The universe is 13.8 billion years old, so any civilizations that could have emerged in space had a lot of time and energy to hone their technological skills, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said on the popular show of American comedian Joe Rogan's Joe Rogan Experience.
According to Musk, we are all probably trapped in a pseudo-being like The Matrix.
“If you improve and improve technology, then in the end either the game will be indistinguishable from reality, or civilization will end. Since we exist, then most likely we are in a simulation."
“I also think there are many simulations. You can call them reality or the multiverse. The substrate these simulations run on, whatever it is, is probably pretty boring, at least compared to the simulations themselves."
“Why would you make the simulation boring? You would make the simulation more interesting than basic reality,”Musk said, referring to the films and video games that humanity makes and which are the essence of its vital interests.
The billionaire entrepreneur is far from alone in his idea. A number of physicists, cosmologists, and philosophers find the simulation hypothesis compelling. If ever there was any advanced alien civilization with a passion for creating simulations, then in theory it could create thousands or even billions of "fake" universes. It will be difficult for the inhabitants of these digital worlds to understand the truth, because whatever evidence they could gather would most likely be predetermined by the creators who put it into the program.
Despite the fantastic nature of this theory, it is one of the possible explanations for the famous Fermi paradox, which asks: "Where is everyone else?", Referring to aliens.