What if everything -- all of us, the world, the universe -- was not real? What if everything we are, know and do was really just someone's computer simulation?
The notion that our reality was some kid on a couch in the far future playing with a computer game like a gigantic Sim City, or Civilization, and we are his characters, isn't new. But a group of physicists now thinks they know of a way to test the concept. Three of them propose to test reality by simulating the simulators.
Martin Savage, professor of physics at the University of Washington, Zohreh Davoudi, one of his graduate students, and Silas Beane of the University of New Hampshire, would like to see whether they can find traces of simulation in cosmic rays. The work was uploaded in arXiv, an online archive for drafts of academic research papers.
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Scientist To Test Reality
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Re: Scientist To Test Reality
I wonder how much money this cost?
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Re: Scientist To Test Reality
If it's all a simulation, then it doesn't matter, it's all fake.........rgrokelley wrote:I wonder how much money this cost?
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Ranger Class 13-70
MACV Tm 21 70-71 (2nd ARVN Ranger Gp 23d
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2/13 Armor 1st Cav 71-72
"Experience teaches a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and some scarce in that"
Re: Scientist To Test Reality
I'd like to physically check every female Dr.s rack to verify their mental facilities and their sensual reactions to my hands before I wake up.
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4/325 82d DIV 68-69
2nd Bde HHC (LRRP), 4 ID
K Co (Rgr), 75th Inf (Abn), 4 ID
69-70
I cooked with C- 4