Kyzzyxx

Was there distance before the Big Bang?

Gotta be a dumbass, don'tcha?

Yea, I've been saying the same thing since high school... 35 years ago. Glad to see someone with the same idea.. and more influence than I

My calculations say about 3 minutes?

I agree with you 99% (I don't believe anything 100%, even that I am sitting here typing this). Here is my experience why:

I smoke pot and back on a day in 1983 I started thinking about how often I smoke weed and then fall asleep. I started thinking about how much money I was wasting, and every other con, to getting high and then falling asleep. It bugged me all day. It was like the worst case of a song being stuck in your head. I couldn't stop thinking about that singular issue. After that day forward, whenever I smoke pot, I would get hyper. I would have a tremendous drive to get up and do something. Falling asleep was not possible.

That experience has taught me how to use plasticity as a tool for rewiring my brain, pretty much, at will. You mention the "power to throw the plasticity switch from ‘decline’ to ‘grow.’" I contend that it is more than just a general on/off switch, and that it is an actual process anyone can learn to use to,essentially, re-program their brain at will. Do you have any experience with similar scenarios like this during your research and/or have you considered this as a possibility and/or what is your experience with it, if so?

Keep pushing on!

Followup: After several years it started to decline. After a couple decades it got to the point where I didn't fall asleep, but I would not get hyper either. After another couple decades it is just now starting to get to the point where I can fall asleep while high, but that could also be cause I am just getting old.

EDIT: This AMA deserves a lot more attention than it is getting