You're curious, I like that about you
or maybe you didn't get here on your own, either way......
Here are some fun thought experiments I thought we might run through.
The Chicken and The Egg
Thought Experiment: The Chicken and the Egg
People have asked forever, “Which came first — the chicken or the egg?”
It’s one of those questions that sounds profound because it seems to force a choice. But the real trick of the question is that it’s built on a false premise.
The chicken and the egg are not opposites; they are the same thing observed at two different points in time. They’re part of one continuous loop — potential becoming form, and form returning to potential.
If you freeze the frame and measure at one moment, you’ll call it an egg.
If you measure again a little later, you’ll call it a chicken.
But you’re still looking at the same system — the same line of life, just in motion.
That’s the hidden lesson: what we call “first” or “last,” “cause” or “effect,” “real” or “imagined” — all depend on when we choose to look. Time is the variable that gives the illusion of separation.
In truth, it’s always both.
The chicken is the egg, the egg is the chicken — one seen in potential, the other in realization.
And that’s how life works: everything is one thing, just seen at different stages of becoming.
Coming Soon: The Quantum and the Box
Check back soon for the next thought experiment — The Quantum in the Box.
It’s a simple question with a complicated punchline:
What does it mean to be a quantum in a box?
And what does it mean just to be the box?
The truth — if there is one — is that we’re not entirely sure what either means.
That’s the joke.
Because every time we think we’ve found the answer, it loops back to the same place:
everything means nothing, and nothing means everything.
I feel like I've given away enough examples that you might be able to figure this one out, it's been discussed for ages.
