Some scientists are saying the world is nothing like our senses tell us it is. Lately there seems to be a lot of fascination with our status and place in the universe. When we are told things are not what we think they are, what does this mean exactly? Are scientists saying if we look at our surroundings they seem one way to us, but would look completely different to some alien life form or are they saying any being in the universe would see things the same way we do, but it wouldn’t mean that is not the way things really are? I blame, if blame is the right word to use, this on the movie The Matrix. Ever since the original movie came out, which suggested we live in a computer created dream world and are really nothing more than living batteries which power machines, this type of thinking has really taken hold. Maybe not so much the battery part, but the part which suggests our world is different than we think it is.

There are some scientists who blame this type of thinking on Quantum Mechanics and some have expressed the idea Quantum Mechanics is pure rubbish. We know when we talk about the world of the miniature, the laws of nature are different and scientists have been trying to make some connection between Newtonian Physics and Quantum Physics. This probably has also contributed to some very weird ideas on what is really around us, because there are a lot of unanswered questions. Scientists are having a very hard time trying to explain our situation when they try and unite these theories. When some try and create formulas and theorems they don’t seem to work if time is included. This is leaving some in the scientific community scratching their collective heads. Simply put, we can’t seem to unite Newtonian Physics which is the physics of the macro world with Quantum Physics which is the physics of the micro world.

One of the problems in recognizing our true surroundings might be we just don’t have enough senses to do a proper job. Just as it is impossible for a person who was born blind to accurately imagine what the world around him or her looks like, we may be somewhat blind to our universe. Perhaps to get a better idea of our surroundings we would need a sense of the vibrations around us or maybe even sharper senses than we have. For all we know our dogs might know our surroundings better than we do, they might get a clearer picture using their heightened sense of smell. As we develop more sensitive machines, maybe we will get a better understanding of our universe. There is a deeper concern however and it is the immediate area around us and what we think it is? Could we be made to think we are seeing our planet, but could that just be suggestions placed into our brains?

The theories about things are everywhere and often are at odds with each other. It shakes one’s confidence when you have teams of scientists each supporting a theory which is at odds with the others and each team is telling us they are correct. I have heard some really incredible things some people and even some scientists think might be true. Let me tell you about one. It states if we are alone somewhere we are the only ones in the universe and when we see others and they leave, they disappear from reality. We all know this is nonsense and it can easily be proved by calling the person which is out of sight. When they answer the phone, it means they exist. It seems as we get more technologically advanced there are many more of these strange ideas about our place in the universe and about the universe itself. There has always be ideas of what the universe was really like, but I doubt there were ever as many theories floating around as there are now. Most of the ideas in the past had to do with the heavens and their true nature and the location of the planet earth in the universe which was usually said to be in the center with the planets rotating around it.

One reason why science is so fascinated with the universe and our planet is we can explain a lot of things, but it seems the ordinary laws of physics may operate within time, but they have no way to explain how it started. I have to wonder if there is some connection to electricity. We know how electricity is used and yet we cannot say exactly what it is. Is it just a coincidence both time and electricity stump us?

Things really got weird when Einstein turned out to be correct about what he called spooky action at a distance. It seems time and distance have no bearing when particles, no matter how far away, can be made to interact instantly. Is it because they are not really far away, but our senses only think they are. We think we are living in a 3 dimensional world, because all our senses say we are, but could they be wrong, could everything in the entire universe be existing in the exact same spot? It hurts my brain to think this way, but how else does one explain the ability to coordinate two or more particles if one is at one end of the universe and the other or others at the other end? Of course we have never done this, because we can’t reach out that far, but we have done it on earth and it works. On the other hand is some process responsible for what is happening and we just have not discovered it yet?

One scientist is telling us we are completely wrong in believing in reality and he can prove this by solving the problems with evolution. He tells us what we are seeing is our brain’s best guess on what is around us and we do not have a direct view of our environment. Dr. Hoffman is a professor of cognitive science and he states evolution has evolved our brains to give us a magnificent illusion of our surroundings. He talks about Quantum physics and notes objects do one thing in an experiment, but if we watch them as the experiment is taking place they do a different things. He is right about that craziness, but does it apply to our everyday experiences? In other words if we look through a telescope at a distant object, does it behave differently because we are looking at it? Some would say this is only true for the quantum world, but how would we truly know?

Is the world what we think it is? Maybe not.