Exploring various portals into technology and mythology, science and fiction...
Saturday, April 4, 2026
Saturday, March 28, 2026
What is...Any form of existence...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/comments/1s5zqu1/any_form_of_existence
"...play the game "existence" to the end. Of the beginning, of the beginning..." https://www.thebeatles.com/tomorrow-never-knows , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4BuziKGMy4
Tomorrow Never Knows: How The Beatles Invented the Future with Studio Magic and LSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV_BxnNfcR0
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomorrow_Never_Knows 1966
https://www.reddit.com/r/SimulationTheory/comments/1s5z1sl/vedic_yantratantra_concepts_as_possible/
https://www.reddit.com/r/beatles/comments/w4lyrx/piano_sample_at_the_end_of_tomorrow_never_knows
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TUlEsLoYEJM#:~:text=1.2K,Piano%20(1964%20Challen%20Studio%20Piano)
https://theconversation.com/westworlds-player-piano-is-the-great-character-that-keeps-getting-overlooked-95238 The player piano at the ending of the song.
The player piano was a symbolic key element in the HBO Westworld production.
Westworld S1 Official Soundtrack | Main Title Theme - Ramin Djawadi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYelEUVQ50g
https://www.reddit.com/r/westworld/comments/8k9f55/the_piano_the_player_and_the_player_piano/
https://college.berklee.edu/news/ramin-djawadi-westworld-hbo-music-score-composer-film
Perhaps the protagonist in Vanilla_Sky after he has been thawed out and revived from his digital dream, can listen to more of his music play list. What will he see and do in the waking world that he has returned to? Tomorrow never knows what new experiences await.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanilla_Sky_(song) , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP2ABs3AZl0
The corporate Net and the Web vs. the-web-of-life-we-are all a part of.
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969
https://www.munichre.com/en/insights/cyber/29oct1969-the-day-the-internet-was-born.html
Some 3 decades before The MATRIX, The Moody Blues depicted someone returning from a VR or NDE experience in 1969.
In The Beginning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1HBMKblo8
"There you go, man Keep as cool as you can Face piles of trials with smiles It riles them to believe That you perceive the web they weave And keep on thinking free" https://genius.com/The-moody-blues-in-the-beginning-lyrics
https://earthfireinstitute.org/letter-from-chief-seattle-as-read-by-joseph-campbell
“Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” ― Chief Seattle https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7362241-humankind-has-not-woven-the-web-of-life-we-are
"This we know the earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself." --Chief Seattle https://www.awakin.org/v2/read/view.php?tid=345
Wednesday, March 25, 2026
From ZOO TV in Sydney to the MATRIX Zoo in Sydney
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV_Tour#Stage_design_and_show_production
https://medium.com/@james.clark/zoo-tv-a-masterpiece-of-multidisciplinary-art-87f92f0b3ca8
https://www.u2.com/tour/id/58 Sydney https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8C89D286AB60DF65
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_TV:_Live_from_Sydney
https://tokyofoxbeyondthemovies.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/sydney-filming-locations-the-matrix-1999
https://movie-locations.com/movies/m/Matrix.php
https://www.reddit.com/r/matrix/comments/1s3b26q/im_still_recovering
https://www.reddit.com/r/U2Band/comments/1netnn9/zoo_tv_real_life_experience
In the early 1990s, U2 fans got to see Bono as the Proto-Neo in the U2 version of The Matrix.
Even Better Than The Real Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxrgXWToZA
https://www.reddit.com/r/sydney/comments/exjoll/the_matrix_locations/
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
Monday, March 2, 2026
Matrix 5 Still In Development – But Why?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIrSIUICG_E
Of course the first MATRIX movie will always be the best in the series. However, the 4th movie had a chance to really get into the simulation hypothesis and the nature of reality. Perhaps the 5th movie will be able to touch upon that somewhat better.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
Apartments with less than 400 sq. ft. (WTH?)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejPOLhfBpy8 This is like a hotel room, a college dorm or a damn hamster cage!
