What Is Reality? [Official Film]

What if the very fabric of space and time isn't made of one-dimensional strings or energy as we think of it, but instead was simply a code or a language made from a geometric projection?

Quantum Gravity Research is a Los Angeles based team of mathematicians and physicists working on developing a theoretical framework for a first-principles unified quantum gravity theory they call emergence theory. Still in the early stage of development, emergence theory attempts to unify, through mathematical and scientific rigor, the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and consciousness.

This film is presented in layperson terms and explains basics tenets of emergence theory, quantum mechanics and digital physics in ways that are meant to be communicative and fun. However, if you'd like to read any of the scientific and more technical papers, please visit our website.

Now ENJOY THE MOVIE!

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Our YouTube channel contains various videos and presentations that are far more math/physics-heavy, technical and detailed. If you like following our journey we encourage you to subscribe. We do hope you enjoy some of those as well.

Film credits:

Host: Marion Kerr
Einstein and Heisenberg's voices: Devin Harjes
Written, Directed and Edited by David Jakubovic
Director of Photography: Tony Ditata
Cartoon animation and design: Sarah Winters
Original Music by Daniel Jakubovic
Rerecording mixer: Patrick Giraudi
Line Producer: Piper Norwood
3D Effects by Raymond Aschheim and Matt Beets

Quantum Gravity Research was founded by Klee Irwin in 2009.

WARNING: This video contains flashing patterns that may potentially trigger seizures for people with photosensitive epilepsy. Viewer discretion is advised.

[edwardpetersen]

Does the universe appear like a computer because we are in the digital age and that flavors our very consciousness . . . it all seems like code because that's what we are looking for. The universe appeared to us as a well oiled machine during our industrial age and as magical during our pre enlightenment zeitgeist. Perhaps we create not just by observing but by observing through the very limits of our concepts.

[thegod]

20 days into Quarantine and now I am questioning reality.

I was coming from a video on simulation theory, and now youtube doesn’t have anything better to offer in the recommendations, it’s quickly deteriorating in the right hand-side bar…

The content is 100% scientific, but it requires basic knowledge of quantum mechanics, consciousness, geometry, linear algebra, and even simulation theory, to be truly blown away by it’s content.

While the content is very simplified, none is oversimplified.

Where the notions could be borderline religious, the mystic is cleared away at once.

And yet, years after the latest biggest advancements in physics, it is maybe now, that we have enough reflection upon previous work, to see through what they couldn’t see. Like the pixelation of space and time ; which may seem obvious today, but it probably helps a lot that a few decades have passed.

This is the first time I see something ressembling a theory of everything that is, well, logical, bottom up, and building upon the acquired knowledge.

Thank you so much for re-awakening my scientific curiosity !

[zaveeramini]

When the universe tries to explain itself to itself.

[damyr]

This video exists for 3 years and majority of comments are made in the last 3 days. Youtube algorithm always wins.

[rigelmoon]

"Not only is the universe stranger than you imagine, it is stranger than you can imagine." Sir Arthur Eddington

[recordgirly]

Universe is uni=one verse=song Were not separate but we live in this; "One Song!"

[ryanainlay]

The 1st Hermetic Principle: "The Universe Is Mental".

Most of these ideas are not new thought. They've been around for millennia, and science is just now beginning to catch up. Let's use our new tech to validate old ideas influenced by consciousness.

[baldheadbird]

I watched this stoned and when she said, "am I stoned?" I had an existential crisis

[izecjaxn]

I truly appreciate creators like this. Sharing knowledge that most of us would never have access to.

[kevinwilson]

Finished watching this. I’m thinking how amazing and thought provoking this is. Wow. I’m blown away. 69 years old, gonna retire in 2 weeks, and this is rattling everything my Catholic Baby Boomer existence has taught me. Holy Cow. Then I hear some quiet purring next to me, and feel a paw gently nudging my shoulder. It’s Mr. Bing, one of my cats, wanting to go out on this beautiful afternoon. Yeah, sounds like a good idea Mr. Bing, lead the way. God (or whatever) Bless you all. Kevin

[christophed]

I find this video relatively heavy on "magic talk". A lot of nice, expensive special effects, but in terms of actual insights?

Checkout the Theory of Incomplete Measurements for the opposite approach, a theory that is simple, effective, and delivers an actual, verifiable unification of QM and GTR.

