Chilluminati Podcast - Midweek Mini: Glitch in the Sports Matrix

Episode Date: October 2, 2025

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head to globe and mail.com slash subscribe. Hmm. Hey, Lord, buddy, so two, so two-twenty-thous two-twenty. are oh yeah i'm your cult leader i mean spiritual leader and i'm your and i'm your breath exercise leader i'm your breath exercise leader the foundations of your cult are just breathe honestly it's probably the best called out there then let go of your voice a little just listen just let go your voice a little breathe a little bit more you've got to learn to breathe if you have a bane impression from 2013 to the dark night rises

that works as well as many we have a room in our cult that's just a bunch of people doing bane impressions who love and remember that movie and want it to be and take the place as the finale of Batman as it was intended is it weird I've only seen the first two of that three I never sold the last one

you've never seen the fire rise the only movie that we allow anyone to watch in our cult is Dark Night rises the third Batman movie because it implies the first two movies. You don't need to see them.

It's also perfect for your 2013 cult that you want to have a compound for. Yeah, that he's going to make for his cult compound. Listen, it's a good year, 2013. We don't need anything past that year. But we're already past it, baby. We're here. Yeah, dude, I hate to break it to you.

We are 12 years past that. Not in my compound. Yeah, right. Okay. Realty is what you make of it, I guess. That's a perfect segue. my topic for this minisode, which is, uh, do you guys know what a glitch in the matrix is, uh, you know, in like popular parlance? Obviously, obviously, if you've seen the matrix,

you can kind of guess what a glitch in the matrix is, but I'm going to have, uh, dude, people born after the matrix one came out are 25. They are, they are, they were actually born into the matrix. And I'm going to, uh, I'm going to put this, uh, definition from five years ago on Reddit from the user J's man for Mathis. to read just for everybody else to understand what a glitch in the Matrix is. In the movie The Matrix, the concept is that humans are living in a software simulation of reality. The simulation is called The Matrix. This software glitches sometimes and creates visuals that seem odd or unexplainable.

A lot of people believe this concept in the movie feels true. Some in a lighthearted manner, others are pretty deep into the theory. No judgment from me. I love the theory, but don't really take anything seriously. So in our reality, not the movie, when we see something such as all the cars around us are red, or three people standing at a bar are wearing the same shirt or two people walk by with matching dogs will say whoa i just saw glitch in the matrix i hope this explains it clearly if anyone wants to correct me or go further in depth i'm down have a good day does that pretty much

jive for you guys yeah sure yeah okay so this is not a normal like mystery but this is a clip and we got to include this clip in the notes because you got to see the clip it's just crazy this is off our sports and it is a post called a crazy glitch in the Matrix okay you know what I'm curious what this video is going to be one of my favorite glitches

is have you seen the one it's with the red carpet where it's a red carpet footage and I'm not sure what actress it is but someone walks behind them and vanishes it's clearly a matter of perspective but the way the video looks it just looks like someone is in the shot and then moves behind a person and then just never comes out the other side.

Fricking. Oh, huh. So. I've seen so many things like that before it's, it's crazy. Yeah. So it's clear if you were there like the car vanishes. Yeah, it's probably like, oh, it's just a different perspective thing.

But the video angle of it looks very interesting. I know, I know what you're talking about now. Yeah. Yeah. So this was a game, baseball game that just happened. I don't know what league. this is. It's the Hartford Goats and another team that I can't see who

it is. P-O-R in the M-I-L-B minor league. But this clip is just so insane. You guys got to see it. Check this out. And you guys can just tell the people

what's happening. And there's also, if Jesse wants to read the text of this post. Okay. Sure, sure. It's two different games uh oh wait same game same inning same amount of ins and out same pitch uh same play same count yeah but the uniforms are red in the bottom one like the play no the players are different too this is two shots from one baseball game oh oh yeah that's top of the fourth bottom

of the fourth different bat bats but the plays are mostly in motion identical it's like it's crazy both batters hit the ball right into letfield down along the line the third baseman comes out to catch the the ball but it pops up off of their shoe each of them back to a fielder in the back who's who catches it and then throws it uh to first base and both times it's an out yeah not only that it's the same out

yeah same ball strike ratio 83 miles an hour same 83 mile per hour hit a one count yep that's crazy I don't have to tell you how it's the same same same the same thing you send the comments the fact that it's the same

speed actually makes it increases the odds of the play playing out the same which makes sense I guess technically it would right well just because math you know like I wonder if they're the same height like I would be curious like the heights of all of them too.

