| Reality: the quality or state of being real |

Our lives and everything contained within them function on the basis of our conceptualized reality. We make our decisions based upon what is real: what is factual and what is tangible. Our friends, our families, our hopes, our dreams: all based in reality. The great paradox we face, of course, being that what is real is subject to a great degree of relativity.

Physical

Your hands, the seat you sit on, the bed you sleep in: the existence of every tangible substance you have physically encountered in your life, scientifically speaking, do not align with our amnesia-based sense of reality.

Although we perceive our bodies to be solid things, they are fact comprised of an incomprehensible amount of subatomic particles densely compacted together. The one solid entity we perceive to be us is in fact 7*10^27 (seven followed by twenty seven zeros) of subatomic particles creating what appears to be one solid entity.

The concepts involved in quantum physics, which Einstein referred to as “spooky”, are even more challenging to our conceptualized reality. One instance, which has been confirmed numerous times, is one in which the exact same subatomic particle can exist in multiple states at once and only until it is observed is it’s outcome chosen: it exists only as a probability. 

We are not as real as we think.

Time

The concept of linear-based time equally follows a pattern that, when inspected closely, does not align with our interpretation of reality.

Time dilation states that as you approach the speed of light, you become unaffected by time itself. You remain in a standstill by which time elsewhere will pass by normally but you shall exist enveloped in a timeless state.

A man who is revered as being the greatest mind in history has told us the above. In fact we learn of these concepts in our schools and universities, but have either forgotten them or simply found the ideas too foreign to resonate with.

Einstein provided us of both general and special relativity which taught us that both space and time are one malleable substance referred to as space-time and time dilation is indeed an occurring phenomenon. In fact, the applications of this particular component of his theories are essential to the technologies which provide us with modern conveniences we enjoy today. 

Time is not as real as we think.

Reality

If both our physical world and time itself, the essences of so-called reality, are at their core unaligned with our perception… then it begs the question: what is reality?

Solid objects are not solid. Particles can be in two places at once. Time does function as perceived.

If we experienced the effects of quantum physics or time dilation would the reality we know, the one that dictates our lives, still be real? 

Reality is not as real as we think.