Two British scientists suggest that reality as we know it could be an illusion or a supermanipulación created by a mega-supercomputer.
The physicist Martin Rees and mathematician John Barrow, two respected British scientists wonder whether all matter and intelligence, as we know, are but the creation of a mega-supercomputer which is located somewhere in the Universe . "A few decades ago, computers could simulate only very simple models. Now you can create virtual worlds with many details," Rees told AFP.
Martin, an astronomer at the prestigious University of Cambridge, dares to go further in these speculations and wondered if we could bein such a simulation. In that case, the universe would not be all-encompassing but only part of an ensemble Rees and Barrow call the "multiverse."
Barrow, another Cambridge professor, argues in an academic paper that has long been known that a civilization slightly more advanced than our own could simulate "universes in which self-conscious entities can emerge and communicate with them."
In a society more knowledgeable about computers and technology more advanced, "instead of merely simulating their weather or the formation of galaxies, as we do, they could go further and look at the emergence of stars and systems Planeteers "he said.
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