Can watching (or not watching) games impact the result?

[winnipegger]

If you haven't watched the game, and haven't checked the result, but the game has concluded, is the outcome determined?

 

[Nogatco Rd]

for the butterfly ripple to make it to the arena it would take a lot things lining up just right.

For example, If I do something as small as buying a beer, then maybe I make someone else have to wait a minute extra in line, which makes that person late to get to their seat, which makes the goalie happen to notice that person's jersey as they go to their seats, which makes the goalie stand an inch further to the left, which effects the next shot on goal bounce into the net instead of off the post.

Shit… I think this is what happened to Heiskanen

 

[gary559]

Is OP Robin Lehner?

 

[Marioesque]

How do we know?

We don't

 

[Mike C]

If you haven't watched the game, and haven't checked the result, but the game has concluded, is the outcome determined?

Of course not!

 

[The Cannon of Tesoma]

Finally some philosophy here.

If our viewing changed the observed reality, then we would be the source of that reality

Be careful! Taking that path leads to solipsism, extreme form of subjective idealism.

 

[Leafblooded]

The only way that you can affect the game is by betting so that the refs will get the result that makes them the most.

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