Physicists Develop Test to Determine if the World is a Computer Simulation
World is a Computer Simulation
Physicists Develop
Test to Determine if the World is a Computer Simulation
One
of the more unusual topics in the academic blogosphere currently revolves
around a physics professor’s contention that the world is not real, but merely
the product of a computer simulation.
Martin
Savage at theUniversity of Washingtonsays it
is quite possible the universe was created by our descendants, or other beings,
using sophisticated software.
And,
Savage contends, he has devised a way to test if the theory is true.
Along
with two other colleagues, Savage offered an explanation of his proposed
test—involving the examination of cosmic rays and how they travel—in a new
paper (“Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation”) to proof
his theory.
Savage
is not the first academic to propose that the universe is not real.Nick Bostrom, a
philosophy professor at theUniversity
of Oxford, offered a computer simulation idea in 2003, which prompted
Savage to take a crack at proving it.
Since
a story on Savage’s paper was published by the university, the web page has received
more than 100,000 views in just a week, setting off a lively discussion among
students and professors about what is real and the state of consciousness.
Many
find the theory intriguing and plausible, including physicists who are
interested in testing it. Others are highly skeptical, including one respondent
who wrote: “You folks take yourselves way too seriously. This is proof we
never should have legalized marijuana.”
Abstract(by Silas R. Beane, Zohreh Davoudi, Martin J. Savage, Cornell
University Library)
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