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Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation

Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simulation
Physicists have devised a new experiment to test if the universe is a computer. A philosophical thought experiment has long held that it is more likely than not that we're living inside a machine. The theory basically goes that any civilisation which could evolve to a 'post-human' stage would almost certainly learn to run simulations on the scale of a universe. And if it has? And it's not just theory. READ MORE: Physicists Have Evidence Universe Is Computer Simulation Now another team have devised an actual test to see if this theory holds any hope of being proven. Professor Martin Savage at the University of Washington says while our own computer simulations can only model a universe on the scale of an atom's nucleus, there are already "signatures of resource constraints" which could tell us if larger models are possible. This is where it gets complex. And if such signatures do appear in both? Zohreh Davoudi, one of Savage's students, goes further: Related: