Millions of years ago, mankind was born. From the day mankind was born, we have seen the world of the earth. In ancient times, human beings did not realize that there was a vast universe beyond the earth. It was not until we entered the age of science and technology hundreds of years ago that we saw the world beyond the sky through astronomical telescopes.
With the help of technology, we walked out of the earth and truly saw the vast universe. From the earth world to the cosmic world, our cognition is constantly improving, so is everything that humans see real? Some people may say that we have lived on the earth for millions of years, everything is real, there will be no virtual, is this really the case?
For the ancients, they basically did not question the authenticity of this world. But for us who have entered the age of technology, the voice of doubt is getting louder and louder, especially with the continuous development of virtual reality technology, people realize that as long as human technology continues to develop, it will not be long before we can Create a very real virtual world in the computer.
This virtual world is edited by computer programs. We can add a lot of things to the virtual world through program codes, including virtual characters like human beings. We know that technology can create a virtual world, so on the other hand, our world may also be virtual, a world and a universe created by advanced civilization in supercomputers.
Since ancient times, many people have believed that seeing is believing. We think that everything we see in our eyes should be real, and when we open our eyes, we see the world, touch everything around us, and also feel the affection and care of our relatives and friends. None of these seem to be fake, how could it be a created virtual world?
In fact, seeing is not necessarily believing. I believe many friends have had the experience of dreaming. Everything in the dream believes that you will have all the feelings in the real world before we wake up. What you see and feel is so real, you won’t feel that it is a dream at all, only after you wake up, you really understand: it turned out to be a dream.
After mankind enters the age of technology, the more we understand that seeing is not necessarily true. We all know that human vision and hearing are actually very limited, and the world seen by human eyes is different from the world seen by many animals. The sky we see is blue and the clouds are white, but what some animals see is a black world.
The reason for this deviation is that human eyes can only perceive and see, and as for infrared light, ultraviolet light is invisible to us. Some animals can see infrared light and ultraviolet light. In addition to vision, human hearing is also the same. We can’t hear many sounds, but some animals can. Therefore, we sometimes find that animals often react in advance when danger comes.
Another example is that the human senses are three-dimensional, and we can see a three-dimensional world of length, width and height. However, the universe is multi-dimensional, and we cannot perceive the two-dimensional world and the world above three-dimensional. When we look at anything, there will be three dimensions of length, width and height. In the world of ants, they cannot perceive the height. The world we see is embodied in a two-dimensional form.
Scientists once did an experiment to snatch food from ants and put it on top of their heads. At this time, the ants will panic and wonder what happened? Where is the food? Ants will look for food everywhere, but they never think that food is above them. Such things may seem very funny to humans, thinking that ants are so stupid.
In fact, why is it that we humans? If someone suddenly disappears from you, you will also panic and look around. But you also don’t think that the friends who may disappear from your side are all around you, but they have entered the four-dimensional space, and we can’t perceive it.
Through the above examples, we understand that the world that humans see may not be the real world, perhaps it is a virtual world that exists in a computer. Even the vast cosmic space outside the earth may be an infinite universe virtualized by advanced civilization.
So how to prove that this world may be virtual? The scientist thought of a simple physical experiment. The wave-particle duality experiment of light I believe many friends know that we did the double-slit interference experiment when we were in high school, which proved that light has the wave-particle duality.
The double-slit interference experiment we did in high school is naturally very simple. Later, scientists upgraded this experiment and installed observing equipment in the experimental channel to try to record the reaction process of photons. But the results came out to surprise scientists. It turned out that when we installed observation equipment on the experimental channel, the wave properties of light disappeared, leaving only the characteristics of the particles.
When we withdrew the observation equipment, the original properties of light came out again, showing the dual state of waves and particles. How is this going? Don’t photons want humans to observe their mysteries? Electronic photon particles naturally do not have mental consciousness, and there is nothing in the real world that can actively avoid being recorded by observation equipment.
However, it may only be possible to do so in the virtual world that can not be recorded by the observing equipment. Perhaps the advanced civilization set up some procedures when creating this virtual world. The purpose is not to let us discover the truth.
In addition to the double-slit interference experiment, the limit theory of the speed of light also confuses scientists. We know that Einstein’s theory of relativity tells us that the limit speed of an object is the speed of light, and the speed of an object with mass can only approach the speed of light infinitely. And this theoretical scientist has been confirmed through a large number of particle experiments. No matter how we accelerate the particle, its speed can only be infinite 99.999%, and it will never reach 100% of the speed of light.
And the theory of relativity also tells us that the faster the object, the slower the time. This conclusion is very similar to the faster the computer program runs and the slower the system, and no matter how powerful a computer is, its data calculation has a limit, which is similar to the limit theory of the speed of light.
Of course, all of the above is just a conjecture at present. Whether the world in which humans live is virtual or real, we still need to continue to explore and research. Regardless of the truth, mankind can only rely on advanced technology to uncover the mystery behind it. As long as our technology is strong enough, all the mysteries will be revealed one day.