Theres a big a big problem with star trek

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Space Crabs: Mar 10, 2007; by FactsAreUseless

numberoneposter posted:

how do you guys know that the whole world isnt just an elaborate nigh infinite holodeck type simulation and teleporters are an impossible illusion foist upon us ???

If the universe is a simulation from a society that became advanced enough to simulate a universe it really doesn't matter since the laws of the simulation are effectively the laws of the universe and it doesn't really change anything.

I guess it might matter if the computer simulating our universe was destroyed, or the simulation ends at some arbitrary condition like a multi cellular form of life like ourselves reaching interstellar space. It would depend on the point of the simulation and how much of the observers time it would be operational.

That brings into question how much time would have elapsed at whatever place was simulating our universe because running a simulation for 14 billion years seems like an impossibility, so they would be using this science fiction, nigh unimaginable computational power to accelerate the simulation, so that we experience time linearly but they can simulate time at an accelerated rate.

So the universe might be an hour or a day or a week old to whoever is running it. Maybe next tuesday Jerry is going to shut off the universe (a billion years for us) or maybe a finger is on the off switch now and it will just take 20,000 of our years for it to click.

Best case for us being a simulation is someone wanting to see what the heat death of the universe looks like to test the theory of another big crunch/big bang, so we have a few trillion years left yet before all molecules cease to move and Jerry can see what happens.

Space Crabs fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Feb 20, 2017