The Matrix - one of the most successful science fiction films of recent years ...
Unlike other films of this genre does this film trilogy, not another planet, not only in the future, and a plot level, instead "our normal" reality, except it is the movie is not for real, but a computer simulation. Thus, all people of our world "kept happy" in reality machines as an energy source tapped duration sleepers whose brain by him fooled is that man as an individual in one with all the details and possible sensory-equipped world lives - the matrix - and this world's just our perceived as real life reality.

This idea - as absurd as it may sound at first - has a vital, fascinating property: Despite all this knowledge about our world, we can not in principle possible to exclude such a possibility in principle. This does not necessarily mean that I or anyone else believes, but on the other hand, we have to realize that it would be possible, at least, that our interpretation of the world, ultimately this is only just - an interpretation - and thus to be wrong.

Plato's Cave

This Plato tried nearly two and a half thousand years to make us understand. His cave says ultimately the same as the Matrix: In this parable, grow attached to chairs a cave on people and everything they see what a wall of the shadows of things or actions reflect on the backs of these people done in by these can thus be seen themselves. Because they know the world only as they come inevitably to the conclusion that this wall "the world" is that exist in this world, "Shadow" and move around, talk to each other (through the wall of sound is reflected, it seems as as if the voices come from the shadows), and that it otherwise would. If you were to tell them the truth, they could ultimately hardly believe this, because it goes beyond their experience level out and thus exceed the limits of their previous thinking was.

Virtual Realities

And why would this world be a computer game? Yes, exactly. Or something else that exceeds our imagination. This appears to the computer game is actually less far-fetched, even if one of the first generation of computer games (let's say the Packman era) with advanced three-dimensional simulations compares. And now you think about how such simulations will probably look like in 10, 20 or even 100 or 1000 years, perhaps with round helmet and 3D motion a la Wii console or direct connection to the central nervous system. Someone who would hinengeboren in such a world, and knows nothing else, would have no chance that you will not be regarded as a reality.
Some further food for thought:
1) In the Pokemon game my son is the Pokemon world, through which the player is an island. Why? Well, this round has a natural boundary (the sea), so you need not simulate endlessly wide world, which would not have to do with finite programming. What is the equivalent of an island in three dimensions? That's right, a ball, a planet ...
2) All computer simulations have an inherent common: The system clock is the CPU is not really continuous movements, but ultimately only discrete, that is screened, sequences. The fineness of this grid is indeed already at our computers far beyond the limits of perception, but in principle, always present. And our world? Is not it finally continuous sequences, which would be a rebuttal? No, due to an equivalence of energy and time follows from the Planck's constant for the energy that the time is quantized in our world, just like in a computer system.

Higher dimensions and parallel universes

If we leave now, however, the computer simulations. Also in thousands of years old doctrines - such as in Buddhism - they came through deep meditation to the realization that the world is an illusion (especially the separation into independent parts, which also each individual is one, instead, everything is connected to everything, a single unit).

Our modern science has in recent decades increasingly come to realize that it is a real understanding of the nature of things much further away than we had assumed previously. And here it is far from just such seemingly mundane things like what consciousness is or how and why it controls our reality, to our health.

Sun physicists go largely from the fact that our universe 10 - or 11-is-dimensional, since according to string theory, only that number of dimensions, the vibrations of "strings" from which arise should matter all right frequencies can have mathematically the . For these frequencies in turn derives from the energy level of the string and therefore the type of elementary particle it represents. Of these dimensions, however, are just unfolds us the familiar three spatial dimensions, the others are invisible because they are rolled up in a minute space, the Big Bang might not have expanded as the other three. Or our world is a 3-brane, a three-dimensional subspace of a higher-dimensional world on the action and interaction of certain particles and forces "stuck".

Other theories assume that there is an infinite parallel universes are many: First, could this all possible outcomes of a particle wave function of the realized (see my article of life in the multiverse - which is why modern physics to be immortal, we have ). The bubble theory (or inflation model), however, considers it possible that infinite universes spatially separated many and through expanding "false vacuum") nebeneinandner exist (and this in a rapidly expanding universe in which embedded universe like a bubble exists any. Since there could be due to the uncertainty principle but at the time of the big bang (or the beginning of this world) is not really an infinite number of distinct output states, could conclude that, with an infinitely large number of universes, I would like some also exist (and not only in some, these "few" would turn even infinitely many, which in turn means that any possibility of my decisions would be implemented anywhere in a perfect universe).

Then there is the question of dark matter and dark energy. Man, the total matter and energy of our universe with some accuracy to calculate unfortunately, however, a value that is much higher than the known matter and energy of all the galaxies of our universe - missing about whopping 70%! Of this matter and Enrgie - known as dark as can be seen from her previously measured or nothing - almost nothing is known. Be Kind Rewind, is not it?

Conclusion

I assume that most people kind of thought or approaches are unknown. What is clear, however, make a conclusion must be that our world can be anything and we are certainly far from being able to understand them. What does this mean for yourself - so if you want to paranormal things in God, in a computer game where you collect karma points, or to the infinite possibilities of its own or something to believe - everyone must decide for themselves. Since it is neither science fiction nor physics in the near future to give an answer.

