So unreal....

So Surreal

It was about 2006 when I started my descent into the quantum level of the rabbit hole. I had just finished a book called "Fabric of the cosmos" by Brian Greene when I had a startling revelation; nothing about reality is real except realization itself. While studying particle physics I came to the understanding that reality does not behave in the micro the same way the it does on the macro. Electrons could be two places at once, photons could function as both a wave and a particle, and there were pockets of space visible in all fundamental subatomic particles. The connotations offered to me an infinite number of possibilities and unlocked a part of my conscious that allowed for me to view life through a new lens. The concept of time, previously thought of as linear and progressing in a forward motion, had started to seem like an illusion that I was bound to by my limited perception. I learned that time was relative to space, fluctuating according to position and velocity. For example, the closer you move toward the speed of light, the slower time effects the things around you. Further, an atomic clock will read different by milliseconds at sea level and higher altitudes. A world opened up to me that existed just outside of the reach of my five senses. There were hertz that couldn't be heard by the unaided ear, frequencies not observed by the unaided eye, and objects that were only solid due to probability and not by a set group of classical laws.

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is there to hear it does it make a sound?