Government Researchers Think We May Be Living in a 2D Hologram

a reply to: spacemanjupiter

All that would be true of a
holographic simulation

a reply to: grandmakdw

What do you call the people who bound by genetics to look to, or worship a creator? Are they subhumans, or mutants?

Our entire universe could be simulated with some simple rules and a couple of basic particles to start with. Like the quote in my sig says, everything comes from hydrogen, which is a proton and electron.

It shouldn't be too long before we have enough computing power to run a detailed enough universe simulation ourselves. Then we would be a simulation that has created a simulated universe. Maybe our simulators are themselves in a simulation and so on. And maybe the intelligences that emerge in our simulation go on to produce their own simulation. At the top of this chain of simulation there might be some computing hardware in a real universe that runs the original simulation and all the sub simulations.

Food for thought....

a reply to: EasyPleaseMe

Our entire universe could be simulated with some simple rules and a couple of basic particles to start with.

Why do so many confuse holographic theory with simulation?

a reply to: Phage

I don't know. And I just did it !

space, time ,
and our perception of reality ,
is just that . .... our perception .
The illusion of physical existence within
the confines of a dynamic universe ,
is certainly possible .
An illusion so complete ,as to be real
I guess ya find out when ya die ....

originally posted by: weirdguy
I think people need to come up with wacky idea's so their department receives funding grants. I wonder if this "matrix" theory existed before the movie came about. I'm pretty open minded but this is to weird even for me.

Sounds more like The Thirteenth Floor to me than the matrix. That there is a "real" world out there which has created this one.