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from Study Finds<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is our universe one big virtual reality? How to test if we\u2019re really living in a computer simulation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

By Melvin M. Vopson<\/a>, University of Portsmouth<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This image of galaxy cluster SMACS 0723 as it appeared 4.6 billion years ago. It is the first of a series of photos snapped by NASA\u2019s James Webb Telescope. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started out with conditions suitable for life to evolve<\/a>. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values<\/a> that allow stars, planets and ultimately life to develop? The expansive force of the universe, dark energy, for example, is much weaker than theory suggests it should be \u2013 allowing matter to clump together rather than being ripped apart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A common answer is that we live in an infinite multiverse of universes, so we shouldn\u2019t be surprised that at least one universe has turned out as ours. But another is that our universe<\/a> is a computer simulation, with someone (perhaps an advanced alien species) fine-tuning the conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The latter option is supported by a branch of science called information physics<\/a>, which suggests that space-time and matter are not fundamental phenomena. Instead, the physical reality is fundamentally made up of bits of information, from which our experience of space-time emerges. By comparison, temperature \u201cemerges\u201d from the collective movement of atoms. No single atom fundamentally has temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from Study Finds Is our universe one big virtual reality? How to test if we\u2019re really living in a computer simulation By Melvin M. Vopson, University of Portsmouth Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started out with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}