So a few days ago a read a thread in which someone had brought up a point about what we would consider the guiding hand of God or pure chance. If we flipped a coin a bunch of times and it was exactly fifty percent heads and fifty percent tails, that we flipped a bunch and it turned up one hundred percent one side, or that we flipped it a bunch and it spelled out a message in binary.
That got me thinking, so I sequenced all 248 variations of a standard byte (8-bit binary code) and aligned them with letters a-z with "spaces" between each alphabet (OO1OO11O is a K, O1O1OOO1 is a space, 1O1O1O11 is an A, just to give you an idea)
248 is not evenly divisible by 26, so instead of cutting the alphabet short at the end, I just wrote in A,E,I,and O, since vowels really make the word.
I will flip an old New Zealand twenty cent piece (it has a kiwi on the back
), which I have labeled 1(on the heads side) and 0(on the tails side).
Here's a visual if you need it.
Anyway I will be flipping this coin 800 times (enough for 100 characters, spaces included), I will allow it to land undisturbed onto my carpet (as in I will not catch it and flip it onto the back of my hand, or let it bounce against other objects) Recording the results as I go. When I'm finished I will separate the numbers into 8-bit sections, then compare the results with my chart.
For safety's sake I will also run the result through an internet binary translator. I will also take the inverse of my results (1=0, 0=1) (in case there's some confusion)
If the results still aren't clear I will run it through an anagram solver.
Any language will work as long as it uses English letters, but I can't do an anagram for a non-English language.
Here's where the prayer request comes in. I very much want this to work, but I'm afraid, as an atheist, I am incapable of praying with any kind of sincerity. If I don't believe, I really can't pray that well can I? I assure you I will try, but I would also like a bunch of people to be praying sincerely with me, to make sure that God at least knows about my little activity.
I know I'm going to hear someone say that you can't test God and that prayer doesn't work that way, but listen up. I'm not testing God. If all that comes out of this is random gibberish, then that proves absolutely nothing. For all I know he could have been sleeping in late and didn't hear the phone ring.
However if God actually decides to respond (especially coherently) then that goes a great way in proving that he does exist, or that at least something supernatural is willfully affecting the flips of my coin.
Regardless of the results, I will post them in the physical sciences section of the society forum.
I will be commencing the flippary tomorrow at noon, GMT+12
Please pray for my success.
That got me thinking, so I sequenced all 248 variations of a standard byte (8-bit binary code) and aligned them with letters a-z with "spaces" between each alphabet (OO1OO11O is a K, O1O1OOO1 is a space, 1O1O1O11 is an A, just to give you an idea)
248 is not evenly divisible by 26, so instead of cutting the alphabet short at the end, I just wrote in A,E,I,and O, since vowels really make the word.
I will flip an old New Zealand twenty cent piece (it has a kiwi on the back
), which I have labeled 1(on the heads side) and 0(on the tails side).Here's a visual if you need it.
Anyway I will be flipping this coin 800 times (enough for 100 characters, spaces included), I will allow it to land undisturbed onto my carpet (as in I will not catch it and flip it onto the back of my hand, or let it bounce against other objects) Recording the results as I go. When I'm finished I will separate the numbers into 8-bit sections, then compare the results with my chart.
For safety's sake I will also run the result through an internet binary translator. I will also take the inverse of my results (1=0, 0=1) (in case there's some confusion)
If the results still aren't clear I will run it through an anagram solver.
Any language will work as long as it uses English letters, but I can't do an anagram for a non-English language.
Here's where the prayer request comes in. I very much want this to work, but I'm afraid, as an atheist, I am incapable of praying with any kind of sincerity. If I don't believe, I really can't pray that well can I? I assure you I will try, but I would also like a bunch of people to be praying sincerely with me, to make sure that God at least knows about my little activity.
I know I'm going to hear someone say that you can't test God and that prayer doesn't work that way, but listen up. I'm not testing God. If all that comes out of this is random gibberish, then that proves absolutely nothing. For all I know he could have been sleeping in late and didn't hear the phone ring.
However if God actually decides to respond (especially coherently) then that goes a great way in proving that he does exist, or that at least something supernatural is willfully affecting the flips of my coin.
Regardless of the results, I will post them in the physical sciences section of the society forum.
I will be commencing the flippary tomorrow at noon, GMT+12
Please pray for my success.
Praying for you