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Since some time in the U.S. known platform Rotten Neighbor ( rottenneighbor.com ) now makes extensive as in Germany, that is, it is also possible for our area, and all the web related to rate each others, or to assess negative is positive. Rotten Neighbor is this, click on Google Maps, I say see a section of the map, may in this zoom as I want (to the famous "I--almost see-all" resolution) and I need then only to the house of my Click to others, and already I can about this a positive or destructive comment drain which would henceforth be visible to everyone. (It has yet to register for writing a Comments on Rotten Neighbor, who denounced sees only the nickname of the informer). Of course, other comments on this comment, so confirm it or to express a different opinion. Always along the lines of the platform "Locate, rate and share."

This refers to the Web 2.0 spirit in its purest form: flowing information that someone is an a ..., it will soon know the whole world. On the other hand, the issues are also very clear: How can you protect yourself? What if you find one day be that bad and there are false rumors spread about oneself? It should be clear that a rumor once started - even if it is invented to 100% - very difficult to establish again in the world.

It is still in my quiet neighborhood on the platform, ie although there are already several entries, but underneath is no one I know of. But I read that one more street lives a stalker who allegedly molested several times girls sexually.

Probably can not stop such developments (although several initiated by data protection procedures are already underway), and of course there is also a great positive potential in such a way. Ultimately, more and more plays a role in the concept of responsibility: What about the consequences of my actions? What I refrain, therefore, to add others not wanted or unwanted potential damage? I just hope that we succeed parents, our schools, our society, build a corresponding sense of responsibility.

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Today I was surfing on the side of 20q.net , the one against the program takes up on, trying to find out which concept you just thought up has. So I think I made a term - say "Guitar" or "fennel" - and the program just tries this term means a maximum of 20 questions to find out. So you get a question like "Is it bigger than a loaf of bread" and must click on the most appropriate answer (eg yes, no, sometimes, sometimes, probably not, etc. - see Figure below). In my case came based on a neural network software in fact after 19 questions the right answer, "Guitar," which surprised me but, because of the questions until then seemed to be little close to it ("Is it flat?" "Will it be hot?", ...). Try it out, was quite entertaining.

-> Click here to 20q.net (opens in new window)

Short instructions: first language (think of German "), enter gender, age and country, will do the trick.

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Physicist recall experiments, by the outcome they hope to gain insight on the nature of our world. To expedite such as particles in particle accelerators kilometers to nearly the speed of light to capture the collision of these particles in the resulting new particles.
Another of physicists proposed experiment, however, would not require billions of expensive equipment and still allow significant conclusions about the universe. Unfortunately, the physicist must, however, to play Russian roulette, so to put a loaded gun to his temple, in which only one chamber is filled with a ball, and pull the trigger several times, and every time he turns the drum at random. Adoption Is a current modern physics, the experiment would have the leading physicists survive the experiment, no matter how many times he would perform in a row. Thus, the physicist would have a proof of his own immortality, and yet would flow in the lab a lot of blood. How so? First some background.

This experiment has a profound source: More and more physicists suspect that we live in a multiverse, a universe in which there is not only a reality but a number. This assumption has a decades-long history, since it ultimately derives from the many of us from school famous double-slit experiment back. Bombarding you: two parallel column with a particle - such as photons - thus yields on a screen behind a characteristic Photo light pattern, a so-called diffraction pattern. That pattern suggests a rather paradoxical fact: A single particle can be common sense to pass in this experiment, either one or the other slit, but it seems actually to pass both. A particle can thus be not only one but at several places at the same time. (The famous Heisenberg uncertainty principle has to do that here too).

In the so-called Copenhagen interpretation was attempted in 1927 to resolve this paradox, by specifying that a particle in an infinite number of resident places first and only in the case of measuring its position for a "decision". This interpretation, however, for many physicists are increasingly no longer tenable. You suspect that the particle stays simultaneously in an infinite number of positions that are randomly distributed according to the wave function.

And if each particle infinitely often exists, there is also constructed from any particles of matter - we are about ourselves - in an infinite number of versions. The wacky-sounding conclusion is therefore that each of us infinitely often exists, where each version appears in a separate "dimension". This is not about space-time dimensions, but co-existing realities. These realities emerge each time to "decide" the particle must. So I try to determine its position, it chooses the particles for a possible position in this reality, each new location is realized in a different Realtät.

For the above experiment with the Russian Roulette, this means that there are of course still trying all possible outputs. Consequently, the physicists will eventually catch the ball and die. However, the possibility exists that he was 20 or even 100 times in a row lucky, it is unlikely, but the probability is greater than zero. Now, if all possible decisions are implemented, there is thus at least a reality in the lives of the physicist. And in that he will find himself inevitably, since he dies in all other realities, so that for him, only this one remains. He will feel anything like this or know that he died almost every time, he will say is that he is still intact and always worked out the experiment. This is necessarily so for him, although eyewitnesses of the experiment have him in dozens of other realities seen die. Therefore, this experiment is not to empfeheln to imitate, you will survive it but from their point of view, but they will lose their fellow human beings in most realities.

