Living Inside a Video Game

CERN researchers are baffled at how matter thrived in the early universe when it should have been destroyed by antimatter, a discovery which has evoked an actual scientific theory that the universe is controlled by a mysterious realm lying outside space and time. Matter and antimatter should have destroyed each other at the moment of the Big Bang, preventing the universe from even existing. The nature of matter and energy as we understand it does not support the fact that we are here.

“All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” said CERN research lead Christian Smorra. “An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”

So what is the source of the symmetry break? The conclusion they have been uncomfortably reaching at CERN is that perhaps the physical laws of the universe are steered by something - or someone - outside the universe; in other words, the universe isn’t the “base reality” but is rather one level of existence contained within another superstructure unknown to humans, or at least unobserved by the scientific community – a very disconcerting finding from the besT and brightest among us!

There are enormous philosophical ramifications within these new physics-based insights into the nature of reality. Physics is up against a sort of veiled reality, ultimately hidden behind the concepts of time, space, matter and energy. Even more disconcerting is the idea that such an ultimate reality may remain an infinite, eternal mystery without explanation forever and always.

My son Keith may understand this better than the best and brightest at CERN. Keith is a young man who is autistically challenged, yet a virtual genius when it comes to mastery of gaming strategies. When he is playing one of his games he inserts himself into the game without ever getting a glimpse of or having the slightest understanding of the game's source code – the superstructure that runs the program. Very much like the world that physics now struggles to define.