While this might be OK for a single person, there should still be extra space for a separate bedroom. A kitchen-dining area as well as a proper living room. Thus, anything under 600 sq. ft. just isn't a proper 1 bedroom apartment. 2 and 3 bedroom apartments are essential for families. 4 and 5 bedroom apartments for larger families, but that gets more costly in several ways.
https://www.omlet.co.uk/guide/rabbits/should_i_get_rabbits/how_many_live_together
https://www.chewy.com/education/small-pet/rat-and-mouse/how-many-mice-can-live-together
https://medium.com/enrique-dans/the-metaverse-and-the-matrix-c7609196eddd
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Pod Yes, you can live in your own excremental pee-pod. WTF?
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/science-behind-the-fiction-humans-as-batteries-as-in-the-matrix-probably-not-gonna-happen This would be a totally inhumane prison setup, but its not run by people in the first place.
As AI gradually removes more jobs from people, some control-freaks might resort to implementing draconian social control measures over the disgruntled masses.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
Friday, December 26, 2025
John H Conway and the Doomsday Algorithm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway#Algorithmics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_rule "...for example, the last day of February, April 4 (4/4), June 6 (6/6), August 8 (8/8), October 10 (10/10), and December 12 (12/12) all occur on the same day of the week in the year."
https://www.onthisday.com/date/1968/april/4 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1973/april/4
https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/april-14 1865 , https://www.onthisday.com/date/1912/april/14
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_will_theorem
https://www.mentalfloss.com/literature/books/edgar-allan-poes-eerie-richard-parker-coincidence
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190904-edgar-allan-poes-story-of-cannibalism-that-came-true
https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27480/did-edgar-allan-poe-predict-a-shipwreck
Years before the Titanic sank, two mysterious books were published that seemed to predict the disaster https://www.businessinsider.com/titanics-books-predicted-disaster-2018-4
https://www.attackingthedevil.co.uk/w-t-stead-the-pall-mall-gazette/how-the-mail-steamer-went-down/
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/785360.Futility_or_the_Wreck_of_the_Titan
https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2012/spring/titanic.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engine 1726
https://simonpetherick.com/2017/12/07/jonathan-swifts-word-machine
https://computerhistory.org/blog/gullivers-engine
https://jimmiekepler.com/2015/02/27/5281
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics vs. Free_will
https://www.thekurzweillibrary.com/in-the-beginning-was-the-code
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-computational-universe
https://cmsw.mit.edu/angles/2015/is-the-universe-actually-a-giant-quantum-computer
Three decades before the 1st MATRIX movie and the 13th Floor, the Moody Blues had a song about the nature of reality and the world control $Y$TEM. A time not that long after when the Jefferson_Airplane was playing at a place called The_Matrix_(club).
Monday, November 10, 2025
The MATRIX Scene That Changed Hollywood Forever
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLLZdhkXiSQ
https://matrix.fandom.com/wiki/Monsters
The Matrix has Vampires and Werewolves, ETc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WJUA3jgaR4
https://georgebelll.medium.com/the-similarities-of-simulation-d5a6f0121821
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Machines_(The_Matrix)
Was Frankenstein's monster a person, an animal, or a machine? https://www.quora.com/Was-Frankensteins-monster-a-person-an-animal-or-a-machine
https://activemaas.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/did-frankenstein-build-a-robot
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/frankenstein-film-review-2025
Real and digital monsters.
Thursday, November 6, 2025
Saturday, November 1, 2025
Physicists Have Mathematically Proven the Universe Is Not a Simulation
Tuesday, October 7, 2025
PKD: He Literally Cracked Reality...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-4RKLclA6s
PKD sure had some peculiar insight into the nature of realty.
https://lithub.com/did-philip-k-dick-discover-the-real-life-matrix-in-1977
The concept of an earth simulation or a cosmic simulation is just a modern interpretation of things.
https://www.rush.com/songs/digital-man Some of the words in this song seem to be referencing things right out of the first Matrix movie.
https://www.therushforum.com/index.php?/topic/38608-digital-man-vs-the-matrix
https://fusionanomaly.net/matrix.html
Monday, September 15, 2025
Ric Ocasek of The CARS
If Ric_Ocasek was still alive in 2025, he would be 81.
https://www.celebheights.com/s/Ric-Ocasek-53151.html
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/community_feed/tallest_rock_musiciansbig_guys.html
https://www.celebheights.com/tags/240.html Most accounts of him considered him to be the height of 6'4".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(The_Cars_song) - 1980 The video is interesting, but campy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panorama_(The_Cars_song)#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0anMOaCH1o The video is hardly Cyberpunk, yet seeing the tall and thin Ric Ocasek reminded me of how this could have been a little more like a pre-cyberpunk or pre-matrix type of video.
