You, me & The Matrix

The first thought I had stepping out of the cinema after watching The Matrix (original) was:

What if we were really in the Matrix and this film were the resistance group's attempt in waking us up by planting the first seed via popular fiction?

To the dogmatic mind, this will be a silly question, but to the more open minded thinker, an interesting one.

Let's get perspective on this:

Where are we now?

(diameter: 7926.28 miles)

And where is that?

(diameter: 93 000 000 miles)

And where is that?

(diameter: unknown...)

And where is that?


So, what is outside this universe of ours? Is there an 'outside'? How vast is it 'out there' if there were an 'out there'? If the observable part is more than 78 000 000 000 000 light years across, how could it be that we are the only living sentient beings 'in' it? What are we doing 'here'? Is it true then what most evolutionists believe: that all this happened by chance alone (that chance being far less than 1 x 10 to the power of 5700, or 1 with 5700 zero's)? Or is there purpose?

Now...

When are we?
2007

And when is that?

Ah, this is a book in it's own right, but, we are at a time where information doubling is happening exponentially fast. Take a look at the following graph:

Notice where on this timeline the dinosaurs are, and where we are.....the dino's went 'poof' 65 million years ago (65 000 000 years); notice how close they (humans and dino's) are to one another, and how far they are from the 'beginning' of our earth alone, never mind the universe).

If we look at further graphs, will we notice the exponential acceleration of 'happenings' on this so called timeline. More has happened in the field of invention and 'discovery' in the last 100 years, than in the past 5 billion years, and it is still accelerating. Take a look at Moore's Law and the Law of accelerated returns by Ray Kurzweil, as well as the controversial Timewave One by Terrence McKenna - our timeline is accelerating to a point very near in our time; to a moment of infinitely fast information doubling. In other words: first our knowledge will double every second (in other words, the last century's knowledge to the power of two), then double faster than a second until it doubles faster than nanoseconds...we will then reach a time where we will learn what we have learned in the last 5 billion years, faster than nano seconds. Frightening concept, isn't it? But I suppose, we will have to survive this coming decade first...

Now, we have some idea - looking from slightly outside our frame of day-to-day reference - where and when we are.

It renders us nowhere and everywhere at the same time.

We can equally feel this aghastness when we take a journey into ourselves as well: from your body, to your organs, to your cells, organelles, molecules, atoms, sub-atomic particles and 'super strings' or 'branes'. A vast universe on its own.

And...if we look at M-Theory - a new way of thinking that is trying to explain why the macrocosm and microcosm don't 'fit' together - we will realize that sub-atomic particles (responsible for atoms; the building blocks of you and the universe) are only the illusory result of differentiation in vibration of super string/ brane. We can see this in the field of Cymatics as well.

Vibration is only fluctuation between two opposite poles, like 0 and 1.

If we look at virtual worlds 'existing' in a 'computer', they comprise of 0's and 1's only...another type of fluctuation used by us humans.

It is then interesting to note how some theoretical physicists ponder on the concept of ourselves and our universe being only vibratory information that could be stored on the event horizon of a black hole, projected as a holographic reality (hence why the universe is a flat disc?).

Are we then in a Matrix of some sort? And if so, did it happen to come into existence by chance, or is some superior consciousness responsible for it? And if so, for what purpose?