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It appears that this may no longer be an open question: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm-that-were-not-living-in-a-computer-simulat
by seanlane 9y ago
It appears that this may no longer be an open question:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm-that-were-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation/ http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/physics/physicists-confirm...
There was a Hacker News post about this a few days ago, likely from a different source, but I can't find it.
- rorosaurus 9y agoDoesn't this simply suggest that the reality that is simulating our universe would have to be fundamentally different than our own?
- jsjohnst 9y agoI remember reading something a decade or so ago which said that to simulate the entire known universe, even using selective windowing, would require more energy than the entire universe has. Wish I could remember the source.
- qudat 9y agoThis only applies to classical computers not quantum, some combination of both, or by some means of computation we haven't discovered yet.
- rvern 9y agoNo: https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482 https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3482.