Which pill would you take when you found out the Matrix was real?

[Kamal]

How Do We Know Were Not Living Inside A Massive Computer Simulation? | Popular Science

[unkle]

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Someone is watching too much television.

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Read about this, quite fascinating.

But

In the world of theoretical physics, things can more or less be limitless, but in computers things have to have limits. This is one of the problems with these kinds of simulations; the laws of physics have to be placed in a constrained, 3-D space--a lattice--that is limited by the nature of the computer sim.

if there're superbeings simulating us, would they not be operating from a higher dimension and our 3D is only an extrusion from their dimension?

Stands to reason that we live in a 3D system so the beings simulating us are not part of this 3D system but at a higher hierarchy. Like how scientists would look down into lab rats in a maze.

[Kamal]

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You're absolutely right, which is why I don't believe in the humanized depiction of God. But by virtue of the experiment, they are looking to replicate documented ways in which the quantum world works vs. if it will in fact work in the simulation. The rest of the article from what you quoted goes on to read

Beane and his colleagues are exploring whether or not these lattices alter the physical processes we have observed in the universe. Specifically, they are looking at high energy processes, which get smaller and smaller the more energetic they become. Beane and company have found that these 3-D lattices impose a limit on the amount of energy these processes can have, because nothing occurring within the sim can be smaller than the lattice itself. So, if we are living inside of a computer program, there should be a fundamental limit within the spectrum of high energy particles, like cosmic ray particles.

And there is. That’s the GZK cut off. It’s well-studied and well-defined, and occurs because over time and distance cosmic ray particles interact with the cosmic microwave background and lose energy. So, if Beane and his friends are correct, we can measure cosmic ray particles--using existing technology--to see if they behave in the way theoretical physics says they should, or if they behave as we might expect them to in a computer simulation. If we found that the cosmic waves behave in a particular way, we would basically be able to see the construction of the simulation lattice--and confirm that we are indeed living in a computer simulation.

I'm not as concerned about poking into the quantum world like this, I'm just worried how it would change everyone's perception to the rest of their lives if the outcome was positive.

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I suppose it could go two ways: Some people might value life less, some others might feel there is life after death.

I'm really fascinated by this, just about to finish a scifi novel by Ian M Banks called The Hydrogen Sonata which details a civilisation subliming to a higher dimension

[Kamal]

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I suppose it could go two ways: Some people might value life less, some others might feel there is life after death.

I'm really fascinated by this, just about to finish a scifi novel by Ian M Banks called The Hydrogen Sonata which details a civilisation subliming to a higher dimension

Sober or otherwise, I love unrelenting debates into the world of "what if" scenarios. Being unable to comprehend outside our 3 dimensions, we just don't know what truly lies out there.

[sbando]

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Cool stuff, I'd love to live in a Matrix like Joe Pantoliano does when he betrays his pals.

[diegoff]

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the one that gets me out. Forever.

[robophobia_1]

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'Do you know why you're here? This, is why, you're here!'

[88Mariner]

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I took the red pill along time ago.

[Dhar_2]

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i took lots of white ones!!!

[tiddles]

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[floridaorange]

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is now an ok time to ask what your Avatar is Kamal?

[Kamal]

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