Physicists May Have Evidence the Universe is a Computer Simulation

[Mike70]

Yeah, where are my rocket boots and my pet dragon you ass-holes! there are pet dragons?? i've wanted one of those for years but Danny convinced me that they weren't real. he's been keeping the dragon trade to himself. a snoopy fist shake in his general direction.

[Trancelikestate]

I thought I had good drugs.

[Tricky]

Ah, but it's not infinite you see, dear boy. The universe is finite. It's expanding into nothing and creating something as it goes. For nothing, don't read space, read Nothing. No time, no dimensions, NOTHING. The blast wave of the Big Bang is the act of creation on the move. Here's the rub. The data suggests that there are many more dimensions than we are aware of - Expressed by the Calabi-Yau shape, pictured. That's the small ones... my mind boggles, so don't worry if yours does too. On a larger scale, the universe is not infinite because it is governed by the speed of light. Apparently it will run full circle and disappear up its own arrse at some point. A dimensional issue. When it does, time will end. So it has a time budget and a Speed of Light governor. So. Were you to fly at full pelt until the end of time, the universe would end and so would time. You would be left in a void with no reference points.... effectively right back where you started. Nowhere at all in relation to anywhere else and because time had ended too, you wouldn't have spent any time doing it because time would no longer be a commodity. The concept of infinity, viewed like this, becomes pretty manageable I think. It's the concept of NOTHING that's the head fuck. NOTHING exploded with such violence. Everything you see as 'something' is just energy and will eventually return to that state. 'Nothing'. And when it becomes nothing it will never have existed. Even if it happens again. Far out, huh? Nicked from another forum where I posted that link, makes the head pop!

[Kaos]

I love PKD's brand of madness:

[AcesandEights]

I love PKD's brand of madness... I love PKD's stuff, even some of his cheesier super-1950s twilight-zone style stories, like the one where protagonist meets his end in a giant alien frying pan ().

[Kaos]

Hey Ace, do you know what PKD fans call themselves? Dickheads! Awesome.

[AcesandEights]

Hey Ace, do you know what PKD fans call themselves? Dickheads! Awesome. I do really like some of his stuff, but don't know if I'd go that far...maybe just consider me a Dick enthusiast. Edit: So sorry for derailing this otherwise interesting thread!

[Mr. Clean]

I keep waiting for telekinesis or something else great to show an advancement in the human race but instead we backpedal and acknowledge some retarded hypothesis as a possibility.

[Kaos]

I keep waiting for telekinesis or something else great to show an advancement in the human race but instead we backpedal and acknowledge some retarded hypothesis as a possibility. I knew we would get one of you out of the woodwork. Welcome to the asylum, Mr. Clean.

[Mr. Clean]

I knew we would get one of you out of the woodwork. Welcome to the asylum, Mr. Clean. I went to work yesterday thinking about this majority of the day. I came to the conclusion that if we are really stuck in simulation then our only hope is to force communication with the 3 dimensional printer attached to the computer running this show. It's the only way to escape the simulation and cut ourselves free of our these limits. Now, how we do that may seem to be a difficult or nearly impossible task but I predict that it could be as easy as hitting a nuclear warhead with a hammer. So in theory, the Japanese were the first humans out of this damn simulation and perhaps the very first creature was some a prairie dog or rattlesnake hanging out in the deserts of New Mexico during the first nuclear test. I believe the diameter of my baldspot just doubled in size.....

[jded]

So wondering, is there more on this than the brief article? Remember in the Matrix when Neo is set free and mentions to Morpheus about, I believe it was a strain on his eyes or something of that nature, and Morpheus's response is that he's finally seeing the world as it really is? Well, I've noticed lately and in the past that my eyes ache at certain times. I don't know. Maybe it's sinuses, or maybe it's my contacts. I don't know. Maybe I'm the one.

[blind2d]

Haha, wow... Dude... Like, it's so true... But hey, don't forget... Like, Poe spotted this first, man. 'All that we see or seem, is but a dream, within a dream'. Y'know? It's so damn true. I love Poe. He made me an existentialist in fifth grade. Gotta give thanks. Anyhow, what does it matter anyway? Enjoy life while you can, for any second it may end. My thoughts.

[jded]

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[Kaos]

This sounds a lot like what Mike was talking about: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/50232422...ience-science/

[Neil]

Fascinating stuff isn't it. But I don't understand how we can determine we're in a simulation!? Indeed, what's to say we're not even a simulation within a simulation etc!?