MAYA: The Physics of Deception

In this film, Professor David Christopher Lane (MSAC and CSULB) explains how the ancient Indian concept of Maya (literally "not that" or more popularly understood as "illusion) permeates our everyday world. By focusing on how neuroscience intersects with physics, we can begin to appreciate that the world we see around us betrays its real origin in unexpected twists and turns. Science is perhaps the most successful method to reorient ourselves to grasping the universe in ways that defy our normal common sense expectations.