SB XLVI PREDICTION (read more).

What's In It for You?
You get the opportunity to compete for your team and demonstrate what a great fan you and your fellow fans are by winning the next Tempt Destiny billboard in support of your team by voting here once per hour - per page. The deal is this. The fans that have cast the most votes for their team commission a billboard in support of their team's SB quest ... and the legacy that goes with it.

What is This About?

The Tempt Destiny experiment is about how direct and indirect selection is used to create a billboard painting in support of a team's SB victory and how that choice predetermines the probability or certainty of the completion of the billboard artwork by painting the football silver to commemorate the trophy won.

Two types of selections to win this:

1. Billboard of Choice, direct selection - The fans that cast the most votes (certain choice) prior to the conference championship games, directly wins the billboard IF that team also makes it to the SB.

2. Billboard of Chance, indirect selection - If option one does not take place, then the SB bound team that happens by chance (probable choice) to have the most votes indirectly wins the billboard. If both SB bound teams have the same vote total, then the indirect choice cannot be made = no Tempt Destiny billboard for this season.

This billboard costs you and your team nothing but the desire to make it happen. Now your team will see if their fans can walk-the-walk and represent them as their fans expect them to be represented ... as winners.

This all began back in January, 1987 when a billboard company asked me if I would be interested in creating artwork for a billboard in support of the NYG SB XXI quest. In keeping with the notion (superstition) of not to presume victory before it happens, the artwork reproduced on the billboard was unfinished. Only after the team completed their season by winning SB XXI could the artwork then be completed by painting the football silver to signify the trophy won.

This cause and effect recipe of a team victory inspiring the completion of a painting was repeated once again in support of the NYG SB XXV quest. This time the billboard was created and on display prior to the beginning of the season (August 1990) and throughout the entire season and into the playoffs. Once again, the team successfully completed their season with another SB victory and once again, another painting was completed in recognition of their success thereby establishing a two-for-two record documented and license by the NFL as the NY Giants Super Bowl Commemorative Series limited edition prints.

When I offered to do a third billboard for the NYG, the owner kindly rejected the offer which set the stage to pass along the destiny of the third billboard over to the fans. In January 2000, the Tempt Destiny competition/experiment was initiated in order to tempt destiny for yet another billboard painting and the victory that goes with it.

After eight consecutive years of conducting this competition/experiment with no "destiny" event taking place, I was ready to call it quits after the 2008 season and accept what had taken place before as a matter of luck. Then the unthinkable happened. Not since SB VII had there been an undefeated team playing in the big game. The 14 point underdog NYG faced undefeated NE in SB XLII. Unlike the first year of this Tempt Destiny competition when the Giants fans failed to rally behind their team's SB XXXV bid (first NYG SB loss), this time around the Giants fans placed the most votes AND their team also made it to the big game. The rest as they say is history - another billboard, another victory, and so yet another painting could then be completed as done twice before.

As the saying goes, "be careful of what you wish for", I got the answer to my question about if the billboard event could be repeated but I found this event raised more questions than answers. Initially I understood the concept of destiny as a philosophical concept. However, an event is in essence a physical property. So I turned to physics for the answers and found no research or answers regarding this field of pre-physics, the study of predetermined events, forthcoming. I spent the next three years searching for an understanding of what had taken place and learned that I was missing a key piece to this puzzle...

TD Billboards of Choice & Chance: This brings us to why there are two types of billboards being offered. From 2000-20010, I was so wrapped up in obtaining evidence of events being predetermined (certain/inevitable) that I ignored its complement (uncertainty/probability). Simply put, how can one know what is "hot" without knowing what is "cold", dry/wet, day/night, certainty/uncertainty, etc. In order to establish evidence of something (hypothesis), you also need to establish its complement (null hypothesis). I once understood choice as a singularity, a single act, and ignored the fact that there are two mutually exclusive and jointly exhaustive types of choices in nature. This is why there are two ways to win the Tempt Destiny billboard for your team.

What I have come to realize is that choice is a dichotomy consisting of direct and indirect selection and that possibilities and the absence of possibilities are the second dichotomy in this equation. What this means is for the fundamental act of selection to exist it also requires possibilities to choose from. Conversely, without the act of selection, possibilities are then uncertain (-, -) and therefore cannot exist (see certainty axis in image below).

