Wired Earp
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Anyone have any ideas about this simulation hypothesis that says we are in a holographic computer simulation. There is at least 1 professional simulation programmer who says QT, relativity, the Big Bang, and entropy all point to it yet doesn't tend believe it himself. Here's what he says about QT:
" When you look at the very smallest things - their behavior is random and quantized. In a finite precision computer, that's exactly what you'd expect. There would be randomness due to things like roundoff error and because of that finite precision, you'd see quantized behavior in all sorts of very small systems. Old flight simulators from the 1980's used to have a precision of 1/256th of a foot - if you lived in that simulation, you'd say that the laws of physics quantised all distances to a "planck length" of 1/256th of a foot and invent complicated 'laws of physics' to explain that."
" When you look at the very smallest things - their behavior is random and quantized. In a finite precision computer, that's exactly what you'd expect. There would be randomness due to things like roundoff error and because of that finite precision, you'd see quantized behavior in all sorts of very small systems. Old flight simulators from the 1980's used to have a precision of 1/256th of a foot - if you lived in that simulation, you'd say that the laws of physics quantised all distances to a "planck length" of 1/256th of a foot and invent complicated 'laws of physics' to explain that."