Posted on 12/14/2012 8:51:14 AM PST by chessplayer
Some physicists and university researchers say it's possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film "The Matrix."
In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, "The Simulation Argument," which argued that, "we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation." Now, a team at Cornell University says it has come up with a viable method for testing whether we're all just a series of numbers in some ancient civilization's computer game.
Researchers at the University of Washington agree with the testing method, saying it can be done. A similar proposal was put forth by German physicists in November.
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Where’s my cntl-alt-del button. I need to reboot.
Most of the “scientists” minds are probably primitive sims run on a 6502.
“Computer- end program”.......... we’re good
There are some ideas so absurd . . .
Like how time is relative, space can be curved, and pretty much everything about quantum mechanics, all of which are now both experimentally proven, and have practical applications?
How much of that will be valid if the universe turns out to be a "computer simulation?"
Oh well. If the world is "experimentally proven" to be a computer simulation, at least we can all stop worrying about everything, since nothing will be "real" anyway.
“That would mean liberals are just computer viruses. I like this theory.”
Parasites, actually.
Considering the headline is wrong (nobody is testing anything, a couple of scientists have just written journal articles suggesting HOW you would test the hypothesis), and these scientists are always writing and publishing papers, and it’s all theoretical work, essentially taxpayers aren’t being “soaked” at all.
So, liberals are now trying to prove Intelligent Design!
Anyway, I'd like to know what they come up with.
http://io9.com/5818008/the-universe-probably-isnt-a-giant-hologram-after-all
If this is true, then God is the Programmer, IMHO.
They are trying to discover the truth. Do you still think they are liberal?
I have an alternative theory.
The earth is a chessboard and the two chess players are God and Satan. I believe this is the second game in their best of 7 series. The first game ended in a draw and that was the ice age that killed everything.
Gods first move in game 2 was Adam and Eve. God’s last move was the Berlin Wall coming down and the fall of the Soviet Empire.
I believe that Satan’s latest move was the Arab Spring. So now we are waiting on God to make his next move? It could happen tomorrow or 200 years from now.
If this was a game (No, I do not live in Colorado or Washington) what do you think God’s next move is?
Even if it were true, how would it really matter?
I wonder if the programmers wrote into the program that scientists in 2012 would try to determine that they were just part of a computer program. And I wonder if these scientists will figure out that their experiments are predetermined by the computer program, and that their findings were predetermined as well.
Even if things are real, there’s still no point in worrying.
E=MC2. Our bodies are energy. NRG is either a particle or a wave. It depends on who the observer is - which would be you are the other "NRG's" around you.
(See Schroeder's Cat. The cat is dead, alive, or nonexistent until the cat is observed by someone.)
Sid Meier is god?
Oh. Well, that explains my +15 Hammer Of Smiting. It’s great to have for those long staff meetings.
LOL.
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