Hong Kong production company Visual Suspect has just released a timelapse ode to quantum physics and multiverse theories; a mirrored masterpiece, they describe it as “a visual essay about perception and knowledge as reflection of our reality.”
Three minutes and a half in length, Visual Suspect says the video was inspired by its namesake: Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. In the famed allegory, the philosopher describes a group of prisoners chained in a cave, forced to stare at a wall, unable to look behind them. Their world, all they know, are the shadows playing on the wall.
This is their reality. They’re completely unaware that the shadows are only representations of something more substantial passing in front of the fire behind them.
The timelapse plays with this same concept by showing Hong Kong in a way you’ve probably never seen before. Bending perception and inspiring you to wonder at the substance of what we call reality. Is it truly “real,” or are we simply staring at shadows on the wall. Maybe it’s all a hologram.
Of course, if that’s a bit too out there for you to consider on a Tuesday morning, feel free to click play and just enjoy the visual trip at face value. No judgement.
(via Bokeh)
from PetaPixel http://petapixel.com/2016/07/19/mind-bending-mirror-timelapse-inspired-platos-allegory-cave/
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