{"id":233378,"date":"2026-03-16T06:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/we-might-be-completely-wrong-about-reality"},"modified":"2026-03-16T06:06:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:06:48","slug":"we-might-be-completely-wrong-about-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/we-might-be-completely-wrong-about-reality","title":{"rendered":"We Might Be Completely Wrong About Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/61qGwDQ5Ba0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Space. Time. Matter. What is reality? And if it\u2019s so fundamental, why do we all experience it so differently? Join us for a marathon through the discoveries and paradoxes that suggest modern physics is pointing to a deeply uncomfortable truth: that our picture of the universe is far from complete, and what we think about reality may be completely wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Love New Scientist? For a specially discounted New Scientist digital subscription, go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/youtube\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/youtube<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe \u27a4 <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTSUBS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>00:00 Reality Is Already Broken<br \/> 00:57 Scientists Build a Window into the Fourth Dimension<br \/> 23:16 The Physicist Who Says Reality Is Not What It Seems<br \/> 1:28:45 The Black Hole Paradox That Keeps Physicists Awake at Night<br \/> 1:50:40 Sean Carroll: The Many Worlds of Quantum Mechanics<br \/> 2:46:40 What are the foundations of reality?<\/p>\n<p>Get more from New Scientist:<br \/> Official website: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTHP<\/a><br \/> Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTFB<\/a><br \/> Twitter: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTTW<\/a><br \/> Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTINSTA<\/a><br \/> LinkedIn: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/NSYTLIN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>About New Scientist:<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/03\/we-might-be-completely-wrong-about-reality\">Continue reading \u201cWe Might Be Completely Wrong About Reality\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Space. Time. Matter. What is reality? And if it\u2019s so fundamental, why do we all experience it so differently? Join us for a marathon through the discoveries and paradoxes that suggest modern physics is pointing to a deeply uncomfortable truth: that our picture of the universe is far from complete, and what we think about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}