Spins one that thought to the end, it is clear that the physicists will continue to survive any misfortune in his life in at least one Realtät, it will necessarily true to its reality. And even the very unlikely possibility that an agent is found to increase life expectancy in arbitrary dimensions is possible and thus also arriving in a reality version. Thus, in 100 or 1000 years, the physicists found again in this very reality.

Conversely, the fact that we have survived in our lives all the dangers of the world, not an accident but an inevitability.

At this point I will end up in this reality, this book, maybe I would have added in other realities even further ...

This experiment and many more such assumptions of physics is described in the book The Universe Next Door by Marcus Chown, the one at the Amazon link below gets over.

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Olive oil is good! A short statement behind the stands, however, very much. About the positive effects of different vegetable oils and olive oil in particular was certainly enough to already reported elsewhere. I am personally also believe that even in the most natural foods even much more to it to healthier potential than is currently accepted by most (which is why for sure butter is healthier than margarine industry product).

Olive oil can taste quite different. Our previous favorite destinations included Crete (there you go best in May, which are now no longer possible, because we are dependent on school holidays). Many experts say that come from Crete some of the best olive oils in the world. And far from an average of 300 sunny days a year and the location of polluting big cities this is not a surprise.

Several years ago we ate in a tiny tavern in Crete and found that both Tim had omelet and the salad has a distinctive flavor, with Silvie said at once that came from the olive oil. It was a very "fruity" taste, as though he tends to be common in olive oil, but otherwise not strong in this form. We have then the owner of the tavern be bought two bottles of his way, self-produced olive oil. Also on a different site on Crete, we found an olive oil that has the same flavor: Health Food Shop at Johanns in Kavros. Johann - a German who had settled in Crete, knew his way around with olive oil, which it referred directly by various farmers in the surrounding area. So we bought there also a bio-oil, which was of a quality that every few years when harvest comes - who knows, maybe actually making it one of the best oils in the world!

Back home, of course, a few months later, all stocks were exhausted. Since I had become so accustomed to the taste of olive oil - I poured it sometimes even directly to a disk of fresh bread with a little herb salt it - had to get her an equal supply. In the following weeks, so I tried out various Cretan olive oils kaltgespresste. Of these, there were indeed plenty of shops in Germany, but none had this typical taste, be it cheap or very expensive oils. When I had almost given up hope that I was still looking for: The olive oil brand Minos - available as in the subway or in the real - had the same taste (it also comes from the same region of Crete). It was also not particularly expensive time - 4,99 €, half liter. Thus, this oil is my absolute recommendation.

Incidentally, there is in Silvia's education blog a article on the effect of olive oil - they found that it works great applied externally for eczema and acne!

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An interesting book I've read recently is Open Focus attention training by Les Fehmi and Jim Robbins. Like "see through activation of the alpha state of health and creativity" of the subtitle suggests, this book is a relaxation technique that was developed by Les Fehmi in decades of research at the Princeton Biofeedback Center and refined continuously.

Biofeedback denotes general methods, which attempt to change the current physical or mental condition of the people. Here, one tries to bring about a change through presentations or concentration, where you can directly control the amount of change with a suitable device. An example would be that one tries to reduce the frequency of the heartbeat and you this, its own heartbeat clearly audible (that would be the feedback), which both control serves as well for continued refinement of the technique leads to this end to the desired Result out - here for an audible reduction in heart rate.

Les Fehmi originally explored alpha waves, which are low-frequency waves of brain activity in the EEG. Alpha waves are normally generated in the deeply relaxed state when the brain is not focused on a single activity. Work also still have both halves of the brain together, it comes to so-called phase-synchronous alpha waves, and at precisely this is what the method of Fehmi. He is in fact determined at some point that when he was in the lab as part of his research for some time in this state, he subsequently often felt for days completely different, namely, more relaxed, more balanced, but also attentive and generally happier.

So, he developed methods to produce that state of alpha wave zuverlässing what turned out to be difficult at first, because the more one tries to achieve it, the worse it works. Finally he found out that certain ideas of "space" - in the body or around it - most reliably to the desired result led. Imagine, therefore, before things like the space between the eyeballs or the space between the fingers, and the mere concentration effect on this visualization in the relaxed state, the increase in alpha waves.

What I find interesting here is that he comes to the same findings as those found in Asian methods such as qigong or meditation, just that he used containing a "Western" approach. His method does the same self-regulation of the body and the same "flow" feeling such as Buddhist meditation techniques.

The book includes a CD, "with which one can apply this technology themselves, without any training required by a teacher. You will be asked on the CD, is this or that just imagine what, in combination with the careful choice of words and intonation to the desired result.

According to Fehmi this attention training a highly positive impact not only on tight muscles, but also to mental disorders such as ADD or ADHD in children, so that they can achieve in school again significantly better performance.

More information can be found such as Amazon, which is accessible via the following image link.

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