Someone of similar size and shape to Ric Ocasek in the 1980s was, William+Gibson, who was gradually working towards his cyberspace stories in the matrix.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OldSchoolCool/comments/txw7vb/william_gibson_cyberpunk_author_1980s
https://www.filfre.net/2016/11/the-prophet-of-cyberspace WG might have only been 1 or 2 inches taller than RO.
https://www.gq.com/story/william-gibson
https://hightimes.com/culture/high-times-greats-william-gibson/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/16/how-william-gibson-keeps-his-science-fiction-real
Its too bad that they didn't get to work on some kind of a project together.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Keanu Reeves, Neo and Superman 9-11 Synchronicity
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Keanu-Reeves The 9-11 Neo passport.
https://matrix.fandom.com/f/p/2668585545630249914
https://x.com/FilmEasterEggs/status/1263244853925666818?lang=en
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/us-news/matrix-fans-only-just-realising-32511974
https://www.unilad.com/film-and-tv/news/connection-between-matrix-and-9-11-091881-20240403
https://www.reddit.com/r/MovieDetails/comments/6l8rhr/somewhat_interesting_coincidence_in_the_matrix
At the end of the first MATRIX movie, Neo leaves a public phone booth and takes off into the sky like Superman.
Neo Flying - Doing His Superman Thing - Matrix 2 Reloaded (2003) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS6pJlWW31I
Reeves & Reeve
Of course Keanu Reeves as Neo, had 9-11 on his passport in a very popular movie. Christopher_Reeve was the first bigtime movie Superman. The 2nd movie in the series used Roman Numerals for Superman_II.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/36/Superman_II.jpgTyler_Hoechlin was born in 1987 on 9-11 and has played as Superman. https://superman.fandom.com/wiki/Tyler_Hoechlin
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
The Matrix • Clubbed to Death
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlDBqvc7Mw0
The Freeway Chase [CLIP] | The Matrix Reloaded | TNT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcQxWH58EzA
The Simulation Hypothesis and Keanu Reeves
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Keanu-Reeves https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqlrNLCFaa0&t=78s
https://www.tnp.sg/entertainment/movies/keanu-reeves-journeys-down-rabbit-hole-again-matrix-resurrections M4 could have really gotten into the intersection of synchronicity in the lifepath of Keanu+Reeves.
https://collider.com/the-matrix-25th-anniversary-theatrical-release-teaser/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/keanu_reeves , https://people.com/tag/keanu-reeves
This post will eventually be updated to reveal a lot more about the KR synchronicity.
https://therabbitportal.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Simulation+Hypothesis
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=Keanu+Reeves
Monday, July 28, 2025
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
UFOs, Anomalies, and Glitches in the Matrix with Rizwan Virk [Simulation Hypothesis]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWIKsLchK28
Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The+Simulation Hypothesis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmcrG7ZZKUc
https://secretsun.blogspot.com/search?q=The+Matrix
Grimes - We Appreciate Power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYG_4vJ4qNA
Poppy - Time Is Up (feat. Diplo) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gg2pS9KN28U
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI
U2 - Even Better Than The Real Thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTxrgXWToZA
Friday, April 4, 2025
Why was Laurence Fishburne Rejected From Morpheus Role For 'Matrix Resurrections'?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjvIkIk5VwE Who knows for sure.
https://www.youtube.com/@MatrixExplained/videos
The Science of the Matrix with Laurence Fishburne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8L9Z2vmMTQ
Things missed in the Matrix https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQ3_rTJR2k
Was The Matrix a Documentary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04ErVTSRNI
Monday, March 31, 2025
Keanu Reeves FINALLY Reveals the Truth About "The Matrix"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJbjkw-jwgA
Was The Matrix a Documentary? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y04ErVTSRNI
The Matrix Ending Explained https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDkAGkd4NLc
What Happened to Neo before Matrix 4? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4CFpVIvPNs
Glitches in the Matrix (Complete Edition) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO6WF288XyU
The Science of the Matrix with Laurence Fishburne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8L9Z2vmMTQ
The MATRIX and The 13th FLOOR are all about exploring The Nature Of Reality. (TNOR)
