Gonna comment on the Horizon prog that was on today on about reality, just so I’ve got a log of what I’m thinking – A physics person will either know or be able to disprove me already.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00xxgbn
Anyways… That quantum slot experiment.
1 particle appears to have an interference pattern.
… but not if it’s detected prior to going through the slots.
So thinking of the diverging universe theory (“parallel universes”) .. in the first case, the universe didn’t split – or rather it did and so the particles went through a slot each but because the universes were exactly the same (except for the one particle) they effectively merged back together again.
Whereas in the 2nd case because the detectors had to show something different then there was a split, prior to the slots – and there was enough difference for us not to experience a re-joining (best way I can describe) … this happens because THE UNIVERSE ISN’T INFINITE.
Remember the theory the sky would be bright with stars if it was.
So this gives us reality split in 3… I would say dimensions but that would make it confusing…
We have Time (x), Space (y) and um.. the other thing… Experience Path? Reality?! let’s say z
Of course they’re all the same thing but we experience them differently.
This fits with hologram theory in that we are perhaps in a big sphere of these 3 things projecting inwards (which should finally get us to ditch that stupid big bang theory) and we experience a straight line through it (whatever straight is) – We travel along x at a constant, choose(-ish) our y and this results in how far along we go on z. and z is fuzzy.
So yeah, it’s a bloody big sphere but if it was infinite at a point in the road where the choice is left or right, in an infinite universe there’ll be an experience path where I turned into an orange. It doesn’t happen.
This also means that it is possible to die, but we will always experience our longest life.
So perhaps my english can’t explain reality and if reality can only be explained by maths then perhaps the simplest explanation is
Reality = 1
Perhaps that’s too simple to be beautiful though 
…but my brain hurts so I’m gonna watch eastenders.
