Lose something?

This was originally posted on Bikeforums.net by Artkansas. Reprinted by permission -- Roger

I have a theory. It is based on Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Schrodinger's cat.

Being a 3D animator, I see God as "rendering" the universe (in real-time) as I render a 3D scene after making all the objects and assigning all the motion. Like any good programmer, God has algorithms that calculate what needs to be rendered for the universe to exist at any given time. Unneeded things simply aren't rendered to minimize God's work load. Sometimes things get misallocated and aren't rendered when they should be. Most likely your watch got allocated as not necessary to calculate because it was inside your shoe. But when time came to render it again, the watch subroutine had been pushed off the calculation stack. This was subsequently fixed later on. Your distress gave signals to the universe that something had not been properly rendered, and the situation was remedied.

I had a nailfile that had a similar situation. I left it on the left side of my computer. I noticed it missing and searched the table thoroughly. No nail file. A couple of weeks later, the nail file turned up on the right side of my computer, in plain sight.

Go calculate!