Scientists will determine whether we live in The Matrix - Basketball Forum : Professional and College Basketball Forums

**RollWithEm** · 12-17-2012, 06:59 AM

http://www.geekologie.com/2012/12/wa...ests-to-de.php

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Currently, computer simulations are decades away from creating even a primitive working model of the universe. In fact, scientists are able to accurately model only a 100 trillionth of a meter, with work to create a model of a full human being still out of reach.

By looking for underlying patterns, physicists believe that it may be possible to work out if we are existing in a computer created universe, created many years in the future. Looking at constraints imposed on simulations by limited resources could show signs that we are mere bit-part players in a Matrix-style film plot.

It will take many years to reach the computational power to give a real glimpse of whether we are living in a simulation, the scientists contend, but even by looking at the tiny portion of the universe that we can currently accurately model, it may be possible to detect 'signatures' of constraints on physical processes that could point to a simulation.

The logical part of me says, "What a waste if time. Go out and cure disease or something!"

The rest of me says, "Might as well check, right? Just in case?"

e-monk · 12-17-2012, 11:36 AM

this is like Descartes with his deconstructions of percieved reality - fruitless and in the end unknowable even if it werent (in this instance) complete bullshit - if one posits the potential existence of such an arrangement then one can assume that the machines capable of producing it would also be capable of thwarting any such attempts to surmise its existence

Im with Dr Jonson "I refute him (Berkeley) thus" {kicks a stone}

12-17-2012, 11:36 AM	#2 (permalink)
e-monk All-Star Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 5,843 Rep Power: 3274359	Re: Scientists will determine whether we live in The Matrix this is like Descartes with his deconstructions of percieved reality - fruitless and in the end unknowable even if it werent (in this instance) complete bullshit - if one posits the potential existence of such an arrangement then one can assume that the machines capable of producing it would also be capable of thwarting any such attempts to surmise its existence Im with Dr Jonson "I refute him (Berkeley) thus" {kicks a stone}

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