Neil deGrasse Tyson thinks there's a 'very high' chance the universe is just a simulation

Business Insider ^ | 04/22/2016 | Kevin Loria

[Bobalu]

So God writes code in His spare time?

Yup, bare-metal assembly code.

[Nothing unreal exists]

[smokingfrog]

What if God built the computer?

[Lx]

I have never heard someone who is so in love with his own voice. It is maddening to listen to him. Makes O look humble.

[Aria]

Does this mean I don’t have to pay my bills?

Honestly I’ve sometimes wondered if this is a chrysalis state and when we die we are really born.

[Lx]

He tests it in production as well.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

I always thought how could you prove times exists if memory didn’t? For example if you put an apple on a table and moved it to a new spot on the table, if you didn’t have memory you would think the apple was always in that new position. Or if you looked in a mirror and stuck your tongue out, would you detect the movement of your tongue or would you think it was alway existed in one certain position with each new position of that movement?

[TTFX]

an idiot trying to sound smart

[NormsRevenge]

Hey Neil! Line 3,, Morgan Freeman wants to chat about God and the implications if you were correct.

[dfwgator]

"Can I buy some pot from you?"

[smokingfrog]

[Kickass Conservative]

Just stop paying your Income Taxes and the Reality of your existence will become crystal clear.

[Kickass Conservative]

Check out the Movie “Lucy”. It will all become clear.

[pepsi_junkie]

But he’s sure there’s no God.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I know someone who has pretty good long-term memory, but because of brain damage has no short-term memory whatsoever. He doesn’t know what was just said five minutes ago or, as in the example you cited, he has no idea of the applewas moved 6 inches over just a minute or two ago.

[CrazyIvan]

I have a friend who is the head of physics at a prestigious college. He once told me that any “discovery” should be prefaced by the qualifying statement “At our present level of ignorance we assume that....”

[Charles Martel]

So God writes code in His spare time?

[tbw2]

You beat me to it.

[jwalsh07]

:-) LDA Universe

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Him and Steven Hawkings, which one is the bigger idiot?

[CaptainK]

I feel like a mean person because I laughed at that.