Stuck in a maze... or a video game?

Do you know how far is your office from home? Do you know how many square feet is your house? What is the time now? How heavy are you, did you lose or gain any recently?
Each and every question above seems like a very reasonable question. Distance, Weight, Time seem very measurable. But are they really that easy to measure? We'll come back to this one.

But did you ever wonder why are we not able to know the ultimate truth? There are dead ends to every lead that may attempt to explain the universe. Our scientists are studying new phenomena heads down, but will they ever make so much progress enough to answer it, is something we may not find out in this lifetime.

So I am going to pitch a theory that I want you to try and disprove:

Human beings are all Objects inside a video game program that a superior being has created. The characters have more intelligence than our average video game, obviously. Every video game imposes constraints on the players freedom. Just like, playing the latest version of Socom or Call of Duty, you cannot navigate beyond your war zone's perimeter, you cannot call off your mission in the middle etc. Similarly, there could be governing rules for humans:

1. They cannot leave Solar System
2. Everything outside of Solar system is probably only just an illusion and it is not there in reality.
3. Our life is short enough for us to never be able to decipher the governing code.

may be some more rules, but these are enough to do a lot of fun thinking.

So what is wrong with that, why can't that theory be true? I don't see why not. The illusion of certainity is what is confusing us. The theory of relativity rules out the possibility of simultaneous occurances. Not that it is not possible to have things happening simultaneously, but it is impossible to measure it.

Consider a little experiment, where you are standing in the middle of bus that is going from left to right. You place 2 peices of paper, one at the drivers seat and one at rear end. You have a laser lighting device that you turn on which sends laser towards both directions and you can tell that both the papers lit simultaneously, right? well, that depends. After lighting the peices of paper, the light ray that is coming from the rear end meets your eyes somewhere in the middle because the light is coming from Right to Left, whereas you are moving from left to right. And the light from paper near the driver's seat is racing to catch up with you while you are moving away from it. Therefore, you THINK that Paper at the rear end lit first compared to paper near front end.

But if you are standing on the road witnessing these 2 occurances and the laser was turned on the same way as above, you will see them in different orders depending on whether it is approaching or departing from you. This means the time difference between any given two events can be Simultaneous, Greater than zero and Lesser than zero all at the same time, depending on the relative position of the observer.

The theory expands a lot more and finally tells that that distance is not the same for all view points, time is not the same for all viewpoints and even weight is not the same! Weight increases with speed, and at velocity close to that of Light, it is close to infinity. This is proven mathematically. This means, you need infinite force to move even tiniest of masses to take it as fast as light, which you won't be able to generate anyway. But until you move with velocities comparable to light, you cannot travel in time, cannot go outside of solar system and live to tell the tale. With so many constraints - how the hell will we ever come out of this maze?

This ties into my theory of the governing rules of the super video game that we are all a part of. The video game character's life is simply not enough long to get to the bottom of this.

Coming back to our social scenario, we have a lot of issues to worry about in a day-to-day life. We have needs, things that seem equivaent to typical hurdles for players while crossing levels and accomplishing missions. You have rewards in real life just like those video games when you find a secret or cross a level.

aahh.. what's the use... this theory goes on forever... forget it! I am convinced that we are never going to get out of this Matrix - not without the help of some genius, going forward from where Einstien stopped.

-Sridhar