Are we just players in a game?
Qins research shows how the technology of a simulated universe could work in practice, experts say.
“Essentially, I bypassed all the fundamental ingredients of physics.
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I go directly from data to data,” Qin said ina news release.
“There is no law of physics in the middle.”
It might make your head spin a little to consider that nothing around you would be physical.
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Qins work was inspired by Oxford philosopher Nick Bostroms philosophical thought experiment that the universe is a computer simulation.
If the simulation theory is correct, how worried should we be?
Virk says that it depends on whether we are living in a simulation.
Kipping said that, if we do live in a simulation, it might not affect our daily lives.
