Name: Spooky Coincidences?
Uploaded: 2020-03-28T09:01:14.000Z
Duration: 14 min 45 s
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You can practice speaking backwards, so when your words are reversed

their intelligible. But here's something else that is weird.

The digits in the speed of light are exactly the same

as the latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

And, as the anagram genius has revealed, all the world's

a stage but if you rearrange the letters in the meaning of life

or, more pessimistically, the fine game of nil.

hidden messages? Why can a mere coincidence give us chills

When you reverse Neil Armstrong saying 'small step for man'

you can hear what sounds like man will space walk

Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated President John F Kennedy

and this interview he defends the Fair Play for Cuba committee

Now listen to what it sounds like when we reverse him saying

is that a coincidence or a subconscious confession hidden within his own words?

For crying out loud, if anybody says 'and the Fair Play for Cuba',

and then reverses it, it sounds the same.

This app, by the way, is called Virtual Recorder.

It's a really easy way to quickly reverse your own speech.

Matthew Hutson in 'The 7 Laws of Magical Thinking' points out that if you record

it sounds a bit like happy birthday to you

sounds the same, whether spoken forward or rewound,

Pretty cool. But  check out this poem by Karsten Johansson

By the way, some people can speak in reverse on the fly

after this video. It's linked down in the description and it's full of pretty cool coincidence videos.

Apophenia is the perception of connections or patterns

the scene or hearing of things that weren't meant to be there.

For instance, hearing your name being called or your phone ringing

in the sound of running water, or hearing English words

that weren't purposely placed there. Our brains are good at this kind of work,

probably because being hyper attentive to patterns and faces

can save your life. If there's ambiguity as to whether that

thing hiding in the shadows is a threat, or just a shadow,

of threat. Organisms with a healthy sense of Apophenia

live longer, long enough to have kids and raise them

and naturally become the norm. We connect with

faces so well Hutson relates a story of a friend who draws

faces on things she doesn't wanna lose, like her bags.

She says the faces make her less likely to forget about them.

If you like it, you should have put a ring on it, if you like not losing it,

teasing out patterns and faces from random noise

Originally, Apple's iTunes shuffle feature generated complaints from users.

They said that similar songs, or songs from the same artist,

appeared in a string, which, of course, is to be expected

from randomness but it didn't feel random enough.

that avoided totally random sequences that nonetheless

didn't seem random to our pattern loving brains.

As Steve Jobs explained, "we're making it less random

Our impressive ability to imagine patterns also expresses itself when it

and moving images. This dancing Spider-Man animation will

famously sync up with any music you play.

Try it. What kind of black magic is going on here?

Well, as it turns out, most of it is in our heads.

Radiolab reported that Michigan State University explains that the major movements

of dancing animations like this one, or this one,

move at typical song tempos but also contain, like most

dance, various other different related rhythms of movement allowing them to seemingly

We fall prey to this when we reject all the times the animation

doesn't really sync up, focusing instead on the more surprising times

The bizarre pyramid coincidence mentioned earlier

is a lot less bizarre when you consider the fact that we got to control where

and that a number of degrees this precise isn't necessary to locate the pyramid.

By the fourth decimal we're only talking about a matter of a few meters,

so it's easy to make the rest fit the speed of light exactly

and have still picked a point on the pyramid.

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Spooky Coincidences?

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