Well I didn't actually see the Matrix but I've seen other movies where with similar sorts of themes.

It seems to me that we must make a distinction between what is "objective" and what is "measurable" in discussing the question of physical reality, according to quantum mechanics. The state-vector of a system is, indeed, not measurable , in the sense that one cannot ascertain, by experiments performed on the system, precisely (up to proportionality) what the state is; but the state-vector does seem to be (again up to proportionality) a completely objective property of the system, being completely characterized by the results it must give to experiments that one might perform.

There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions.

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

This book is about physics and its about physics and its relationship with mathematics and how they seem to be intimately related and to what extent can you explore this relationship and trust it.

It may well be there is something else going on in the brain that we don't have an inkling of at the moment.