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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12613629/Are-living-simulation-Physicist-claims-new-evidence-simply-characters-advanced-virtual-world.html
Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the
University of Portsmouth, claims we may be characters in
an advanced virtual world.
He claims that the physical behaviour of information in
our universe resembles the process of a computer deleting
or compressing code – a clue that perhaps the machines
hope we don't notice.
Professor Vopson has already warned of an impending
'information catastrophe', when we run out of energy
to sustain huge amounts of digital information.
. . .
Ok :-)
In SOME respects, yea ... string theory suggests that
protons, neutrons and such are emergent properties
of all those little 'strings' humming. Wolfram
produced a huge tome showing how the rules of
cellular automata - what you'd get from all those
strings humming and interacting - could indeed
produce what we call 'physics'.
However a DELIBERATE super-sim ... no, I don't see
that at all. This is a guy who's watched 'Matrix'
too many times :-)
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