The Matrix- After seeing previews of the movie ‘The Matrix’ a LOT of questions came to my mind and an uncontrollable blast of uncertainty has sprouted in my mind. Could it be possible for The Matrix to exist? Further, could it be possible that we are living in a world similar to The Matrix- what if the world is not what it seems to be? There is no way to prove it but there is no way to disprove it either. But that means that the ‘real’ world (that we don’t know, and maybe can’t know) might also be ‘unreal’. That may seem ludicrous, but we can never prove it isn’t like that (although this may seem to be a weak counter-argument when asked to prove it). If we truly do exist in the world like that in The Matrix, this would negate all the knowledge claims of the past based on evolution beginning at a certain time. It would totally prove that evolution began much before as technology has advanced to create an illusion this good. If the illusion is so good and we don’t know what ‘reality’ really is, then maybe it isn’t really an illusion at all – it becomes our reality. Since we are living our lives, continuing with our beliefs, it shouldn’t really matter but it somehow does- I don’t want to live my life inside a computer program! Everything I have known, believed, lived could be a lie and I don’t know it. Sounds strange but it is true.
Gladly, there are also things that are ‘normal’. Take the Universe. Again, it is something we think we know however, not completely. The Universe is the big black visual in the sky with all the lights and stars in it over your head. It is in essence, what we believe to be everything around us. We know for a fact that the Universe is expanding. First, there was a huge explosion in which the Universe expanded to 1050 times its size in 10-33 seconds (called the ‘Big Bang’), and from that moment on, the Universe has been growing bigger and bigger.
However, the theory of multiple universes is thrown light upon in another movie.
Men in Black- A secretive agency based in Manhattan deals with the immigration of aliens on Earth. It’s what we believe to be science fiction but is it really fiction? There is no way to prove it but we cannot disprove it either. At the end of the movie however, the camera zooms out of the earth, the solar system, the Milky Way Galaxy and outside our Universe showing the WHOLE Universe as we know, to be enclosed within a marble- one of many that a supreme being (an alien in this case) is playing with. This suggests that the alien also must exist in a place outside these universes meaning in essence that there is one giant universe with sub-universes in it.
To ask- What is ‘outside’ the Universe?- seems to be a meaningless question. According to me it is not. It is not like asking what is ‘outside’ our planet because we have seen and confirmed what there is. ‘Outside’ the Universe there are no dimensions, and there is no time as we know by scientific proof. The Universe is best seen as an expanding bubble of dimensions in a sea of nothingness – although ‘nothing’ isn’t really a word you can use to describe what is outside our Universe. If nothing is faster than light then where would the light at the edge of the Universe go? What does the Universe exist in? How can something exist, when it needs for it’s existence and beginning, something it must create? The Big Bang happened somewhere…where? The questions are endless!
The Truman Show- Is it possible that our reality is actually made by some other civilisation, in some other Universe? Jim Carrey in the movie The Truman Show is presented with a truth that is not actually a truth. His hometown is a stage on which his life is just an act. He is a puppet in the hand of a director who has created a world for him. His world to him is true but eventually he realizes the actual truth- why could he never leave this town? How did everybody know where he was at certain times? How was he so popular with such an ordinary job? He sails to the end of his world and finds out the truth.
It can hence be concluded that truth is different for different people. Many truths may not even be true and these movies are just examples of this.
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