Scientists find evidence that we are living in a computer simulation

[Midwest]

generation lost is what we are in now.

 

[Tha Snowman]

even when there is a photo, an observation is being made.....there doesn't have to be a human there but a measurement has to be made......then the program renders the environment once a measurement is taken.......if no measurement is taken then it doesn't render the environment

there are many experiments talking about this....the most simple is the double slit experiment......read up on it......stated simply it says that when a conscious observer is NOT looking matter behaves as a probabilistic wave function......that is it doesn't exist as an actual object but just as math.....however once there is an observation made the wave function collapses to form particles that make up everything we see around us

the double slit experiment and all other experiments like it show that particles behave differently when we are not looking......it was because of this aspect of quantum mechanics that Einstein found troubling....he is quoted famously as asking his friend physicist Neils Bohr if he really believes that the Moon disappears when no one is looking at it......Bohr responded "how do you know the Moon exists when no one is looking at it"

Actually, the double slit experiment has to do with diffraction due to the wave/particle duality of things like light and electrons. Pretty recently, people have come up with a way around this by modifying the wave function of a beam of particles so that they don't diffract and can actually re-converge after passing around an obstacle.

 

[BlvdBrawler]

could you explain? how could self-awareness preclude the fact we are in a simulation?

what you think is self-awareness is simply the result of electrical signals firing in your brain.....if I turned off those neurons you wouldn't be self-aware.....if I could copy those firings and simulate them in a computer.....why would I not be able to make a simulated being feel the same sense of self-awareness?

Could be. But I guess I meant free-will. Like the decisions I make daily would seem to conflict with the paramaters of what we would expect as part of a simulation; specifically deterministic inputs. *But* any sufficiently advanced simulation could simulate free-will type decisions as deterministic inputs, and thus this would be a simulation after all.

Basically, .


Edit: Plus this kinda conflicts with my understanding of quantum physics.... unless it's a quantum-physics simulation wherein the goal is to observe the overlapping waves of probability, but then you couldn't really see the output because it would be corrupted or existing in another dimension.

In closing, .

Edit again: I'm drunk, sorry if I'm not making sense.

 

[Swagnificent]

Actually, the double slit experiment has to do with diffraction due to the wave/particle duality of things like light and electrons. Pretty recently, people have come up with a way around this by modifying the wave function of a beam of particles so that they don't diffract and can actually re-converge after passing around an obstacle.

I know. I was simply dumbing it down so as to explain the implications of wave/particle duality when considering the simulation hypothesis. The fact remains that quantum mechanics IMPLIES that when an observer is not looking matter becomes diffuse wave functions. Only when an observer looks does it collapse to form the particles we believe make up the world.

What is this new study you are talking about. Could you post the paper? If you are talking about the delayed choice quantum eraser experiment then I've already read up on that.

Also, the double slit experiment has been performed using more than just light and electrons. Here is an article talking about how scientists are now using entire molecules and finding the same results as when they used subatomic particles. Double-Slit Experiment Performed With Large Molecules | Geekosystem

A team at the University of Vienna in Austria, however, announced they completed the experiment using very large molecules instead of photons.

The research team used heavy molecules made up of 56 atoms and 114 atoms, which is noteworthy because not only did complex molecules behave like a wave, but because the complex molecules change their shape when passing through the slit.

we really do live in a simulation brehs

 

[Captain Crunch]

I'm a character in a damn video game

 

[Jparker]

I hate talking about stuff like this when I'm high, it makes me want to kill myself just so I can see if I'm really alive or not and if there's a heaven and hell

 

[Malik]

 

[George Gooney]

More cac science??? Ain't no software advanced enough to create nikkas like me... You'd need that divine touch

 

[EQ.]

:shook:

 

[SumBlackguyz]

b-b-b-b-but god cant exist

 

[Swagnificent]

b-b-b-b-but god cant exist

unless your religion teaches God is a computer programmer you need to STFU

all religions are nonsense because they are created by man and have no evidence supporting them.....the simulation theory might support the existence of a creator/God who wrote the program of the universe.....but that doesn't mean this programmer is any of the thousands of Gods different human cultures have created......or that this programmer actually cares about our actions and will judge us in some "afterlife"

if this programmer wanted us to know about him, then he did a pretty bad job since human cultures have created thousands of different "Gods"

 

[BlvdBrawler]

the simulation theory might support the existence of a creator/God who wrote the program of the universe.....

What's sad is, this makes several orders of magnitude more sense than any religious text I've read, and yet we still have people giving their lives away to fairy tales.

 

[SumBlackguyz]

unless your religion teaches God is a computer programmer you need to STFU

all religions are nonsense because they are created by man and have no evidence supporting them.....the simulation theory might support the existence of a creator/God who wrote the program of the universe.....but that doesn't mean this programmer is any of the thousands of Gods different human cultures have created......or that this programmer actually cares about our actions and will judge us in some "afterlife"

if this programmer wanted us to know about him, then he did a pretty bad job since human cultures have created thousands of different "Gods"

i dont like to use the word god, because a god is just a creation of the mind to suit one of many attributes we give to who we believe is our higher power.

I just refer to him as the creator.

but if everything holds up, this theory does connect more dots than others

 

[Will Ross]

LOL

 

[Turbulent]

semi-related to this, i've often wondered if i'm the only "real" conscious being and everyone else was some sort of illusion.