# Where is reality? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 19, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417 "2011-11-19T04:05:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HolographicBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/cdc98d/32.png) [@HolographicBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolographicBill)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/1 "2011-11-19T04:05:16Z")
Reality? According to some of the leading physicist reality may lie in a hologram far, far away. I agree… So a single photon ‘shot’ through a dual slit board shows up twice, three times??? Don’t know why. See it leave and see it hit but miss its travel? Then when the equipment is moved closer it ‘acts’ normal? Other words, it has traveled its life span.The answer, at least to my humble thinking, lays in life itself. Like life and death. In other words the photon dies from a further distance than close. The single photon is still ‘alive’ when it is close to the split window board. Consider a person at death, has it not been proved (although not certain what it is) that 24 grams of weight “disappears”? It happens to everything at death. We leave this so-called realty. What happens is we actually return to the origins (hologram).It is the actual entity, not the non-reality, the reflection, the not real part ‘returning’. So we see whats not real! It’s similar to ‘is the moon really there if you are not looking’. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/2 "2011-11-19T04:11:07Z")
Whoh! Dude, that’s like, heavy. I think my world just went dark purple, and a little swirly. Stranger ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/3 "2011-11-19T04:20:13Z")
> [@HolographicBill](#): > > Consider a person at death, has it not been proved (although not certain what it is) that 24 grams of weight “disappears”? No, it has not been proven. You are mistaken. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/4 "2011-11-19T04:20:36Z")
**Where is reality ?** Corner of MLK and 9th, right next to the Starbucks. Can’t miss it, there’s a huge sign. ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/5 "2011-11-19T04:33:49Z")
In time. ---
**Author:** ![ProbablyProcrastinating](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/57b2e6/32.png) [@ProbablyProcrastinating](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProbablyProcrastinating)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/6 "2011-11-19T04:41:40Z")
Wherever anything is, reality is there. The center of the universe is here: [http://www.fremont.com/centeroftheuniverse.html](http://www.fremont.com/centeroftheuniverse.html) I used to live just down the street. Reality is definitely more defined there, if by “defined” you mean, awesome. ---
**Author:** ![David42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@David42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David42)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/7 "2011-11-19T19:47:15Z")
Didn’t this get answered a long time ago as “I think, therefore I am?” ---
**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/8 "2011-11-19T20:45:38Z")
> [@James Boswell](#): > > After we came out of the church, we stood talking for some time together of Bishop Berkeley’s ingenious sophistry to prove the nonexistence of matter, and that every thing in the universe is merely ideal. I observed, that though we are satisfied his doctrine is not true, it is impossible to refute it. I never shall forget the alacrity with which [Dr] Johnson answered, striking his foot with mighty force against a large stone, till he rebounded from it: “I REFUTE IT THUS.” There you go. ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/9 "2011-11-19T21:47:25Z")
> [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](#): > > Whoh! Dude, that’s like, heavy. Why’s everything so heavy at the SDMB? Is there something wrong with the Earth’s gravitational pull? ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/10 "2011-11-19T22:11:47Z")
> [@HolographicBill](#): > > It’s similar to ‘is the moon really there if you are not looking’. You mean if I don’t look at the moon, the tide won’t come in? ---
**Author:** ![Mince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecd19e/32.png) [@Mince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mince)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2011, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/11 "2011-11-19T22:24:54Z")
> [@David42](#): > > Didn’t this get answered a long time ago as “I think, therefore I am?” Sure, but that doesn’t even approach the solution to: When is a gallon of milk? and Who is calculator? ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/12 "2011-11-20T00:13:27Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Sure, but that doesn’t even approach the solution to: > > When is a gallon of milk? > > and > > Who is calculator? Or, the question of the ages, “Who was phone?” ---
**Author:** ![Kozmik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8dc957/32.png) [@Kozmik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kozmik)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/13 "2011-11-20T00:54:57Z")
> [@Derleth](#): > > Or, the question of the ages, “Who was phone?” No, the question of the ages is: “Who was Bart, and how did he manage to write his name in solid cement?” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/14 "2011-11-20T01:18:37Z")
I think the relevant question here is “Are you sure it was a good idea to take all those at the same time?” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/15 "2011-11-20T08:57:13Z")
Just how many of those brownies did you eat? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 9:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/16 "2011-11-20T09:39:34Z")
> [@Esox\_Lucius](#): > > You mean if I don’t look at the moon, the tide won’t come in? That’s not a moon, that’s… Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![David42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/5f9b8f/32.png) [@David42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David42)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/17 "2011-11-20T10:11:09Z")
> [@Mince](#): > > Sure, but that doesn’t even approach the solution to: > > When is a gallon of milk? > > and > > Who is calculator? Oh, those are easy. The gallon of milk in my fridge is NOW. But not “eternal now” because then it would be sour cream. Calculator is a new character in the X-Men franchise. This guy’s mutations allow him to do calculations that prove his opponents don’t exist, and they just go “poof” and they’re gone. ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/18 "2011-11-20T18:56:38Z")
**Where is reality ?** About three feet to our left. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/19 "2011-11-20T19:55:51Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > **Where is reality ?** > > About three feet to our left. Wait, your left or mine? ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [November 20, 2011, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417/20 "2011-11-20T20:56:38Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > Wait, your left or mine? Yes. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-is-reality/603417.md?page=2)