Physical reality is an illusion

To clear any confusion: Definition of Solid; of definite shape and volume; not liquid or gaseous (1) Con has stated the obvous above. Even if physical reality is mostly empty there's still all those really solid atoms there. But, is the atom as unmoving, unchanging and solid as people believe? Inside the atom What is an atom? We have so many illustration at school or in the science books of atoms looking like a bunch of small pellets. At the nucleus we have a collection of red pellets and then tinier blue pellets circling around the nucelus at a certain distance, forming a ring; the electrons. But these illustrations don't depict what they actually look like. Atoms don't have colour and they don't have an empirical shape. In textbooks they make it look like they are tiny balls with a set place and location but in fact they are not. Protons, electrons and neutrons of an atom are fuzzy and have no definite shape. And unless joined together by Strong Nucleur Force, it is not fundamentally solid. "By the 1920's, physicists had discovered that matter also has wave-like properties and that it just doesn't work at the atomic level to regard particles as tiny points with precise locations and energies. Matter is inherently "fuzzy." They gave up thinking of electrons as tiny planets altogether." - (2) I understand that Con might have assumed my debate (physical reality is an illusion) that I mean it is unreal or non-existing.But what i mean is that most people have a false sense of empericallly solid universe with everything rigid when in fact its not and that their universe is created by a tiny amount of somethingness, (not even a speck really) in a brimming ocean of nohingness to which we call it the universe. But if the universe is solely made up of energy and forces then we could suggest that this could be easily manipulated to create existence itself by a god. But i dont suggest it is a god i suggest that it is a higher dimensional consciousness dreaming up the universe and experiencing itself aa a human inside the 'dream'. You can’t touch anything Going back to the previous example involving the table. You can say you're 'touching' the table but that's not really true. No matter how hard you press on the table, the electron fields of the atoms in your hand are repelling against the electrons on the table. In truth, your hand 'hovers' above the table at a super small distance. (Only if we define touching as the nucleus of atoms touching another atom’s nucleus) This is explained brilliantly by Vsauce in the video above. http://www.youtube.com... If we can't even touch physical objects, how do we know it's real? How do we know anything in the world is real? The only way we feel an object is when the atoms repel between the skin and the object and this pressure is felt by our nerve cells. The cells transmit an electrical signal. Then our brain receives the signal and we feel the object, we get proof that the object is there. This the same with sight. Our eyes receive information from reflected light bounced off surfaces and the different wavelengths of the light determine the color of the object. Except, that the color is actually created inside our mind. Color is an illusion. The table might look brown, but it’s not fundamentally brown. And this perception of the object is being transmitted from our eyes as electrical signals to the brain. (3) But these electrical signals can be tampered or manufactured. Someone else could be manually sending false information in our brains and thus giving us a false reality. Or it could be ourselves that are sending us false information for a specific purpose, perhaps through a machine. So if the electrical signals can be tampered then how do we know that the reality we are interfacing now is real? Even if we try to find evidence that we live in a real world that evidence might have been created by the manufacturer. This why I suggest that physical reality mght not be real or shall we say, objective. Here’s another video about this, http://www.youtube.com... The creator of the illusion? 1) The reality we live in could be manufactured by a consciousness like a brain creates dreams. Let’s create a scenario where you're dreaming. In this dream, you are experiecning things in the first-person (because some dreams are in third-person). In most dreams you don’t know that the experience you’re having is not real, you just automatically respond to the experiences and don’t question them, no matter how weird they may be. And then suddenly, you wake up and open your eyes in your own bed in your room. When you remember the dream, it seems fuzzy and flat, compared to the reality now that you’ve woken up. But let’s say you start exploring this reality and believe that this reality is real. Because you’ve woken up from a dream, therefore the reality you presently are is the final form of reality. You start chatting with friends, going to places and maybe you become lost and don’t know how to find your way back home. You get a cab and start to be driven back home when suddenly… You wake up, again. Now in the real Physical reality that you’re comfortable with. The previous dreams seem ridiculous, flat, two dimensional and way too weird. Events happened without a beginning or cause and there was no ending to an experience. One moment you’re here and the next you’re somewhere else. And they come in levels, the first dream is very weird and unrealistic but you don't notice it and then you wake up again and that first dream seems ridiculous and now the second dream/reality is real and must be the final reality. What you don't realise is that this reality is also a dream, but more realisitic than the previous dream. And then suddenly again, you wake up, in now what you claim to be the final reality again. But of course now that you’re back in the REAL universe full of science and logical events, you are sure that where you are is absolutely the true reality and there can be nothing beyond it. But what if this final reality isn't final at all just like what you thought in the previous dreams. What if this reality is also a dream and there is an even more truer reality that makes much more sense than the previous reality. Perhaps our consciousness exists at a higher plane or a higher dimension than our own in a world incomprehensible to us. Our consciousness created this world of three dimensions for a purpose, or it was just dreaming like how we dream a two dimensional world from a three dimensional reality. And in this consciousness it can create the idea of matter, physics and a universe. I mean it is more convenient for me to just believe this reality as being real but there is still a possibility of physical reality being an illusion. Sources (1) Defintion of Solid - http://www.thefreedictionary.com... (2) What do atoms really look like? - https://www.uwgb.edu... (3) Colour is an illusion - http://www.youtube.com...