Quantum Mechanics has debunked Materialism

Thank you. Much of this post is coming from a whitepaper I have written previously on this topic. I will start by explaining, briefly, exactly what I mean by the idea that our reality, our universe and everything in it, including your body (but not your consciousness) is virtual. It is essentially an MMORPG, only instead of being outside of it controlling our characters with plastic devices, we're experiencing it from within, and we've forgotten the fact that it"s not real. Such a thing is not really much different from other philosophies. Many religions tell us that we live here, temporarily, before moving on to a permanent spiritual place. The Buddha spoke of non-reality, and one of the greatest minds to ever walk the planet, the man who gave us Special and General Relativity, Albert Einstein, famously said "Reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one." Let's get into the science. I'm going to outline several experiments and facts about our universe that make sense and are explainable under the digital reality hypothesis, that are mind-boggling or downright impossible under the objective physical reality one in which just about everybody currently not only simply believes, but simply knows is true. After all, we know that once you"ve eliminated the impossible, whatever's left, no matter how unlikely, must be the right solution. And what if an objectively physical universe is exactly that? Literally Impossible? First up- The famous double slit experiment. First performed in the early 1800's, the double slit experiment was an effort to determine if light was made up of little tiny particles of matter. It"s actually quite a simple and elegant experiment, and is based upon the theory of wave interference. Young passed simple sunlight through a single slit, to get it "coherent", and thence through a double slit, to create, if it was waves as he suspected, an interference pattern on the observation screen. And that is exactly what happened, it looked much like the diagram below. http://upload.wikimedia.org... So far, nothing earth shattering. Young proved what was suspected all along, that light was waves, and the above diagrams show exactly what was expected if that supposition was correct. At the time it was done, the experiment was almost anticlimactic, as it simply proved what was already suspected. But then things got interesting. Somewhere along the line, someone decided to try the experiment not with light, but with matter. Electrons. H2O molecules. Even molecules as bag as C60 "Buckyballs", a molecule big enough to "almost" be considered macro, and is, to date anyway, the largest molecule used in the experiment. Strange things started to happen. Matter has mass, and the expected result was a clump of particles on the observation screen directly in line with the two slits. While that"s what they expected, it's not what they got. Instead, they found themselves with an interference pattern. We know, from both deductive reasoning, as well as previous experimental results, that waves create interference patterns. We expect particles to create vertical lines, but instead we get interference patterns, implying that someway, somehow, they are propagating (traveling) as though they were waves, going through the slits, interfering with each other (how exactly do particles interfere?), and giving us, experimentally, an interference pattern. This defied all logic, all common sense, all expectations, and all laws of physics as we understand them. It led physicists to essentially punt, label it "wave-particle duality" (which is code for we haven't got a clue"), and they moved on. But a physicist named Tonomura had an idea. He decided to slow down the particles so that they"re passing through the slits one at a time, a situation where they could not possible interfere with each other, and see what happens. You can see the results below. http://upload.wikimedia.org... As you can see, at first the resulting locations of the electrons, sent through the apparatus one at a time seems completely random, but over time (the bottom image was just shy of 4 hours into the experiment) they built up in a NON-random fashion and showed a clear interference pattern. How could this be?? How can electrons moving through an apparatus one at a time, seemingly interfere with themselves, individually, and given enough time create what is clearly a non-random interference pattern? It's odd enough that they do so when projected en masse, but for an individual electron to interfere with itself, it must, somehow, become two electrons, pass through both slits, interfere with itself, and then collapse back into a single electron. However, this suggestion is literally impossible, as an electron cannot become two electrons (conservation of mass). Such an outcome is simply, literally, physically impossible. Somehow, the electron was leaving the source as a particle, becoming a wave, propagating as a wave, and ultimately arriving at the screen as a particle again. I'm going to spend more time later in the article explaining more about the digital simulation hypothesis, but for the moment let me offer it as a simple, elegant explanation, which explains the behavior of the electrons in this experiment: Particles don't physically exist until they are observed (measured). Until such times they exist only as "waves of probability" and their motion and behavior is calculated, as opposed to being actualized physically. The resulting location is pseudo-random. An experiment repeated with but a single electron will result in what appears to be completely random results, it's only over time when more and more electrons are allowed to build up that the probability distribution creates the interference pattern. There is NO explanation of which I am familiar that explains how an objectively real physical particle can behave in such a manner. But more on this later. In an effort to further understand just what the heck was going on under the covers, a decision was made to put detectors at the slits, so that we"ll know for every individual particle whether or not it went through the left slit, the right slit, or seemingly impossible, both. The results, once again, were baffling. The interference pattern disappeared, and they got the results they were expecting in the first place. An accumulation of particles directly in line and behind both slits. While that was, in fact, the original expected result, why does merely observing which slit cause the change? Under the objective physical reality hypothesis, which is our default, it's once again illogical. But when viewed through the lens of the virtual reality one, it has an elegant answer. As outlined above, since the particle itself does not physically exist until it's measured, when the initial measurement comes at the screen, all possible paths are calculated, resulting in a wave-like interference pattern. When it's measured at the slit, the possibility of it going through both is reduced to zero, thus there is no calculated path possible except a straight line from the slit to the screen. It gets even stranger. Additional experiments have shown that the data can be collected, and a decision made after the fact to access or destroy the "which slit" data will determine whether or not an interference pattern emerges on the screen. I have run out of room. The above is only part of my paper, depending on the nature of your reply, I'll get into more in the next post, or have a dialog with you. Enjoy!