It also might be like a really cool example of just when this, you professionally program your body to play a sport and react in certain ways when you see certain stimuli happening in the sport you're playing, how much of that is just automatic moving because you're a professional baseball player. So you're expected to react in certain ways and you've trained your body to react in certain ways. So insane. Hartford Yard Goats and the Portland Sea Dogs, Minor League Baseball.

Hell yeah, dude. I mean, I don't know what's going on in my. minor league baseball but if this is if there's like glitches in the matrix and and teams that sound like they were named by like to be blitzball teams i'm i'm ready to go it is it is even even even like explaining it like though the odds of it happening are still so fucking small i can't imagine yeah like this that's that's one of the craziest things i've ever seen there's a guy who does like a fascinating breakdown where he's like it's actually really crazy and he goes for the guys batting swinging one centimeter up and down would have

sent the ball on a very different angle, very different height. Swinging a couple milliseconds before or after would have sent the ball in different direction. A little angle change would have sent in a different direction. They had 360 degrees to send that ball, and they sent at the exact same place. Hitting the ball a little bit stronger or lighter would have also changed the direction. For the guy pitching, throwing the ball at different speeds would have caused the ball to take different paths.

Throwing the ball at different curves would have caused the ball and take different paths. They both threw the ball at the exact same speed, exact same curve. The first guy trying to catch it, they failed to catch the ball, which is already rare enough. Then by failing to catch it, the dude behind them catches it, which is already rare. The guys who actually caught the ball, they caught it mostly in the same way. They both had to throw the ball to first base. They both succeeded and eliminated the guy to run to first base. Then, from just the state of the game, it was the same inning, as we discussed.

It had both teams Had no players waiting on base Both teams Both times it happened It was three three one happened Like it's just like he just keeps listing them And it's just very Very rare that this is this is insane

It's it really is one of the craziest things It's like a universal wink Like yeah How are you doing? It feels like literally like a like a cutscene played At this point or something yeah It does feel video game E in that when you find that one thing

in a game you can kind of replicate it and cheese it over and over and over again and it has that same vibe to it but I will say there are sometimes when stuff clicks and the universe comes to get like when I played you know like kitty baseball back in the day

like eighth grade or whatever I'll never forget I went up against one of my friends little brothers and I don't know what it was I was never a good baseball player I couldn't hit the ball to save my life, but for some reason his little brother, time

slowed when his little brother pitched, and I, like, almost got home runs both times that I was up again. It's that, what the flow state, like that flow state. But it was only his little brother. It was no one else. You stepped inside his brain. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know, but which was not cool

because his parents were not happy. Yeah, no, I can imagine. Yeah, but it was like a weird vibe because it has, something that happens everyone's while you're just, things come together. And in this case, it was the exact same play, the exact same way, two times. That's crazy. That's lit.

Yeah, that's nuts. That's crazy. What do you got for us this week? Well, this goes over to space.com. Last week, I'm sure everyone who has any little science inkling in them was aware that there were a lot of news stories out there about how 120 light years away from Earth and the Leo constellation, a plan. known as K2-18B was discovered to be, at least according to what we got from the scientists and all the different reports, a planet which appears to be almost all water, if not all water, and after analyzing it, has an abundance of dimethyl sulfide, which is almost exclusively produced by life forms like algae. and so I'm sure everyone saw the news articles that were like new world teaming with life like an ocean world team with life um I don't want to come to pee on your parade but of course

space.com was like hey actually real quick yeah so first things first scientists that are working on this the ones that gave us the reports reported their dms detection with a three sigma statistical significance which basically is like is a 0.3% chance of this being random chance. But other scientists are saying like, hey, in order to even like really have people look at this, it needs to have

a 5 sigma standard. And that's because there's false positives and all sorts of things. So they did, like, scientifically they were kind of off, at least according to space.com. Then planets with red star radiation should in theory be

breaking down the molecules and forming abundant ethane, but the data from the team who discovered this doesn't have that information, which doesn't really align with anything scientists understand about planetary atmospheres. Also, the planet appears to be too close to their star based on how planets work. Also, we can't even really see the planet. All we can do is deduce based off models and data.

