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Is it possible the world we live in is just one reality of many?
Meaning there are other realities and dimensions out there that we just don't know about?
People talk of R.E.M, dreams, the afterlife, all of that, but could we really be living in a matrix of realities and that the "dreams" we have are really just a connection to another dimension? Same with the afterlife?
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- Saint OmegaLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
I love topics such as this. I could write endlessly about it, but I'll try to be as brief, to the point and focused as I can, so as not to get myself sidetracked and ramble. lol
First off, yes, I believe there is an infinitude of alternate dimensions and realities in eternal space. Whether our own reality and dimensions interact in any way with any other..? I don't know, but I'd say it's very likely given the over-all dimensionless state of infinity.
Examining our own reality... in that we are all individuals, we each have a different view on reality. Granted, some things are common ground: a plane flies over head and ten people see it. Fine. A blue chair is sitting out on the lawn and ten people see it, except one is colour blind. So even "givens" are viewed slightly different from one person to the next, whether, as someone else pointed out, it be a varying perpective or view, interpretation or, as in the visuals I gave, varying angles of view. In that sense, there is a different reality for each and all of us.
Now lets examine reality. For the sake of simplicity, lets make some distinctions. On one hand we have eternity, which is a dimension of time, and as such, it has a beginning and an end. Associate eternity with reality, and the latter being how things seem. On the other hand we have infinity, which is a state of timelessness, no beginning and no end. Associate that with actuality, which is how things are regardless of how they seem.
In quantum actuality there is no dimension, no space to be traversed, so distinctions between colour, nor sound. It's like watching a movie on tv. There appears to be passing of time, dimension, colour, movement and depth... but in fact what you are looking at is a flat screen with images comprised of particles which, further broken down, have no mass at all. They're virtual.
Our "reality" is just like that. For in quantum space, again, there is no mass, time, depth, etc., and the elementary particles are all ultimately virtual. Another visual is to pick a starting point (A) and an ending point (B) to walk to. To get to B you must first reach C. To get to C you must reach the middle point D.. so forth and so on until.. what? You can't move? No, just as in quantum space, there is no space in which TO move; it's all one and the same. Alpha and Omega are the same thing.
People will argue that our "reality" not existing (whether how any of us see it or don't see/experience it) is impossible. That it MUST in fact be, whereas a state of quantum forever and neverwhere is impossible. To the contrary, what is impossible is for eternity/reality to "actually" exist. But for one small imbalance in charge parity between the electron and the proton.
I believe there is in fact only one electron, and the time it takes an electron to travel one classical inch is aproximately 1/10 decillionth of a second classical clock time. That one infinitesimal moment of impossibility is, first of all, what enables any of us to perceive anything at all (the passing of time, for example). Secondly, 1/10 decillionth of a second is exactly just how long our "reality" and universe is existing! Further, I believe it's happening in reverse.. like forwards yet backwards, as though expanding outwards yet inwards, as in a closed space. That last bit I gather from what I believe to be the true significance of so called black holes. They unto themselves are irrelevant; it's their event horizons that hold so many clues.
All particles are ultimately virtual. That said, so is "reality", regardless of anyone's perceptions, virtual. For things to be as our senses tell us is absolutely impossible... except for that one fraction of a moment. But in quantum space, again, there is no true dimension of time, no beginning and no end. And in that state or condition, nothing is impossible any more than anything is possible. Given that, there IS no beginning because there IS no end. And in that state, how long can 1/10 decillionth of a second "seem" to last? *shrugs* Billions of years, I suppose, maybe trillions or a vigintillion?
Your own brain is a good example of quantum mechanics. Information is transmitted from one part of your brain to others at speeds faster than light. How can that be? Because in quantum space there is no space to be traversed! It's dimensionless, flat, colourless, silent.. it's all one and the same: virtual. Which doesn't negate the validity of our "reality" at all. It merely negates that our "reality" is anything like we imagine it to be. And it's happening in reverse.
Oh, I could go on forever. lol Thank for the great question!
Anyway, I hope that was helpful in some way!
Edit: I forgot to mention that the one fraction of a moment of charge inbalance represents a coupling of both eternity and infinity, which is trans-infinity.
Saint Ω
Source(s): I'm trapped in quantum higgeldy piggeldy forneverwhere! lol - 1 decade ago
We live a life on many planes and dimensions. Point of view is one way. A good example would be Mathew, Mark, Luke and John from the Bible accounts of Jesus ministry. They were all around him, they were there, but what each person sees comes from a different angle.
If a person has not quenched their spiritual or instincts, they take notice, see, hear, and smell things others do not. The mentally ill are not always just sick, they tap in to a higher consciousness. The Autistic may not appear 'right' to others, but they are something special, they are tapped in.
If life were only what a dullard sees, our world would be one dimensional, it is not
Source(s): Conspiracy Theory ~ for one - 5 years ago
It sounds enticing but I think it might just mirror this world - there are plenty of trolls on here; and I am a technological dyslexic. I'd probably get caught in some virus or stuck between windows. I'll take my chances in the real world as at least i have here as an option to escape to and I know it and its pitfalls.( Also I am up to level 10 in real life)
- SonoranAngelLv 61 decade ago
It's possible. You sound like the kind of guy that would really enjoy the movie/documentary "What The Bleep Do We Know"
You should really check out that movie.
- 1 decade ago
i think so. Whenever someone asks this, i always think back to the men in black movie where there was a whole galaxie inside a little stone on a dog's collar.
- 1 decade ago
Anything's possible.. we don't know very much at all about the universe yet. keep dreaming, but take it all with a large grain of salt :)
- Sweet JudyLv 71 decade ago
This is a fascinating question........I believe is so many things, like UFO's and ghosts so it seems possible we could be just one reality of many♥
Saint Omega♥ you amaze me.......you are such a wonderful thinker, and writer.................I hope you get Best Answer....♥
- Anonymous1 decade ago
isn't R.E.M a band?
anyway, i think anything is possible:
-maybe god does exist.
-maybe the arabs do get their virgins after blowing up a place.
-maybe there is nothing after death.
-maybe ghosts exist.
the problem is, we will never find out!