
Vertical teleporters then 🙃
Can even be used as an illusion of a teleport!
"Fuck, he knows. Yes, send out two agents and a cleanup crew."
Now add the Teleport paradox on top of that and you are golden.
Anything is possible in a simulation.
Reminds me of a episode of Dr who where a elevator was actually just a teleporter.
We had a "glass" elevator in a mall around here back when I was a kid, but everyone knows their just fancy LED screens. The same thing don't move. That lurch you feel? That's the teleportin' happening
Well, that is how it works in Portal.
Beam me up, Scotty!
Might want to watch the 10th kingdom the trolls have the same thoughts.
A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
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