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How to tell if the Universe is a computer simulation
mahesh2k:
If a quantum description of the universe is correct (and most indications seem to point in that direction) then are we actually characters in a future version of the Sims? The capricious nature of some human behaviour perhaps suggests so ;-)
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It reminds me of this paper.
40hz:
We are all just ideas spontaneously emerging and fading in the mind of Steven Jobs.
Oh me!...oh my!...AUM!
Shanti! :'(
Stoic Joker:
We are all just ideas spontaneously emerging and fading in the mind of Steven Jobs. Shanti! :'(
-40hz (October 11, 2012, 01:09 PM)
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OH DEAR GOD, the Shame! The Horror! :'( ...I have to go kill myself immediately. :-[
superboyac:
i wouldn't be so certain of the quantum theories. they have as many holes as, um, *other* theories. If you're interested, I've attached a really great summary of all that stuff in a short ~100 page document.
superboyac:
Since vision seems to be our most convincing sense, I always like to know what's the smallest thing we are actually able to see without needing to resort to artist's conceptions or shadows and such. Here's one of them:
That's the tip of a needle made of tungsten. Each ball is supposedly an individual atom. Although, I think this is a colorized image. But that's ok, at least it's still an actual picture of something.
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