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Imagine you are standing in a room which has all the walls covered in mirrors as well as the ceiling and the floor - as you looked around, you would see multiple copies of yourself in all directions repeated again and again, getting fainter and fainter in the distance as though disappearing off to infinity. A bit sci-fi, I mean - weird? Sure. But science has discovered that this is how the real world is actually made. We can't see it of course, because we were designed by evolution to get by with hunting and fishing. We wouldn't have got much further, by the way - except that we stumbled upon a new language which was able to describe the world around us much better than our 'eyes'.
Despite being by far the most mysterious and exciting thing in the whole universe ever discovered - most of us actually think it's the most boring! I'm talking about the sinister world of maths. At the opening of the 21st century most people have never heard that this strange shadow world is what makes us and everything else 'real'. Let's go.
Don't give up reading right away, it's better than 'The Matrix', or tripping on acid or mushrooms! That's because it's actually real, all of the time.
Just like everyone else, the sailors with Columbus thought he was 'crazy'. I mean; you look at the world outside your head and your eyes tell you it's flat - right? You've got to fall off the edge if you keep going. Take the Sun. You see it rise in the East every day and sink in the West. You would swear on your own life that it was going around the world. It's even possible to have some sympathy with the Inquisition when they asked Galileo why they could not feel the Earth turning under their feet.
You begin to see how really primitive our senses are. Were it not for the discovery of maths we would be stuck in this radically restricted world. It makes you begin to wonder if we are not still equally blind. Are there perhaps a huge number of multiple realities surrounding us - like in the room of mirrors?
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