Enter the Matrix - (science)

[RedjackRyan]

A New Zealand physicist has written a paper (http://arxiv.org/abs/0801.0337) saying that physicists should seriously explore the possibility the universe is a giant virtual reality simulation (http://www.newscientist.com/blog/technology/2008/01/vr-hypothesis.html). He says that the existence of quantum phenomena could be due to the underlying digital nature of the simulation and also claims his VR hypothesis can explain relativity, the big bang and more. It should be possible to perform experiments to prove the hypothesis too. He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual."

[gisli]

Comments: The argument that virtual reality information simulations may be relevant to modern physics theory is a little outside the mainstream, but even people in Physics now consider this possibility, e.g. Svozil

Intresting idea and why not? What we usually do is word our understanding from the information we have....and our information is always changing. Once we thought our world was flat on the back of a turtle.

Now we believe in Big Bang......but that theory, if it is the true one, has many errors to it.......the biggest vulnerability of the Big Bang theory is the timing of the Bang. So for the theory, if to work, one has to admit the precense of some force, we can call it what we will, God is not such a bad word.

Einstein said once that the more he understands The Universe, the more he beliefs in this force we call God....so why not????? Bring on the proofs and let´s disguss this new theory. But who created the Creator?

[DaveM]

The area I live in is possible proof that the universe is a virtual reality simulation. I cannot believe that such a place could evolve by blind chance.

Of course, it could also serve as proof of an intelligent Creator. After all, he had to have someplace to dump the leftovers.

[Eva]

Didn't we call that 'other dimensions' back in the eighties?

Eva