Posted on 08/19/2015 11:05:23 AM PDT by spirited irish
well... that was 5 minutes of my life I will never get back
Amazing that there are almost no theories that are considered too ridiculous to even consider. Naturally, I have to qualify my comment with the word “almost” because there is no way that many scientists would ever give ANY serious consideration to an intelligent design theory to explain the creation of the universe.
Just ask them, and I’d sure they’d say “God forbid ... um, er, I mean - no way.”
BEEP!
Well, don’t let Killary near the server, she’ll wipe it.
” If we were a computer simulation we would observe glitches in reality analogous to those found in computer games.”
You mean like ghosts, demons and other spirit world things; UFO’s; grey men; Bigfoot; the Loch Ness monster and so forth?
Heard something like this on the Sasquatch Show(Coast to Coast AM).
It is interesting to see how atheists who don’t believe in God and put faith in science to this extreme:
* say there is no god but seek to create one via the Singularity
* put faith in models created by people as the gospel truth, instead of being at best an educated guess, to the exclusion of contrary interpretations or real world observations
* keep looking for aliens as surrogate angels
* say there is no God but elevate artificial intelligences to that level
Interesting speculation.
Quantum physics tells us that all there is in the Universe is energy and information. The energy is the substance, and the information is what causes the energy to take specific forms and not others. Until then, things are non-local, meaning they’re everywhere and ewverywhen at once.
Actually, the reality of graying out under G loading debunks the concept of “simulation” or its cousins.
42: The question is: “How many formulas/methodologies define the entire universe?”
The World is a Computer Simulation in Minds of Robotic Overlords, who are a computer simulation in the minds of their robotic overlords, who are a computer simulation in the minds of their robotic overlords, who are a computer simulation in the minds of their robotic overlords, who are a computer simulation in the minds of their robotic overlords, etc....
What? No one welcoming our new robotic overlords yet?
Pinto: [to Professor Jennings, while high] Okay. That means that our whole solar system could be, like one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. [Jennings nods] This is too much! That means one tiny atom in my fingernail could be--
Professor Jennings: Could be one little tiny universe.
Pinto: Could I buy some pot from you?
Are those vegan gel caps? Because I don’t eat any animal derived products.
And if his mother walks into the room he's going to hit the delete button on us all.
Does any one have the easter egg that will make my feet stop hurting and put $500,000.00 in my bank account?
This is the craziest thing I’ve ever read.
That's a very information-theoretic argument and is the key to understanding why the universe is not a simulation. If the universe is the simplest representation of itself then any "simulation" of the universe would, of necessity, be larger than the universe itself. However the term "universe" means "everything", so positing the existence of something larger than everything would clearly be self-contradictory.
“Ain’t nobody got time for this foolishness!”
Sorry, I was hungry and made a deviled egg out of it.
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