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00:00We know that sometimes, things happen in our everyday lives that just can't be explained.

00:05The most widely cited example is probably déjà vu – that eerie feeling you get whenever

00:10it feels as though you've been somewhere or seen something before.

00:14It's a common phenomenon, but every so often there are examples of something much more

00:19than déjà vu – of bizarre theories and experiences that ultimately cause those who

00:24encounter them to question their very existence.

00:28This is Unveiled, and today we're taking a closer look at four things that could prove

00:33the world isn't real.

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00:45We'll start with probably the most famous thought experiment about the nature of reality,

00:50Schrodinger's Cat.

00:51It's a tale as old as time in terms of quantum science, but it crops up so often because

00:56it's come to be a vital demonstration of exactly how weird and unknown the world is.

01:01It was devised by the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodinger in 1935.

01:05Legend says the first time it was ever voiced was during a probably pretty complicated conversation

01:11between Schrodinger and one Albert Einstein.

01:14So how does it work?

01:15Imagine you have a cat inside a sealed box.

01:18Along with the cat, there's a vial of poison and a radioactive atom.

01:22Schrodinger's box is set up in such a way that the atom can decay, releasing the poison

01:27and killing the cat… or it can remain stable, leaving the cat safe, well, and still alive.

01:32The fate of the cat is tied to the behaviour of the atom… but here's the twist.

01:36Until we open the box and observe the cat, quantum mechanics says that that fate is uncertain.

01:42In the quantum world, things can exist in multiple states simultaneously, thanks to

01:46superposition.

01:47So, before we open the box, Schrodinger's cat is both alive and dead at the same time…

01:53so the theory goes.

01:55In general, it challenges our common-sense understanding of reality… because in every

02:00day, something is either one thing or another, not both.

02:03Here, though, what's important is that the atom's decay is a truly random process,

02:08and we can't predict exactly when it will happen.

02:11Therefore, again, until we open the box and check, the atom exists in a superposition

02:15of both decayed and undecayed states.

02:18This then extends to the entire system, i.e. everything inside the closed box… including

02:23the cat, whose life literally depends on it.

02:26Ultimately, though, this isn't about cats.

02:28It's about the fundamental nature of particles at the quantum level… and it's an idea

02:32that has since been developed, not least by the winners of the Nobel Prize for Physics

02:37in 2022.

02:38Alain Aspay, John F. Klauser, and Anton Zeilinger.

02:43In separate studies, and over a period of around fifty years, they all found proof that

02:47Schrodinger was right… and that on the quantum level, particles are inevitably linked.

02:52One possible interpretation is that it could imply that actually nothing is real until

02:57it's observed… which, from an individual point of view, grants every single one of

03:01us with a weirdly massive amount of power.

03:04But next, let's take a closer look at something that seemingly isn't an imagined construct

03:09first and foremost… our physical bodies.

03:12Because according to one tech story, at least, we may only need to look inside ourselves

03:18to find evidence of the unrealness of everything.

03:21In August 2017, some bizarre headlines made the rounds, with reports that scientists had

03:27managed to hack into a computer using DNA.

03:30And actually, that claim wasn't hyperbole.

03:33It was true.

03:34The study in question was conducted by a team at the University of Washington in America.

03:38It set out to investigate computer security, privacy, and DNA sequencing… and ultimately

03:45found, reportedly for the first time, that DNA could be used to compromise computing

03:50systems.

03:51Now, the truth here is perhaps a little less concerning than you might immediately imagine.

03:56Through a series of tests, the team were essentially able to show that the patterns found in DNA

04:01could be converted into malicious code, which then could be transferred into digital systems…

04:07especially as DNA research involves many computational elements.

04:11However, at this stage, there's no real suggestion that a person could ever simply

04:15use their own biology to hack into anyone else's private stuff.

04:19So, you needn't worry about that.