One new relativity principle: "We should be able to have physicists agree irrespective of the instruments they use" encompasses the special principle of relativity (physicists agreeing irrespective of their relative speed) or the general one (physicists agreeing irrespective of their relative state of motion, including accelerated).

One observation: Physics is about measurements, not mathematics, and our measurements are all discrete.

This leads to an all-discrete theory of physics, without a space-time background, and where we can work both with the 1905 and 1961 definitions of the meter (or more fuzzy distance measurements like "a two hours walk") without physical contradictions.

[mariamartinademarte]

When u start watching these videos at 2 am you know you won’t sleep tonight

[streetlight]

Video : three years ago
Comments : three hours ago .

[joestrike]

I lost my way about 30 seconds into the video...but the idea of all time existing simultaneously reminded of something I experienced decades ago.

In 1977 I was at a Central Park Richie Havens concert when a very strong beat in his music sounded simultaneously with a distant thundercrack. At that moment, I suddenly somehow knew *something incredibly weird* would soon happen.

Nothing weird happened - until *every light in NYC went out* (and IIRC most of the northeast) as we were leaving the concert. Thinking about it recently, I wondered if somehow the thunderclap/drumbeat "reminded" me of *something that had yet to happen.* If all time indeed consists at the same moment, perhaps that event in the future broke though some temporal barrier and penetrated my consciousness before it happened. Other than that, two other extraordinary "coincidences" (no point in describing them here) have happened to me, but neither one involved being aware of a future event.

[VietTran-xlms]

I was watching and thinking "it would be weird to see this show say consciousness is the element that affects reality as I suspected over decades"... then around 4 minutes or so... "consciousness" - literally blurted out loud, "HAH!"

[alloneword]

While on a recent mushroom trip I realized that we are not capable as humans to understand something with no beginning or end. Time and space are illusions of our animal sense perception. I kept feeling like the dream world was more real than this one. It's an elevated state of consciousness where anything is possible. The mushroom took away that line of separation from being asleep and being awake. Human language can not describe where I was or what I saw. I believe it was designed like that on purpose because if we did not forget then we would not be able to exist. You can not take back all the information with you from a trip like mine. I just know that wherever I was I have been there countless times, everything made sense. We live here just to live. I was coming in and out of different states of consciousness. When I would come back to this state, then normal one if you will, I was astonished at how they make us believe that what we call reality was real. I would touch the walls in my room and laugh because they made us believe it was a wall and that the wall was solid. I knew I had a body but I didn't care about it. I was free to breathe like I never could before. Time only existed as right now. I felt as tho anything could be possible and come from nothing. A darkness that was dazzling with all possibilities and this one we live In is just one of many. If you were to dream 80 years worth of life from just one nights sleep, you would eventually dream the life you are living right now. You would dare yourself to step further and further away from "knowing" because then it becomes more and more real.

[rnljkzu]

So basically, we are everything, everybody is everybody, and we are the universe experiencing itself.
Sounds like psychedelics were right, eh?

[danielionescu]

Regarding past- present-future loop: You have a personality and you decide to change yourself. At one point you become a new person. The causality chain: Your future "cristal" projection of yourself made you who you are now and what you will become. We measure the future, make decisons in the past and adjust the present which connects the cristal projection in the future with the memorized reality . So, time is a product (tool) of the consciousness in creating the reality. Existing future destination leads to your past decision to go on the current way. Time represents the memory of the universe (the movie ). ΔT(Time = present) = T1 (Future, process, motor) - T2 (Past, memory, resources). V= d/ΔT (If T1 is missing or T1=T2 or ΔT=0 then is no speed, T2 may be 0. T1 and T2 can be both positive and negative but not equal meaning that T1 and T2 can both represent past and future but not present. ) If the future time destination is missing then causality is broken.

[lordwhite]

Also, the image is not the thing. The description is not the actuality of the thing in itself. The nature of reality can't be grasped intellectually by the mind. Thinking just won't do it, as thinking is limited because knowledge is limited by memory and imagination. Leave your thoughts alone then and let them clear by themselves, neither accepting or rejecting any thought. Let the mind rest in that natural state of silence where no thought stirs. Remain like that all day and all night, and the true nature of phenomena will reveal itself. ❤🙏😊