Reality or just the matrix?

It is a question that exists for at least a few millennia, and now a group of experts claims to finally find a way to test this hypothesis.

The Matrix series with Part 1 premiered in 1999, not only bringing Keanu Reeves to the world's star, but also sowing the minds of skeptical people about the existence of the present world. Are we not really living, but bound in a universe created by a giant computer? And mankind is used by an evil intelligence to operate that machine. In other words, are people really living or just bio-batteries?

In fact, this question has been around for thousands of years. Of course, when I first raised the question, the philosophers of that time did not use the word 'matrix' . One of the first questions posed about the reality of the world appears in Plato's Republican work, in an attempt to describe the existence of a non-realistic state of the world. Greek philosopher Plato, widely recognized as the father of Western philosophy, said that reality could be nothing more than shadows in the cave. And the person inside, who never left the cave, may not realize it.

In the Matrix series, the current world is just a computer-generated model

According to Plato, the only way to confirm that this is the real world is to rely on a thorough study of mathematics and geometry, to provide suggestions about the true nature of the world. By the time of the French philosopher Rene Descartes, with research works often used to give a general introduction to metaphysics, the problem was raised again. Descartes mentioned a greedy demon that he thought was controlling the universe, making it impossible for humans to discover that they were living in a virtual world.

After nearly 2,000 years since Plato thought that human feelings had limited their cognitive ability, making them see only the faint reflection of reality, a group of experts claimed to have found a way. Solve puzzles. Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today program, Professor Silas Beane, a University of Bonn (Germany) theoretical physicist, said his team had devised a method to test the matrix hypothesis, with Hope will open a new phase of discovery. He suggested using mathematical models called QCD Grid in an attempt to reproduce a realistic matrix, or model of the universe controlled by computers. The QCD grid is a complex approach, to test the fundamental particles such as quarks and gluons that bind together to form protons and neutrons in three-dimensional space.

According to the arXiv report, Professor Beane said: 'We consider ourselves an architect at the space level, because we calculate interactions between particles by setting up space and time according to grid and place them in a box '. In theory, building a physical model at the fundamental level is said to be equivalent to reproducing the operation of the universe itself.

Philosophers have received this information with the same skeptical attitude. They think there is still work to be done before determining whether the universe is a matrix? In particular, as Dr. Peter Millican of Oxford University (UK), the evidence that Mr. Beane's group has made is still not very convincing.