Thursday, March 5, 2015
On the Fact that Many Physycists (Jeffrey Grupp, Jim Elvidge, Leonard Susskind, George Smoot, Alan Cuth, Edeline D'Souza - Just a Few) Are Now Contemplating the Possibility that Life as We Know it Is Little More than a Computer Simulation from the Brain of Some Superior Entity
I find this fascinating in that, while, yes, it blows to smithereens that whole Biblical explanation for life on the planet, it also gives a surprisingly adequate boost to the theory of intelligent design; the fact that somebody/some superior being had to be the one to create the simulation (or virtual reality, if you prefer). And I ask you, what could be better than a theory that simultaneously bitch-slaps both the religious-right and the academic elitists of the world? Not a lot, from my perspective.
So. some mega-dude is playing "The Sims" and we are just pixels on his screen. Trippy. dude...
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That astronomer, Pitts (his first name escapes me), went on Olbermann once and said that the possibility is probably around 20% - which makes it even more trippy!
ReplyDeleteI'm intrigued by parallel universe theory.
ReplyDeleteI remember Donald Sutherland telling Tom Hulce in "Animal House" that our universe could simply be a bunch of atoms in the fingernail of some giant in a distant galaxy. I always kind of liked that one.
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