04:21The study is more to show that various DNA sequencing techniques and softwares are vulnerable…

04:27a potentially big problem given that DNA data is a. widely shared and b. has become exponentially

04:34cheaper to obtain in recent years.

04:36But regardless of whether or not DNA hacks will trigger some kind of cyber-apocalypse,

04:40why is it relevant to the question of the world not being real?

04:43Well, one takeaway from the study is more simply that it's a direct representation

04:48of exactly how programmed we are.

04:51Everything about us really can be diluted down into a digital code… suggesting that,

04:56with the right know-how, we really could all be reduced into a digital file.

05:01It's not just science fiction anymore, it's an uncomfortable fact.

05:05And so, while on some level the world is still real, it's not in any way that we

05:09currently grasp it.

05:11While Schrodinger's cat hints that realness only happens when we observe it, the concept

05:15of DNA as a digital virus shows that even the most fundamental building blocks of us

05:21can be rearranged into something that's totally different.

05:24Our physical selves can easily be converted.

05:27You thought you were only your body, but actually, you're potentially a non-physical entity

05:32as well… naturally.

05:34And without any far-future modifications necessary.

05:37And that's a little disturbing.

05:40Next though, and not every apparent instance of a code of life revealing itself is quite

05:44so unsettling, social media is awash with snapshots of seeming glitches in the matrix.

05:50This might be a photograph of strangers sitting next to each other on the subway, but all

05:55are wearing the same clothes.

05:57Or it could be a video of two people walking alongside each other in perfect sync, despite

06:02being wholly unaware that their actions are being copied.

06:05As bizarre as these moments are, however, they can almost always be written off as plain

06:09coincidence.

06:10With clothing, for example, it's perhaps not so surprising that any two or more people

06:15would choose to wear a couple of the same items.

06:17However, sometimes the coincidences do seem to go further, and American history serves

06:23up two of the best.

06:25First, the birth and death of the writer Mark Twain.

06:28He was born in November 1835.

06:31He died in April 1910.

06:33However, what's interesting about those dates is that both double up as rare moments in

06:37time when the elusive Halley's Comet appeared in the skies of Earth.

06:42Twain was born when the comet could still be seen, two weeks after its closest approach.

06:46And he died just one day after its next closest approach, seventy-four years later.

06:52The author is even said to have predicted his own passing, as he's quoted for telling,

06:57The Almighty has said, no doubt.

06:59Now here are these two unaccountable freaks.

07:02They came in together.

07:03They must go out together.

07:05For many, the scale of this coincidence is enough to hugely question the authenticity

07:09of what's real.

07:10Finally, though, and this time, to the deaths of two American presidents, Thomas Jefferson

07:16and John Adams.

07:17The pair died on the same day in 1826, July 4th, aka the 50th anniversary of American

07:24independence.

07:26You might think that that in itself would be coincidence enough, but it's said that

07:30both passings were even more closely linked.

07:33Throughout their lives, Jefferson and Adams were friends, and then rivals, and then friends

07:37again.

07:38They were founding fathers of the USA, before political clashes drove them apart and into

07:43opposite parties.

07:45Years later, they reconciled and remained close until their deaths.

07:49It's said that during his last words, Adams even remarked upon how Jefferson had survived

07:54him.

07:55Unbeknownst to Adams, Jefferson had actually died a couple of hours beforehand.

08:00For some, it's as though their lives were entwined.

08:03In modern times, we might even say that they were… entangled.

08:07So, could this have been a real-world instance of something like Schrodinger's cat in

08:11action, extrapolated all the way up to the top of US politics?

08:15Could Mark Twain's coming and going represent more than just a peculiarity?

08:20Perhaps the contemporary realization that DNA is hackable offers some kind of explanation

08:25for when things happen in life that are otherwise unexplainable.

08:29Clearly, none of this serves to prove the world isn't real, but it does leave cause

08:34to wonder… can you ever really trust reality?

08:37What do you think?

08:38Is there anything we missed?

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