{"id":173949,"date":"2023-10-11T05:25:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/physics-revelation-could-mean-were-all-living-in-a-simulation"},"modified":"2023-10-11T05:25:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T10:25:30","slug":"physics-revelation-could-mean-were-all-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/physics-revelation-could-mean-were-all-living-in-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Physics Revelation Could Mean We\u2019re All Living in a Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physics-revelation-could-mean-were-all-living-in-a-simulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/how-does-caffeine-wake-you-up\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">coffee<\/a>. The clarity of sunlight dappling through the trees. The howl of the wind in the dark of night.<\/p>\n<p>All this, according to a philosophical argument <a href=\"https:\/\/simulation-argument.com\/simulation\">published in 2003<\/a>, could be no more real than pixels on a screen. It\u2019s called the <a target=\"_blank\" data-stringify-link=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/expert-proposes-a-method-for-telling-if-we-all-live-in-a-computer-program\" delay=\"150\" data-sk=\"tooltip_parent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/expert-proposes-a-method-for-telling-if-we-all-live-in-a-computer-program\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">simulation hypothesis<\/a>, and it proposes that if humanity lives to see a day it can repeatedly simulate the Universe using come kind of computer, chances are we are living in one of those many simulations.<\/p>\n<p>If so, everything we experience is a model of something else, removed from some kind of reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The scent of coffee. The clarity of sunlight dappling through the trees. The howl of the wind in the dark of night. All this, according to a philosophical argument published in 2003, could be no more real than pixels on a screen. It\u2019s called the simulation hypothesis, and it proposes that if humanity lives to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}