Like, we're not, we're seeing shadows and we're seeing weird things, but we're not like seeing the planet, right? And then, of course, there's a disagreement whether DMS actually is even considered a reliable biosignature because I guess UV radiation and methane and hydrogen sulfide in the atmosphere can lead up to the buildup of DMS. So the article goes on to say that, like, look, we really don't have a clue. This is all kind of baseline. Don't get too excited. And the example they gave is, for a time, we really thought.

But there was something alive in the clouds of Venus. And then that ended up being a false alarm. So chill. Don't get too excited. Even though last week the news was like, could we get there? What would be there? Yeah, of course. One, we can't get there.

And two, it doesn't matter what's there because it may not be real. And so chill. It's an interesting thing. It's definitely one of those. Can we get there is such a funny like second step after like talking about a planet so far away. Yeah. I was watching. Oh, man, what was I watching?

I was so funny. It was, I think it was a podcast, or maybe it was a real news show with just a real person that may be stupid. But basically, the conversation was it's 120 light years away. Okay, cool.

How long would it take to get there? 120 light years. Okay, yeah, but like how long is that? Like 120. The speed of light, 120 times. Yeah, exactly. Correct. But years, like it, and so it was,

just it was really it was really funny to watch that go down because they clearly didn't understand the concept it's like okay speed of light is this and then 120 light years of that they don't understand that that's because it's sometimes it's like when you try to explain a billion to people like people get the concept of a light year they get the concept of a billion but we try to break it down they're like oh my god that's huge you're like yeah that's what it is yeah it's a problem uh i also have a something that happened this past week that kind of got headlines

in the science world but is not as like exciting as people are making it out to be. Scientists have observed for the very first time quantum rain. I don't even know what that is.

Exactly. Out in the quantum mixtures lab of the National Institute of Optics, a team of researchers from the University of Florence and the European Laboratory of non-linear spectroscopy. Sure.

Observe the phenomenon of capillary instability in an unconventional liquid an ultra dilute quantum gas this result has important implications for the understanding and manipulation of new forms of matter. Basically what they ended up doing was they took two

elements and put them in a light tube and initially the molecules of each one of them didn't react to each other and then they hyper react and like attracted each other like H2O to create water how they're hyper attracted to each other and that's what creates water and it created

initially a cigar-shaped teardrop that stretched and stretched and stretched until it got too thin and then split into two and then three and it says in atomic gases cooled to temperatures close to absolute zero atoms lose their individuality and obey the laws of quantum mechanics

these systems under certain conditions behave like liquids although they remain in the gaseous phase for some years now scientists have been able by precisely controlling the interatomic interactions to create self-bound liquid like droplets from ultra-cold gases, these small clusters of atoms stabilized by quantum effects

share properties with classical liquid drops. By means of imaging and optical manipulation techniques, the experimental team led by Alessia Berscianti studied the dynamical evolution of a single quantum droplet created by an ultra-cold mixture of potassium and rubidium atoms. Those are the two that they put in the light tube. The droplet released in an optical wave guide elongates. forming a filament, which above a critical length that breaks up into smaller droplets, the number of sub-droplets is proportional to the length of the filament at the breaking time.

By combining experiments in numerical simulations, it was possible to describe the breakup dynamics of a quantum droplet insert in terms of capillary instability. It sounds like they made a cool quantum gas that acted like a liquid is basically what it's getting at. I don't know what that implies. they said it's for studying of the fourth states of matter but I don't know what that means

but it sounds cool and it's not the kind of rain that falls from Hideo Kojima games kind of makes you old yeah the kind that makes you old yeah it sounds like it's a word that you would have that he would use in one of his games though like quantum rain

that's like basically what it is bro yeah I mean you're right yeah kind of in a way yeah it just found it interesting because I don't really know quantum mechanics keep moving forward And I don't really know what it means, but it seems really cool. Fundamentally, I believe that I misunderstand quantum mechanics.

Like, like, I feel like I'm, like, basically just doing, like, comic books, understanding of it or something like that. But just, like, the notion of what you're saying is just some of them, like, craziest shit. It feels the most like, you know, discovering a new realm of anything that's happening right now. And it's just really crazy. Yes, because the quantum mechanics math works very, very. differently than classical physics math and just doesn't why they don't translate to a larger state is I'm so curious

but well see what happens uh that's it for us everybody here at the minnesota at patreon.com slash lumini pod some scientific updates for you we'll be back next week with another one uh we'll appreciate you we love you goodbye bye bye