sosglobe.com — You probably think you?d notice if all the objects around you started moving, but research at Oxford University published today in Current Biology shows that in certain circumstances people do not even notice if a room grows to four times its size.
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auandcsMar 29, 2006
Still no cure for cancer...
osjprMar 29, 2006
boy, aren't some people stupid, then? If I saw an aircraft trying to land on the road I would leave the f*cking road.
ehardonMar 29, 2006
"..they sayThat [eHardOn's huge wang]Grew three sizes that day!And the minute his [wang] didn't feel quite so tight,He whizzed with his load through the bright morning light."Little Cindy-Lou Who couldn't possibly have ignored the evidence of her own eyes.
mike_pMar 29, 2006
@tonage: No one is attacking religion... while this doesn't specifically mention religion, it has everything to do with religion in the sense that people retain "faith" in something they choose not (or simply refuse to) notice. It kind of makes it easy for someone to draw a comparison to how humans on earth came to be. Were we products of our solar system with clues such as dinosaurs, the Yucatan meteorite crater and many many other forms of evidence? ... or were we created by God, as said in a book that has been passed down and revised throughout the generations of mankind?Not taking sides, but the article DOES bring up the notion...
chigazeMar 29, 2006
Simply increasing the size of the room would not change the relative size of the shadows in the room. They would change the relative size of the shadows to you but then in the real world shadows are constantly changing around us and for the most part we ignore them.
tonageMar 29, 2006
- well because people didnt evolve DUH! i mean we were intelegently designed to not notice stuff like this.I was referring to this comment. I am assuming he is being sarcastic. I was not talking about the story itself.
tonageMar 29, 2006
- Not taking sides, but the article DOES bring up the notion...Actually, the story does not bring up the notion. You just did. A flaw in someone's perception of a virtual fake room has absolutely nothing to do with faith. I don't even see this as a flaw in human judgement. It shows more of a flaw in virtual reality. Because if I was in a real room that got that much bigger, I would know.
gigglestickMar 29, 2006
Well, since communism (at least in the USSR and in the PRC) officially declared atheism to be superior, I guess you could say it is a religious belief. Belief that God does not exist is a "religious" belief, since it can't be proven that he does not exist, any more than it can be proven he does (unless he shows up or something).If you don't agree, then consider this scenario. A hot chick sends you an email asking if you want to go out on a date with her. You don't send her an email declining, but you don't respond at all. Even though you have not taken action, you have.
dollarbillyallDec 16, 2006
Being able to hear the room gives our brains tremendous amount of clues for spatialization--this study ignores them. Not applicable to real life (unless you're deaf or are in an anechoic chamber), but interesting nonetheless.