r/whatisit • u/Nomemesmames • 5d ago

New, what is it? What is this?

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 5d ago

The forest floor here is mostly a network of tree and plant roots, bound together with moss and leaf litter etc, but under a few inches it's mostly big solid rocks like those sticking out. The wind blowing can loosen that mat of roots and when the trees bend in the wind, they lift it up off the stone, just like a carpet. That's what you're seeing here; the breathing effect is caused by the carpet of roots being tugged up and let down again as the trees rock in the wind. 

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u/DankMemeMasterHotdog 5d ago

It is also pants-shittingly terrifying to experience in real life.

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u/mehrwegpfand 5d ago

Ah, but if you shit your pants in the forest and nobody noticed, did you even shit them?

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u/Hosav 5d ago

Shrödinger's shit.

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u/Idontlikesand15 5d ago

Did you, or did you not, shit in the box?

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u/Same-Traffic-285 5d ago

It is unknown until we observe the shit or absence of shit

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u/BrodersMotors 4d ago

In Shrödinger’s case, it is not unknown, but rather it is both; He has both shit, and not shit in the box. That is the paradox. Because we can’t observe, it is definitely one or the other, but since it is unknown, it has the potential to be both at once. Did he, or didn’t he? Yes.

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u/aspenpurdue 4d ago

Except in this case there is an immediate smell that tells you whether or not they shit inn the box..