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• Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation - Huffington Post
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An article from Chuck Missler's www.khouse.org eletter - you can sign up for a free subscription on his website.
Ignore the Man Behind the Curtain
from the June 04, 2013 eNews issue
Ever
since the birth of Quantum Theory there has been speculation—some
privately held, some very public—of what the implications of the
existence of quanta really means. As measuring devices improved
dramatically, they provided more clarity to the issue. Today it is an
accepted “truth” that everything is quantized. Energy (as well as
length, time, and mass) exists in discrete quantities, divisions if you
will.
There
are also other side-effects to this discovery. Everything is
“connected.” All particles on the quantum level know what the other
particles are doing, regardless of distance, instantaneously. Let that
sink in. Also, there is a size at which, when dividing the particle in
half, it becomes “non-local.” It is nowhere and everywhere. Every
measurement of the universe in which we reside has a “quantum
limitation.”
Since
what we know of reality is based solely on our perception (what we see,
hear, feel, taste and smell), it appears there is a foundational
structure upon which all of the details “hang.”
If
we entertain the idea that the Universe is not gravitationally based
but is electrical, it certainly would fit even our most common
understanding of a computer-generated simulation. Because of the many
difficulties with the gravitational model of the universe, many
physicists are being convinced of an electrical model. Many of the
issues concerning missing mass, celestial interactions, black holes and
the abnormality of temperatures on our own Sun dissolve with the
electrical theory.
There is a movie from a few years back (The Thirteenth Floor)
in which the simulated characters of a simulated world are confronted
with the fundamental limitations of their “reality.” Because of the
limitations of structure, they were forced to conclude they were living
within a “program” created by an outside source.
Ironically,
this is where the physicists of our time find themselves. Disregarding
what the Bible has said all along, of course, they are seeking to
quantify and confirm the obvious, yet unwanted, conclusion to where the
evidence is leading them. Like all good “scientists” they are trying to
creatively foster any explanation other than a Creator that loves them
and has been trying to inform them in every way possible.
The
more they learn about the foundations of our reality, the more the idea
of an underlying structure to space/time is confirmed. Millions of
dollars are being spent in preparation for the design and construction
of experiments to “test” the simulation theory.
Right
now at the University of Bonn, nuclear physicist Silas Beane and some
of his colleagues have come up with a test that exploits this feature of
simulations; their need to be discretized, or quantized.
Beane
and company believe we can test to see if the universe 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 simulation:
“In our universe, the laws of physics are the same in every direction. But in a grid, this changes since you no longer have a space-time continuum, and the laws of physics would depend on direction. Simulators would be able to hide this effect but they wouldn’t be able to get rid of it completely.”
Beane
and company are testing by creating their own simulations. They are
presently simulating quantum chromodynamics (QCD), which is the
fundamental force in nature that produces the strong nuclear force among
protons and neutrons, and to nuclei and their interactions. In place of
the space-time continuum, they have designed tiny, tightly spaced cubic
“lattices.” They call this “lattice gauge theory.” After observing
their models, they then compare them to real world observations.
Interestingly,
the researchers consider their simulation to be just a beginning. As
computational development takes place, they envision more powerful
versions in which molecules, cells, and even humans themselves might
someday be simulated. But for now, they’re interested in creating
accurate models of cosmological processes — and finding out which ones
might show evidence of an underlying lattice.
On
the possibility that we do live in a simulation he says, “There is a
famous argument that we probably do live in a simulation. The idea is
that in the future, humans will be able to simulate entire universes
quite easily (approximately 500 years). And given the vastness of time
ahead, the number of these simulations is likely to be huge. So if you
ask the question: ‘Do we live in the one true reality or in one of the
many simulations?’ the answer, statistically speaking, is that we’re
more likely to be living in a simulation.”
The
interesting analysis that drives them is that we have “noticed” that
our reality has limitations. It is not a foregone conclusion that if
some alien culture is behind this simulation, it would be constructed in
a way we could understand it. Since we can, at least so far, understand
its limitations, this means one of two things; either the designer is
like us or it is constructed for our discovery. Either scenario causes
secular scientists headaches. How could “they” be like us when they are
capable of such technologies? And why would they care that we can
discover limitations that should be invisible to the participant?
Many
are seeing this edge of reality as an obstacle to be overcome. They
talk of entering into the “real world” by their own intellect and
effort. This is vaguely reminiscent of the Tower of Babel. As man
stumbles forward, the higher probability is of misstep. If God acted at
Babel to halt their development capabilities, what more could He have in
store for us now?
Related Links:
• Physicists Say There May Be a Way to Prove That We Live in a Computer Simulation - io9• Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation - Huffington Post
___________BE SURE YOU KNOW THE CREATOR OF THE PROGRAM :-) CMR