Have you ever wondered if we are someone else’s dream? And if so, whose dream are we? Ancient religions have posed these questions for thousands of years, and science may finally be catching up…

 

 

Physicists testing to see if universe is a computer simulation

By Eric Pfeiffer, Yahoo! News

 

“Could this be a computer simulation? (Space.com)

Will you take the red pill or the blue pill?

 

Some physicists and university researchers say it’s possible to test the theory that our entire universe exists inside a computer simulation, like in the 1999 film “The Matrix.”

 

In 2003, University of Oxford philosophy professor Nick Bostrom published a paper, “The Simulation Argument,” which argued that, “we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation.” Now, a team at Cornell University says it has come up with a viable method for testing whether we’re all just a series of numbers in some ancient civilization’s computer game…”

 

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