is this the Matrix.....YA's?

I took the red pill.

It could very well be. The universe as we understand it cannot possibly exist and could be simply an illusion. Science states that everything must have a beginning and and end in both space and time. That includes the biggest thing in the universe.... the universe itself. Yet logically how could it possibly be that way? Science states that the universe and our time-line began with the Big Bang. Which means that something must have come from nothing which is totally impossible. So, if time began with the universe, how could there be anything "before" the universe began?

You also run into a logical paradox in regards to space. Scientists say that the universe is expanding. But what is it expanding into? Nothingness? That doesn't make sense because something cannot exist in nothingness. So therefore it must be empty space.... space with nothing in it. So if it is space theoretically it could be measured. Logically then that means it is part of the universe. But also logically it also means that it must have existed prior to the universe existing for the universe to expand into it. So how could a part of the universe exist before the universe existed?

What we are left with are nothing but paradoxes. What can be a possible explanation that all we think is real is the illusion. As Edgar Allen Poe wrote "All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."

This is more easily understandable if one considers the actual structure of an atom and the scale and placement of its components. If one takes into account the fact that the neutrons and protons form a dense cluster at the center of the atom and that the electrons orbit in such a way that huge spaces exist between them and the nucleus it becomes clear that the atoms that make up seemingly solid objects are made up of 99+ percent empty space at any given moment.

This alone does not seem too important until you add the idea that the atoms that make up many seemingly solid objects are more of a loose conglomeration that share a similar attraction but never really touch each other.

At first glance this does not really seem relevant, but closer analysis reveals that this adds a tremendous amount of empty space to solid objects that are already made up of atoms that could be thought of as 99 percent space. When so-called solid objects are seen in this light it becomes apparent that may not be the seemingly solid objects they appear to us to be.

We ourselves are not exceptions to this phenomenon.

These seemingly solid objects are more like ghostly images that we interpret as solid objects based on our perceptual conclusions.

From this one could conclude that Perception is some sort of a trick that helps us to take these ghostly images and turns them into a world we can associate and interact with. This clever device seems to be a creation of our intellect that enables us to interact with each other in what appears to be a three dimensional reality.

I want to add that this is based on my own personal way of looking at the situation and was never intended to be a physics lesson.

Love and blessings Don

Yes, and I can prove it. Face mirror to mirror and note how the repeated images "curve" into darkness or face a video camera into the monitor of it's own image and note the "feedback loop" produced. This is the nature of our reality we thankfully do not see everyday. As you know, a curve is a section of a circle. Similar to the very large super collider which forms a very large underground circle, all particles of matter and energy ultimately travel in a very large circle ending where they have begun. Infinitely.

Deja Vu

Sounds like the red pill is kicking in.

Woah.

No. It's just a waste of time...