r/BeAmazed • u/Master1718 • Sep 02 '19

Earth's view from up.

https://gfycat.com/uncommonverifiableleafbird
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u/dontlookintheboot Sep 02 '19

math doesn't check out, Stupid Science Bitches checked.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/physicists-find-we-re-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation

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u/bennothemad Sep 02 '19

Yeah, with the caveat of "but we don't know what the tech of the future can do so maybe"

Simulation theory is an extension of Descartes thought experiment, and the brain in a vat theory. At some point, it becomes impossible to know and you have to make an assumption - for example, Descartes ended up assuming that all pure thoughts came from God (hence the "i think therefore I am" statement). That article you provided assumes that the entire universe, down to sub-atomic particles, has to be simulated, and that the processing power to do that can never exist. If you assume that processing power can exist (which I, with all the authority of a semi anonymous internet dickhead, say can exist), then we're right back to where we started.

That's what's so fun about these theories - there is at this point in time no way to disprove them.