Sweden Must Import Trash For Energy Conversion Because Its Recycling Program Is So Successful. Whoa, Dude, Are We Inside a Computer Right Now? Illustration By Julian Garcia Two years ago, Rich Terrile appeared on Through the Wormhole, the Science Channel’s show about the mysteries of life and the universe.
He was invited onto the program to discuss the theory that the human experience can be boiled down to something like an incredibly advanced, metaphysical version of The Sims. It’s an idea that every college student with a gravity bong and The Matrix on DVD has thought of before, but Rich is a well-regarded scientist, the director of the Center for Evolutionary Computation and Automated Design at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and is currently writing an as-yet-untitled book about the subject, so we’re going to go ahead and take him seriously. The essence of Rich’s theory is that a “programmer” from the future designed our reality to simulate the course of what the programmer considers to be ancient history – for whatever reason, maybe because he’s bored. We’ll get there that fast? That’s depressing. Do you play video games? Bob Ross: Painting Mountains.
Lucy Temerlin. A famous picture of Lucy Temerlin and her caretaker Janis Carter hugging about a year before Lucy's death Lucy (1964–1987)[1] was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K.
Temerlin, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane. By the time she was 12, Lucy had become very strong and was very destructive in the Temerlin house. Eventually, she was shipped to a chimpanzee rehabilitation center in Gambia, accompanied by University of Oklahoma psychology graduate student Janis Carter.[4] For years, Lucy was unable to relate to the other chimps in the rehabilitation center, and never reproduced, displaying sexual attraction only to humans.
Lucy showed many signs of depression, including refusal to eat, and expressed "hurt" via sign language. A year after leaving Lucy, Carter returned with some of Lucy's belongings. Fouts: What that? Jump up ^ Dale Peterson (1995). Yes, we may all be living in the Matrix, say physicists. German scientists say they've found a way to tell whether or not our universe is a giant computer simulation - and that there's evidence to suggest that it is.
The basis of the idea is that, if the universe is a simulation, then it would have certain observable constraints. The laws of physics, which appear continuous, would have to be superimposed onto a discrete three-dimensional lattice which advances in steps of time. This lattice spacing, says Professor Silas Beane of the University of Bonn, would impose an otherwise unnecessary limit on the energy that particles can have, because nothing can exist that is smaller than the lattice itself. And, he says, precisely such a a cut-off in the spectrum of high energy particles exists: a limit to the energy of cosmic rays known as the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin (GZK) cut-off. High energy particles interacting with the cosmic microwave background lose energy as they travel across long distances.
There are a couple of caveats.