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Posted on 04/24/2016 7:20:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We trust the scientists around us to have the best grasp on how the world actually works.
So at this year's 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate at the American Museum of Natural History, which addressed the question of whether the universe is a simulation, the answers from some panelists may be more comforting than the responses from others.
Physicist Lisa Randall, for example, said that she thought the odds that the universe isn't "real" are so low as to be "effectively zero."
A satisfying answer for those who don't want to sit there puzzling out what it would mean for the universe not to be real, to be sure.
But on the other hand, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, who was hosting the debate, said that he thinks the likelihood of the universe being a simulation "may be very high."
Uh-oh?
The question of whether we know that our universe is real has vexed thinkers going far back into history, long before Descartes made his famous "I think, therefore I am" statement. The same question has been explored in modern science-fiction films like "The Matrix" and David Cronenberg's "Existenz."
But most physicists and philosophers agree that it's impossible to prove definitively that we don't live in a simulation and that the universe is real.
Tyson agrees, but says that he wouldn't be surprised if we were to find out somehow that someone else is responsible for our universe.
One of the main arguments that physicists use to talk about what's known as the "simulation hypothesis" is that if we can prove that it's possible to simulate a universe — if we can figure out all the laws that govern how everything works, which physicists are trying to do —
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Neil deGrasse Tyson is another ‘popularizer’ of science. Like Bill Nye and Carl Sagan before him. It’s a schtick. These guys — well maybe not Nye — are probably experts in a particular field, but nobody can claim the kind of general expertise that these guys are.
It would be one thing to have people like deGrasse Tyson if we were actually attempting to educate our children in math-science-engineering. But we’re not. So we’re left with a kind of pseudo-religion with Mr. Tyson as one of it’s High Priests.
Tyson is a “Baghdad Bob” for NASA. He has been instructed to lie to the populace. However, in this case, his overlords have instructed him to mix a morsel of truth with his lies.
I believe that we will find out that eventually that the heavens and the earth are constructed just as described in the Bible.
Does this mean I can stop paying my taxes ?
agreed on that. the bible (and i believe Jesus speaks of these things too) says each type of creature/object in the creation has its own “glory”, that they communicate (we can’t hear), that there is a powerful metaphysical realm with armies of supernatural entities who are powerful themselves (humans faint, fall down, etc whenever they encounter one) and have their own organizational structure and dominion over which they exert control (good or bad). We cant see them ordinarily.
It’s very difficult to imagine such an existence. Think of your brain rebooting every 30 seconds to maybe five minutes, with no memory of that time period. He is under constant care and supervision of course. If he left the place he lives he couldn’t find his way home except by sheer luck. Yet he can go on and on about stories from his youth.
Welcome to the Matrix.
Another way of saying it: the universe is a dream in the mind of God.
Fermilab will measure smallest details of space time and test if the universe is a hologram in 2011
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2614807/posts
and I’m pretty sure I have all the FRchival topics in order in this keyword:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/holographicblurring/index
Sam Kinison’s last words were “but why now? Why now? Oh, okay, okay, okay...”
So Neil now believes in Intelligent Design, by default?
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