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Originally Posted by AlexN
Why not? Havent we all seen the Matrix?
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Yes, but that movie still had a reality in it. One which supported the illusion of the matrix itself.
Everything we touch or conduct experiments with, and even our perception of reality itself - from the light coming into our eyes, to our senses, and even the firing of neurons in our brain - are almost exclusively aspects and properties of light...and light has been the most surprising of all of the constituents of the universe in that it's behavior is entwined with, not just itself (a single photon), but often other photons and even the space (continuum) in which it is traveling.
The Standard Model may well explain the constituents of the universe, but I feel the whole well and truly exceeds the sum of the parts. Almost as if there is a great deal of organisation, a cosmic balancing act, happening behind the scenes.