Feb 9, 2026
Link to video: The Engine of Reality Part 2 - The Video Game Analogy
-Hi, I'm a metaphysicist, you can call me C.
-And I'm here to ask, how does the foundation of reality work? In this video, I'll explain how to visualize the components of my new theory called the Engine of Reality. Also, keep in mind, a theory doesn't prove or disprove anything. A theory uses well-supported evidence to explain how a complex system might work.
-Now, looking at things we already know, general relativity and quantum mechanics support a simpler picture of reality, if you know how to deduce it. On a fundamental level, all objects have intrinsic, built-in energy and resistance, which create electromagnetism. When I say resistance, I'm pointing out the fact that atoms resist disorder. Atoms don't easily fall apart. If something resists falling apart, then it has intrinsic energy and a type of resistance that holds it together. In other words, something hidden is powering the universe, and we cannot directly measure it because it's outside of our perceivable reality. In modern physics, the intrinsic energy and resistance that I'm referring to are called the four fundamental forces, which are gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak nuclear forces, but modern physics doesn't explain where the energy and order come from because we can't directly measure it. So how do we imagine something like that?
-The foundation of reality can be compared to a computer that is powered by electricity. Once a computer is plugged into the power grid, a whole new reality can be generated on the computer screen. Those realities are programs; also called software. A program is a batch of orderly code that is written to create a closed system like a video game. A program needs a computer so it can run and be perceived, but the computer doesn't need a non-essential program to run. Like the foundation of reality, the computer can exist on its own with it's own systems, but a game needs a computer to be perceived. The program's code is written on a hard drive where it can be read by the computer, and then it's projected with lights on a monitor. The monitor doesn't show you what the code of the program looks like or what the computer hardware looks like, it shows you a game that you can explore with an avatar. The monitor displays what the program is designed to show you, and it's a completely different system compared to the computer itself.
-Now, let's point out the order of importance, or cause and effect. A program cannot run unless the computer runs first. The computer is the program's fundamental foundation, even more fundamental than the code that builds the program, and the program cannot run without a computer or be seen without a monitor. The monitor is an interface that helps translate the program for us. The program's code defines the boundaries of its reality, like the size of a player's avatar and where it can travel in the game, then the monitor allows us to perceive small parts of that reality at a time. We aren't shown the entire game all at once. We couldn't comprehend it that way. The story is told from a first-person perspective, using a storyline with past, present, and future events, and we perceive one event at a time. The entire story is already written and saved in the hard drive. The program wouldn't run otherwise, but we don't perceive it all at once. That's similar to how we perceive our reality. Our past, present, and future already exist in the foundation of reality, but we only perceive small parts of it at time. We are subject to the passage of time, the foundation of reality isn't.
-To built more on that analogy, a program like the Minecraft game cannot run without some kind of hardware powered by electricity. If you're a character inside the game, you cannot physically step outside of the game to measure the computer that the game is running on. The character cannot escape its program. The program defines the limits of the character's reality. In other words, the character cannot break the game's laws of physics because those laws literally support its existence. All the character experiences is the story told by the program. The character has a limited area where it can move and limited actions it can perform because all its actions are predetermined by the program. Despite all the actions being predetermined, the character appears to have freedom of choice because it has so many predetermined choices to choose from. Sound familiar? It should, because the same thing is happening to us.
-We're trapped inside of our reality. We are limited by the laws of physics which are the limits of our perception. Our perception is our five bodily senses and their connection to our brain, and like a monitor, our perception is our interface with reality. We cannot break the laws of physics and step outside of our program to measure how the foundation works. We're stuck inside of our limitations. But we can use our imaginations to go beyond our limitations. We can conceptualize things that we cannot directly measure. And we have plenty of scientific evidence to piece together how the Engine of Reality might work.
-So, where is the evidence? Why do I think the foundation of our reality acts like a hard drive being powered by electricity? Let's compare a few things and find out. What are the building blocks of our perceivable reality? It's atoms, or subatomic particles, and these particles have built-in electromagnetic energy. An atom's charge determines how it can combine with other atoms to form molecules. Two hydrogen atoms can combine with one oxygen atom to create a water molecule. It's a dance of force and resistance to create perceivable objects. A hard drive does something similar with a different code. A hard drive uses electromagnetism or electric potential to read ones and zeros in order to activate a program that we can perceive through lights on a monitor. The ones and zeros can generate a picture of flowing water on a monitor, while our reality uses subatomic particles to generate actual water that we can experience with all five of our bodily senses. A hard drive's ones-and-zeros are comparable to atoms in how they generate something we can perceive. Which makes me assume, something like a computer might exist at the foundation of reality, and that's where the mysterious intrinsic energy and order are coming from.
-Let's clarify this a little more. If this explanation truly reflects our reality, then we're perceiving a complex program supported by a god-like computer that exists outside of our perception. We're like a Minecraft character becoming self aware inside the game. The program defines the character and its entire reality. The character cannot break the program's laws of physics to explore the computer that is maintaining its reality. The character cannot do what Neo did in the Matrix. The same goes for us. We cannot break the laws of physics to access the foundation. We cannot perceive anything that moves faster than the speed of light. We cannot destroy or create mass or energy. We cannot perceive anything at the temperature of absolute zero because motion and time stop for us at that temperature. We are limited like a character inside a video game. That realization helped me re-imagine quantum mechanics and discover something profound about our perception, which I explained in my introduction video called, The Missing Link in Physics.
-Now, I have one more analogy about electricity before I wrap this up, In a computer, we have electricity that powers orderly hardware that is designed to run programs. The electricity is the energetic force, the hardware is the orderly resistance that guides the energy, and the program provides the code that shapes the data that is sent to the monitor. In my theory, the Engine of Reality, our universe works is a similar way. Atoms have built-in energy and resistance or order, and our perception is our interface with the atomic forces. The intrinsic energy that drives reality also pushes our consciousness through time. Without intrinsic energy, there would be no heat, time, or space. The universe would be dead without energy. Kinda of like the inside of a black hole. Hear me out on this analogy.
-In my theory, Black holes are like a pinched electrical wire on an astronomical scale. The electricity hits high resistance at the pinched point and heats up, which is comparable to the heat of the accretion disk outside of the event horizon. Perceivable matter around the black hole creates the accretion disk, so not all black holes have this visible feature. Inside the event horizon, as far as we know, motion and time stops. If you Google that scenario, the results claim that time doesn't stop inside a black hole even though no one has every been there to find out. It is assumed that an observer would see an object freeze at the event horizon due to time dilation. Then the object would vanish or experience spaghettification before "falling" in to the point that we can no longer perceive. That sounds like time stopping or being very disrupted if you ask me. We live by relativity. We should always remind students that we don't know exactly what is happening inside the black hole. We have theories about it, but our perceivable reality stops inside the event horizon. Current theories might be right, or they might be very wrong. We can't physically test it to find out.
-General relativity is incredible. It's perfect for explaining our perceivable reality, but not for things that exist outside of our perception. We can't perceive something that moves faster than the speed of light, and you have to travel faster than light to escape the gravity inside the event horizon. General relativity has limits, and they are defined by the limits of our perception. In other words, the laws of physics are defined by the limits of our perception. I hope that gives you a lot to think about. This might be my last video for a few weeks, unless viewers recommend some exciting physics topics for me to talk about. If you have questions, email me at atomicbackstop@protonmail.com, or check out my blog, wildbluequantum.com, where I have a list of my video links and posted video scripts. Thanks for watching!