The Matrix - one of the most successful science fiction films of recent years ...
Unlike other films of this genre does this film trilogy, not on other planets, not just in the future, and a plot level, instead "our normal" reality, only that the film is not for real, but a computer simulation. So, all people of our world is in reality, machines as an energy source tapped duration sleepers whose brain "happy", adding he dangled is that man as an individual in a with all details and possible sensory-equipped world lives - the matrix - and this world is just our notion of the real life reality.

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

Plato's allegory of the 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 up tied in chairs a cave on people and everything they see what a wall of the shadow of things or actions reflect on the backs of these people done in by such can thus be seen themselves. Because they know the world only as they come inevitably to the conclusion that this wall, "the world was" that exist in this world, "Shadow" and move around, talk to each other (through the wall of sound is reflected, it seems as as though the voices come from the shadows), and that it otherwise would. Would you 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 current thinking would.

Virtual reality

And why would this world be a computer game? Yes, exactly. Or something else that exceeds our imagination. This seems less perverse way, with the computer game, once one of the first generation of computer games (let's say the Packman era) with advanced three-dimensional simulations compares. And now we wonder how such simulations will probably look like in 10, 20 or even 100 or 1000 years ago, maybe around with 3D and motion detectors helmet 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, not be viewed as reality.
Some further food for thought:
1) In the Pokemon game my son is the Pokemon world, through which the player is running, an island. Why? Well, this round has a natural boundary (the sea), so that one does not simulate must be endlessly wide world, which would not be done 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 a system-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 processes, which would be a rebuttal? No, because of equivalence of energy and time follows from the Planck's quantum of action 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. 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 would be connected to all, a single unit).

Our modern science has in recent decades, more and more come to the realization that she is a real understanding of the nature of things much further away than anyone had yet been adopted before. And this is far from just such seemingly mundane things like what is consciousness and why or how it controls our reality, to our health.

Sun physicists are mostly from the fact that our universe 10 - or 11-dimensional is because, according to the string theory only in the number of dimensions, the vibrations of "strings" from which all matter is created, right frequencies can have the mathematical . These frequencies in turn derives from the energy level of the string and therefore the type of elementary particle it represents. Of these dimensions are developed only known to us three spatial dimensions, the others are invisible because they are rolled up on a tiny space, maybe not at the big bang is expanding 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 are many infinite parallel universes: first, could this all possible outcomes of a particle wave function of the realized (see my article on 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 by expanding the "false vacuum) nebeneinandner exist", and this in a rapidly expanding universe in which embedded the universe as a bubble exists each. Since there could be a result of uncertainty but at the time of the big bang (or at the beginning of this world) is not really an infinite number of distinct output states, could be inferred that 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 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 you can see it yet measure or nothing - almost nothing is known. Be Kind Rewind, is not it?

Conclusion

I assume that most of the others such thoughts or approaches are unknown. What is, however, make it clear as a conclusion must be that our world can be all sorts of things and we are certainly far from being able to understand them. What kind of an even means - so if you want to paranormal things in God, in a computer game in which you collect karma points, or the infinity of its power or something to believe - have to decide for themselves. As is neither science fiction nor in the foreseeable future physics provide an answer.

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