Hossenfelder: You can approximate the laws that we know with a computer simulation – we do this all the time – but if that was how nature actually worked, we could see the difference. Indeed, physicists have looked for signs that natural laws really proceed step by step, like in a computer code, but their search has come up empty handed.
Tag: universe as computer simulation
At SciAm: There is a 50-50 chance that we are living in a computer sim
That’s presumably how these people cope with the fine-tuning of the universe and Earth for life: Aliens did it.
At Scientific American: Could we force the universe to crash?
Does anyone remember when science was distinct from science fiction? But in those days, great discoveries were made. Who needs great discoveries when an active imagination will do just as well?