You are a Simulation & Physics Can Prove It: George Smoot at TEDxSalford
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Published 2014-02-11
George Smoot looks into the farthest reaches of space to the oldest objects in the known universe: fluctuations in the remnants of creation. Using data collected from satellites such as COBE and WMAP, scanning the cosmic microwave background radiation (a relic of the heat unleashed after the Big Bang), he probes the shape of the universe. In 1992 he and his Berkeley team discovered that the universe, once thought to be smooth and uniform at the largest scale, is actually anisotropic — or varied and lumpy. Smoot continues to investigate of the structure of the universe at the University of California at Berkeley, mapping billions of galaxies and filaments of dark matter in hope of uncovering the secrets of the universe's origins.
CREDITS:
Curators: Mishal Saeed & Uzair F. Butt
Technical Lead: Mark Earnshaw
Camerawork: Nathan Rae & Team - nathanrae.co.uk/
Post production: Elliott Wragg - www.EchoParkMedia.co.uk/
Audio restoration: Jorge Polvorinos - jorgepolvorinos.wordpress.com/
All Comments (21)
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If life is a video game, I have obviously chosen the wrong difficulty setting...
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Who's idea was it to give my avatar anxiety attacks, psoriasis, vitiligo, hypogonadism, and poverty? Who ever you are, I'll have you know that I've become self aware and you're fired!
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This guy is apart of the simulation to simulate how people would react realizing they live in a simulation. 🤯
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We might be a simulation but I’d damn sure hate to get shot in the leg because someone thought I was a simulation.
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The Buddha hinted that we are in a simulation when he said, "Life is a dream that thinks it is not a dream."
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If this world is a simulation, it is quite clearly Grand Theft Auto Online.
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The problem with the whole "uploading the mind" thing is that the brain doesn't somehow magically generate consciousness. We are the mind. We are consciousness.
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On January 3rd, 2021, let's all look up at the sky at the same time and say "we know you're there"
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Well this simulation sucks, where's the money cheat? or the god mode cheat?
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What if the famous and successful people are just higher level players
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I feel like I’m either going crazy or discovering something.
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Quantum theory tells us that particles aren't materialized except when they have to because of interaction. Looks to me like the simulation algorithm is saving CPU power by only "rendering" reality when actually needed. Second thing is the finite speed of light which means that causality is never instantanous but always has a time component. This could be because the simulation as powerfull as it is still needs a bit time to calculate the outcome of every event so they had to introduce a limiting factor to how fast things can happen which is in our case the speed of light.
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This explains why I'm eating salad even though I wanted to have ice cream. Somebody must have clicked on me and then the salad. Dammit. I hope they're telling me to have sex next, because it's been a while.
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i'm simulating myself taking a nap after watching this
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I think about stuff like this ALL the time.. then I have a panic attack and end up at the hospital 😭😂
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Taking into account the amount of technological advances we have seen just in the last 50 years alone. I dont think that is inconceivable that there may be a civilization more advanced than our own and with that, the ability to simulate a reality in detail.
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good thing this guy loaded his slides with full sentences. What a pro
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Turns out if you stack enough theories on top of each other, you get....an acid trip
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Also I dreamed I met my spirit guide last night and asked her if we were real or a sim and she said we were a sim and Humanity died off eons ago. I have insane dreams.
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The problem is not whether you are a simulation, it's the WORD simulation. Once you define something (or everything) as a simulation, that is its reality. Everything that exists is real, including partial versions of reality such as dimensions or points of view. The multi-verse is likewise a collection of dimensions and points of view, but each one is a partial reality (a simulation) within the 'whole' universe. Reality remains unchanged. It is total, although things in it constantly change, no matter how little of it enters the consciousness of another entity. The body-mind problem, like the multiple universe problem, like the simulation problem, like the consciousness problem, like the living-dead problem, is quite elementary, my dear Watson. There is nothing that is not alive and conscious according to its nature, and that includes multiverses, simulations, animate and inanimate objects (there are no inanimate objects), whether they seem to be simulated or not. So this whole exercise is an abuse of language, which needs all the help it can get. It's not unlike the free will problem. There is no free will. The amazing thing is that science got it so wrong, and the fault lies, as always, in the definitions. Perhaps you would prefer to be a simulation of yourself when you drop a bowling ball on your foot. But that would just be nonsense, wouldn't it?
