{"id":90764,"date":"2019-05-15T13:03:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/physicists-are-starting-to-suspect-physical-reality-is-an-illusion"},"modified":"2019-05-15T13:03:06","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T20:03:06","slug":"physicists-are-starting-to-suspect-physical-reality-is-an-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/physicists-are-starting-to-suspect-physical-reality-is-an-illusion","title":{"rendered":"Physicists Are Starting to Suspect Physical Reality Is an Illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-are-starting-to-suspect-physical-reality-is-an-illusion2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that everything at its base atom is moving maybe our interpretation of reality may be different than its actuality. From shooting photons bouncing off surfaces the world is a cacophony of all sorts of things happening at once.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/observations\/physics-is-pointing-inexorably-to-mind\/\">provocative new column<\/a> in <em><i>Scientific American<\/i><\/em> floats the idea that what\u2019s fundamentally real in the universe \u2014 its actual, base reality \u2014 isn\u2019t the quarks, fields, and quantum phenomena that seem to comprise it.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, according to scientist and philosopher Bernardo Kastrup, some are starting to suspect that matter itself is an illusion \u2014 and that the only real thing is information.<\/p>\n<p><b>Information Space<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The basic idea is that the physical universe exists because we perceive it \u2014 it\u2019s a sort of mass hallucination we use to make sense of the mathematical relationships of objects.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/the-byte\/physicists-suspect-reality-illusion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Given that everything at its base atom is moving maybe our interpretation of reality may be different than its actuality. From shooting photons bouncing off surfaces the world is a cacophony of all sorts of things happening at once. A provocative new column in Scientific American floats the idea that what\u2019s fundamentally real in the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2229,48,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mathematics","category-particle-physics","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90764","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}