Thai minds at work
My Thai boys were up till dawn talking about the latest discoveries in quantum theory. Chalerm was exited about parallel universes.
- When you enter a gay club in Thailand, asked Chalerm, would you agree that normal logic and laws of behaviour no longer apply?
- That is true, I said.
- That’s because it is a parallel universe, said Chalerm. – The door to the club is a wormhole. If you can’t find the wormhole again you will be stuck in the new universe forever.
The Prince of Khon Kaen supported the idea that we affect the universe by observing it. There is no such thing as a quick, innocent peek. Once you look at it you force the universe to change, says Prince.
- It is like entering a Thai government office where everyone is asleep, said Prince.
- By observing the officials you have interrupted their slumber and forced them to react. The universe is like that too. It doesn’t appreciate being disturbed.
Lek the Queen of Si Saket explained how the uncertainty principle works in practice.
- I call it “ignorance is universal bliss”, said Lek. - A Thai boy has not done anything bad until he is caught. You, the farang observer, create the negative incident by observing it. If you had not looked, it would not have happened.
- But I want to know what is going on, I said.
- It is the same with asking your boyfriend questions, said Lek. - If you had not asked, it would not have happened. What you don’t know doesn’t exist. This is the Thai way and we can’t understand why you Westerners are so eager to know everything when you only upset the cosmos.
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November 26th, 2007 at 3:48 pm
As a metaphor, “the door to a gay club in Thailand is a wormhole,” is just beautiful.
November 26th, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Hmmmmm……I’m sure someone said something logical….I just dunno’ where???
November 26th, 2007 at 6:06 pm
But I am sure they would understand that string theory is the basis of all universal constants and without them the thongs on the boys on the beach at Phuket would not stay up.
November 26th, 2007 at 8:17 pm
There is this theory being thrown about in the underground comments to this blog: that SF was once a physics professor at an English boarding school for boys. That he longs for the educated life, where committees meet endlessly accomplishing nothing, and the turn of the seasons is interrupted by the glimpse of a youthful torso. The theory must be correct, for it explains everything.
-Former Farang
November 26th, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Former Farang, well done. You have presented a Grand Unified Theory of Everything.
November 26th, 2007 at 11:56 pm
Someone’s definitely on something here. I’m just not quite sure who, and i’m not quite sure what…
November 27th, 2007 at 12:37 am
And the url to this website is a wormhole. I was never the same after I started reading (and became addicted to) your blog!
November 27th, 2007 at 4:09 am
I had no idea the Queen of Si Saket was such a deep
thinker….but it does explain the phenomenon….
Farang does not need to know….or as we say….
what you don’t know, won’t hurt you….,etc…
November 27th, 2007 at 6:55 am
Well, what can I say? Looking at this entry makes me think that my professional competence in matters of theoretical physics is going to be warmly welcomed in Thailand, when I go there in December (for the first time).
Thanks a lot for this blog, Silom Farang! It’s a pleasure to read!
November 28th, 2007 at 12:57 am
But I’m curious about this idea…
If a Thai boy cooks on a hibachi in the apartment, and the Farang boyfriend doesn’t know about it, then in the Farang boyfriend’s universe, the Thai boy did not use the hibachi in the apartment.
But if this is true, then why does the Farang boyfriend see the burnt walls and the Thai boy does not?
-Whystler
November 28th, 2007 at 1:21 am
I asked the gay boy who works in the 7-Eleven in the soi. He said:
Usually wormholes to other universes are believed to be sealed so information can not pass from one universe to the other. But Hawkins showed that information in the form of light and energy can leak from black holes, something which was not thought possible. In a similar way information may possibly leak from the hibachi universe to the farang’s universe, materialising as burned walls and a funny smell.
The gay boy also said the three for the price of two chocolate promotion has ended.
December 4th, 2007 at 1:58 am
I read about “How I met my boyfriend” story and I thought, wow, it ended on a sad note with chalerm(sp?) slamming the door and you locking him out.
But I read this entry and I found Chalerm again. Was I relieved! lol
I mean, who do not like ‘happily lived ever after’ kind of story.
Now a big smile is pasted on my silly face.
-goes to read more-