A computer simulated universe is very possible (and Cosmology recognizes this possibility). The nagging problem with this scenario is accumulative database errors. Thus, numerous layers of error-correcting software would have to be employed.
The possibility was discussed at length at a Cosmology symposium.In order for the universe to be a computer simulation you would need to actually need numbers to exist, but they don't exist. Cheers.
The possibility was discussed at length at a Cosmology symposium.
The broad consensus - such a universe is indeed possible.
A computer simulated universe is very possible (and Cosmology recognizes this possibility). The nagging problem with this scenario is accumulative database errors. Thus, numerous layers of error-correcting software would have to be employed.
And you're talking about numbers, software, hardware and database errors which must include numbers to exist in the first place in a real world, there are no numbers in the real world, so why cosmology considers this in the first place, if they don't have anything to start with, the most important and crucial evidence to start with-the existence of numbers in the physical world!
Numbers and database errors do not exist in the real world.
Cheers.
the inhabitants of the simulated universe could not know that their universe is simulated because they are only able to "see" using particles in that simulated universe
Numbers do not have to exist in the real world for a simulated universe, for the algorithm used to predict the fundamental forces and mass are all that is needed for this. Also, the inhabitants of the simulated universe could not know that their universe is simulated because they are only able to "see" using particles in that simulated universe, which the algorithms show up nowhere in.
Yes. Everything that your brain processes and outputs as your awareness is a simulation of the universe as it pertains to the continuation of your DNA.
I read through most of this thread, and I am completely intrigued by it. I made an account for the sole purpose of discussing this matter further, for I see that many of the claims made to argue this theory have no evidence to back it. Numbers do not have to exist in the real world for a simulated universe, for the algorithm used to predict the fundamental forces and mass are all that is needed for this. Also, the inhabitants of the simulated universe could not know that their universe is simulated because they are only able to "see" using particles in that simulated universe, which the algorithms show up nowhere in. Database errors do in fact exist, unless you are using the wrong term for database error. Fragmentation, overwriting, bad data writing algorithms/programs: all of these can cause an incorrect database
~Electrical engineer with knowledge in Quantum Physics and Genetics
It all seems so real.. I am not wanting out of the Matrix. I like what I have. Let me stay a coppertop, for now.
If the Matrix crashes do I wake up?