I'm sure you've all seen the Matrix. The sci-fi/action/martial arts classic, if you're perhaps just dense and missed the film, is about how humanity is enslaved by a master race of machines who run a computer simulation of our world to harvest us and control us. It's a pretty weird idea, but according to German physicists, it could actually be true.
The idea is that any civilization eventually gets to such an advanced point that they're able to simulate the universe. Then in that simulation, that civilization gets advanced enough to create another simulation within that simulation, and this continues almost infinitely. If you saw Inception, think of it like that, but infinitely deeper.
While the idea is simply just a thought, there appears to be actual science supporting this claim. One such claim is that, within a simulation, there are limits to energy. The Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) limit, which is a limit to the energy of cosmic ray particles. According to the physicists, this barrier is apparent of a simulation.
The theory is still highly conceptual, but it's certainly interesting. Perhaps our modern video games are just precursors to the universe simulation that will create the matrix-within-a-matrix. Maybe we're all just a series of 0's and 1's.
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The idea is that any civilization eventually gets to such an advanced point that they're able to simulate the universe. Then in that simulation, that civilization gets advanced enough to create another simulation within that simulation, and this continues almost infinitely. If you saw Inception, think of it like that, but infinitely deeper.
While the idea is simply just a thought, there appears to be actual science supporting this claim. One such claim is that, within a simulation, there are limits to energy. The Greisen-Zatsepin-Kuzmin (GZK) limit, which is a limit to the energy of cosmic ray particles. According to the physicists, this barrier is apparent of a simulation.
The theory is still highly conceptual, but it's certainly interesting. Perhaps our modern video games are just precursors to the universe simulation that will create the matrix-within-a-matrix. Maybe we're all just a series of 0's and 1's.
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