NONE OF THIS IS REAL

A particle changes its behaviour when you watch it. Nobody can explain why.

A physicist on TikTok says something that Philip Rooke's school teacher left out. The result of the most replicated experiment in quantum physics depends on whether anyone is observing it. The universe renders differently when you look.

Rooke - a technology CEO with thirty years of building digital systems - expected to debunk the idea in a weekend. Two years later, with forty-seven browser tabs still open, he wrote this book.

The evidence is not what you think.

It is not speculation. It is not science fiction. It is in the peer-reviewed journals, in the mathematics, in the equations that every physicist accepts but few are willing to follow to their conclusion:

• The observer effect - particles change their physical behaviour based on whether information about them exists. Confirmed by thousands of experiments over a century.


• The fine-tuning problem - the physical constants of the universe are calibrated to tolerances so precise that any variation would produce a cosmos without matter, chemistry, or life.


• Error-correcting codes in physics - a theoretical physicist found the same codes used by internet browsers to check data integrity embedded in the deepest equations of string theory. His comment: "If this is a simulation, I may have found the first hard evidence."


• 2,500 cases of children remembering previous lives - documented over fifty years by a University of Virginia psychiatrist with the methodological rigour of a man who knew his data would be challenge