For example, fans have been voting for their team by directly placing their votes here at TemptDestiny.com. When a direct selection is made here by voting for your team it predetermines the certainty that your vote has been made. Conversely, when an indirect selection is made it predetermines that what follows is probable. So when fans placed their teams AutoVote URLs in emails or at fan forums (see Tips & Tricks link) or ask friends or family members to vote for their team, these acts indirectly cast votes for their team by having others (probably) do it for them. To address this lack of understanding, I began offering two distinct types of Tempt Destiny billboards beginning with SB XLIV season (Saints billboard).

Billboard of Choice: X = Y, the team with the most votes X also winning its conference championship game Y (direct selection (+, +), 1024-1 odds. Record to date: 3-for-3 (SB XXI, SB XXV, SB XLII). Since 2000 there have been twelve direct selections made, eleven of which resulted in no direct selection X = -Y indicating a second dichotomy is involved (+, -). Read the science section for more detail of how the mechanics of this works.

Billboard of Chance: -X = Y, if a direct selection does not take place, then by default, we will do the next TD billboard for the team that chances to have the most votes -X of the two competing SB teams Y (indirect selection (-, +), 2-1 odds. Record to date: 1-for-2 (SB XLIV, SB XLV). However, there is one other possibility. Just like direct selections can be prevented from taking place when the potential of that selection does not exist. The same holds true for indirect selections if both SB bound teams are tied -X = -Y. This would be like flipping a coin and having it land on its edge (-, -). Without selections there are no potentials and without potentials selections cannot be made.

So there you have it. Everything that can possibly take place (exist) is predetermined by the dichotomy of choice and the dichotomy of chance, i.e., choice chance mechanics. Both universals, selections of potentials, make up a quadchotomy which are inclusive of everything that has taken place, is taking place, and will ever take place... BULL you say? How can such a thing be true?

It is understood that we exist as physical beings governed by universal physical laws. As such, we cannot act in violation of our own physical existence. Therefore, the fact that we are relegated to making only two types of choices does not infer that we are an anomaly of nature, rather, we are a reflection of how nature works. The empirical evidence is irrefutable. This discovery substantiates the following prediction.

PREDICTION: The evidence infers that the CERN experimental research for the Higgs Boson, i.e., God particle, does not exist. Existence is predetermined by the dichotomy of two fundamental acts of selection, not one.

Aah, but is the Tempt Destiny experiment reproducible? Hence, the cup & coin experiment as demonstrated in the image above, see the science page for more details. The cup & coin experiment of dropping a coin directly or indirectly into a cup was conducted live on April 30, 2011, at the American Physical Society (APS) convention, where I presented my research findings of the Tempt Destiny experiment in the manuscript entitled: "Physics of Predetermined Events".

Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System

 

Superstition or Luck? It is easier to think that some things happen because of luck and that we have no control over such things, i.e., indirect selection. This mind set leaves the door open for superstitious unexplainable associations. If you wish to ignore the empirical evidence and what it infers and only go by such associations, then the following facts will be of interest:

• The Giants or Saints have never won a SB without a Tempt Destiny billboard.
• Each time a team initially rejects this gift of support (yes, the billboards are done for FREE), it is followed by that team losing the SB. To date, there has been three such rejections*, NYG, PHI, PIT.
  *NOTE: The 2nd NYG billboard rejection is pending results of SB XLVI.
• Despite having eleven annual opportunities for 31 other teams to be featured on the TD billboard of choice, only one team has been featured?

The first two can easily be discounted as coincidence? The latter association, now that one I find most intriguing because it raises the question - is this event a certainty only for NYG and only a probability for all others?

As you can see there's something in this for everyone. If you're into science and the grand unification theory, the science section is for you. The rest of this site is dedicated to the loyal fans who have helped me to obtain evidence of what destiny is about. As it turns out, William Jennings Bryan's quote (featured at the top of each page) about destiny was pretty close to the mark. However, what he and I took for granted is that you cannot have choice without the chance of having something to choose from. Both the dichotomy of choice and the dichotomy of chance are required for either universal properties to exist.

NOTE: The discernible connection between the billboard event and the subsequent victories are causal in that the team winning the SB causes the completion of the artwork (football painted silver) to take place. It is obvious that billboards cannot win SB games, as such, no correlation is being implied in this regard. After twelve consecutive years of conducting this experiment, a direct selection has only occurred once (SB XLII).

Which team will be on the next Tempt Destiny billboard? The choice is up to you by voting on this page and the rest of the pages here at TemptDestiny.com. Make sure to visit our Tips & Tricks page to find out more ways to vote for your favorite team – SPREAD THE WORD!

Thanks for stopping by.

Manuel Morales
BCC Professor
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