{"id":174277,"date":"2023-10-16T06:22:27","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/saturday-citations-gravitational-waves-time-travel-and-the-simulated-universe-hypothesis"},"modified":"2023-10-16T06:22:27","modified_gmt":"2023-10-16T11:22:27","slug":"saturday-citations-gravitational-waves-time-travel-and-the-simulated-universe-hypothesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/saturday-citations-gravitational-waves-time-travel-and-the-simulated-universe-hypothesis","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Citations: Gravitational waves, time travel and the simulated universe hypothesis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/saturday-citations-gravitational-waves-time-travel-and-the-simulated-universe-hypothesis2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, researchers proved empirically that life isn\u2019t fair. Also, you\u2019ll notice that, in a superhuman display of restraint, I managed to write a paragraph about the simulated universe hypothesis without once referencing \u201cThe Matrix.\u201d (Except for this reference.) <\/p>\n<p>Oh, so a European research team has proven that <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-flipped-coins-fair-thought.html\">flipped coins aren\u2019t actually fair<\/a>? Buddy, <i>life<\/i> isn\u2019t fair! Do you think the world owes you two equally probable outcomes as established by an axiomatic mathematical formalization? When I was a kid, we didn\u2019t even <i>have<\/i> coins! We had to roll dice! It took 10 minutes to start a football game! Oh, so a coin is very slightly more likely to land on the same face as its initial position? Quit crying! It\u2019s only a meaningful bias if you flip a coin multiple times!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-10-law-physics-idea-simulation.html\">Applying a recently discovered physical law<\/a>, a physicist at the University of Portsmouth has contributed to the discussion about whether or not the universe is a simulation. The simulated universe hypothesis proposes that the universe is actually a simulation running on a vastly complex computing substrate and we\u2019re therefore all just NPCs, walking through our animation loops and saying, \u201cHail, summoner! Conjure me up a warm bed!\u201d and \u201cDo you get to the Cloud District often?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, researchers proved empirically that life isn\u2019t fair. Also, you\u2019ll notice that, in a superhuman display of restraint, I managed to write a paragraph about the simulated universe hypothesis without once referencing \u201cThe Matrix.\u201d (Except for this reference.) Oh, so a European research team has proven that flipped coins aren\u2019t actually fair? Buddy, life [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1527,1523,2229,219,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alien-life","category-computing","category-mathematics","category-physics","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174277","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\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}