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[Necuno]

Physicists devise test to see if we're living in 'The Matrix'

If we were in a computer simulation right now, how would we even know? Well, University of Bonn nuclear physicist Silas Beane and some of his colleagues have come up with a test that exploits a feature of said simulations; their need to be discretized. In the physical world, distances can be infinitesimally small, but not so in the world of computers where things need to have a limited set of values. Researchers use a lattice (i.e., 3D graph paper) to model how the strong nuclear force works over time on a femto scale. As the scale gets smaller and smaller, the simulation eventually hits a limit on how much energy particles can have. This phenomenon has an analog in the physical world called the Greisen-Zatsepin-Zuzmin (GZK) cut off, and Beane and company believe we can test to see if it behaves the way we expect from theory, or the way we’d expect in a discretized model like a computer simulation. If the latter is true, it would provide evidence that we are all stuck in a computer...[link]

 

[Dohc-WP]

i swear these scientist type folk is almal befok !

 

[sycogrim]

i swear these scientist type folk is almal befok !

looooooooooooooooooool aren't 90% of scientists crazy regardless??

 

[Tsar]

Well we might all live in the matrix but it really doesn't matter. Even if we are AI still have to live our lives.

Personally I would just leave it alone it would be so kak to find out you are nothing more than a simulation. lol.

 

[Neo]

And these are the same people discrediting religions on a daily basis. Lol wp gg etc.

 

[Necuno]

And these are the same people discrediting religions on a daily basis. Lol wp gg etc.

One can only take opium that much

 

[JP'S]

Whatever their taking ill take two xD

 

[Necuno]

Whatever their taking ill take two xD

Might be two year old frot socks *sick*

 

[JP'S]

Might be two year old frot socks *sick*

Haha wonder who's supplying?

 

[MOnk]

Problem with that 'test' is the logic chain is faulty.

Silas Beane and some of his colleagues have come up with a test that exploits a feature of said simulations; their need to be discretized.

That statement isn't true. Digital systems work discretely but you get analogue computers. Sure they still use electricity so would have a maximum resolution of 1eV (electron volt) but it's conceivable that some advanced civilization would be able to create a technology which would operate on energy(strings, quarks, whatever) at a more fundamental level. Thus having the same 'resolution' as the universe.

So a simulation need not be discrete, therefore proving the universe isn't discrete doesn't prove we aren't in the matrix.