It is possible that the entire Universe is an infinitely divisible virtual reality. Where molecules are pixels, and our life is just a computer game.
Rumor has it that some respected scientists are increasingly inclined to believe that our reality is an artificial simulation.
This theory was first voiced by the Greek philosopher Plato in the 400 century BC. And then it was chewed for more convenient consumption by its inhabitants of the matrix. An article by Oxford academician Nick Bostrom was recently published. It supports this concept, which gives it some credibility and weight in the scientific world.
We all live in the matrix
The respected American astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson also did not stand aside. “The probability that this hypothesis is correct is over 50 percent. I cannot name a single strong argument against this. But I can’t find one for”, - said the scientist. This is his alarming conclusion. The mischievous futurist billionaire Elon Musk also pondered this topic. “We all live in imitation,” he announced to the delighted Tesla shareholders. It should be noted, however, that Musk was recently photographed smoking a fairly serious cannabis joint.
Therefore, it is possible that everything that we understand as an empirical, objective reality - the entire Universe - could in fact have arisen only a millisecond ago. It's like someone is launching their Xbox for a shot in Assassin's Creed. Our memories are stored data. Our bodies are simply avatars programmed to perceive the concept of moving forward, which we call "time." They serve to realize our "thoughts". And allow us to present the concept of our future for the illusory sense of "I".
But don't be alarmed. It's not all bad. The theory allows one possibility, which implies that you are in fact real. It says that in fact everything that exists in this particular artificial reality, and in general everything in the Universe, is just a product of the work of your consciousness.
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This rather selfish belief system is known as solipsism. And skeptics who are 100% convinced of their existence declare that there is no philosophical refutation of this theory.
Therefore, it is possible that the entire Universe is an infinitely divisible virtual reality. Where molecules are pixels, and our life is just a computer game. Alien children play. And most likely those who controlled the avatars of Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare or Boris Moiseev used cheat codes.
Calculate the mind of God
If any of these troubling thoughts really do reflect reality, then our simulation codes will certainly need debugging.
Researchers from the University of the Basque Country in Spain are currently embarking on a new study. They want to reveal the true nature of the universe - using a computer. As they say - to catch a thief, you need a thief.
In fact, it is quite ironic that hypothetical powerful "quantum" computers are supposed to be used. They will be used to "recreate the course of Darwinian evolution."
This is how it looks because events in quantum physics have truly inexplicable and strange properties. They are affected by the presence of an observer. It can be compared to a tree in a forest falling only when someone can see it. Some scientists believe that such an oddity at the molecular level of reality may be some kind of bug. Or a quirk. Or a "mistake" within our reality.
Spanish researchers, however, are clearly aware of the inherent irony in asking the computer to essentially explain and understand itself. "We leave open the question of whether the origin of life is really quantum mechanical," one of the scientists confirmed, smiling rather mysteriously.
So, perhaps not coincidentally, The New Yorker recently reported that two unnamed tech billionaires had hired several serious scientists. They must figure out how to get them out of our simulation using quantum computers.
Quantum of Solace
So what is so special about these quantum computers? Compared to your shiny new Macbook, for example? Which you only use to surf the net. Or assimilation to higher social levels of society? Well, to be honest, the truth is that even those who create these quantum computers don't really understand the difference. But at the same time, they believe that the difference is simply cosmic.
Today's mass consumption computers operate using internal binary languages. Whereas quantum machines have a third potential state that lies, well … somewhere in between. Because of this, their computing units, known as quibits (quantum bits), have a special ability to "entangle" with other quibits. Upon entering into such a relationship, the quibits will instantly reflect any change in its "twin".
Why is this strange process interesting? Because many particle physicists believe that this action takes place outside of what we perceive as space - time. Distance does not seem to be an obstacle to instant communication between quibits. And now we are slowly learning how to use this ability to create machines with almost infinite processing power. Your Mac's languages are very slow because the speed at which information spreads in their environment is finite. Therefore, we are talking about future machines, as powerful as the home planet of the Transformers - Cybertron.
One common ancestor
Perhaps quantum computers will not detect simulation in our reality. But in fact, this will confirm that Darwin's evolution is reduced to a mysterious ancient form of life. She is known as Luca (the last universal common ancestor).
What makes this great grandfather (or grandmother) of all living things especially fascinating is that he had a chance for eternal life. But he chose to die so that we could live. Like Jesus four billion years later.
Most evolutionary biologists are convinced that everything that ever existed comes from Luke. Her genetic profile was recently created by evolutionary biologists at the Heinrich Heine University. Apparently, this strange entity lived in deep-sea hydrothermal vents on the young Earth saturated with magma. And it was unlike anything else that had ever existed. It was a collection of tiny cells that spent hundreds of millions of years just swimming in the sea and doing nothing.
It is noteworthy that gender or death did not exist on Earth until Luke tore himself apart to begin evolution.
Why this organism died in order to release its essential ingredients and create all life on this planet remains a deep and incomprehensible mystery. Or perhaps Luca was just an alien virus in our simulation programmed to self-destruct and fill this virtual land with avatars. If so, the creators of this particular illusion are playing a very long game.
And finally
If some creatures run computer simulations - and they do, Bostrom says - then artificial realities should exist in abundance throughout the universe. The problem is that these alien programmers, like us, have no idea if they are part of some other simulation. Each universe can be just some kind of matryoshka, locked in the darkness of another artificial multiverse.
However, if we are truly living at the root level of reality, perhaps our universal common ancestor, Luca, could still be a computer virus that sacrificed its original form to set evolution in motion. In the hope of gaining a multidimensional perspective of reality through the eyes of everything that has ever lived and died on Earth.
He looks at our world through the eyes of birds in the sky, fish in the seas, tigers in zoos. Luke is likely receiving an infinite sense of reality. He is here to understand and completely conquer this planet.
And his greatest achievement is people. When they finally fly to the stars, the whole universe will be waiting for them.
