{"id":24186,"date":"2016-04-01T21:46:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T04:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/brainstorming-new-ways-to-test-if-cosmos-is-one-big-computer-simulation"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:32:58","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:32:58","slug":"brainstorming-new-ways-to-test-if-cosmos-is-one-big-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/brainstorming-new-ways-to-test-if-cosmos-is-one-big-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Brainstorming New Ways To Test If Cosmos Is One Big Computer Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/brainstorming-new-ways-to-test-if-cosmos-is-one-big-computer-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blast from the past. Someone in an astrobiology group seemed to question the validity of the question in my recent story on 5 Questions For E.T. about whether the universe is artificial. Here\u2019s my response:<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In the dog days of summer, when a gush of hot air from a Fifth Avenue subway grate can feel as real as it gets, take heart that the downtown traffic nipping at your heels may just be part of a cosmic-scale computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that the cosmos and everything in it could be a super-advanced civilization\u2019s version of Xbox first came to the fore a little over a decade ago.<\/p>\n<p>In a <em>Philosophical Quarterly<\/em> paper, philosophy professor Nick Bostrom at Oxford University in the U.K., posits that what we observe as our universe may in fact be a very advanced simulation designed by our distant progeny.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2013\/06\/28\/brainstorming-new-ways-to-test-if-cosmos-is-one-big-computer-simulation\/#7a4e1db81721\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2013\/06\/28\/brainst...4e1db81721<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blast from the past. Someone in an astrobiology group seemed to question the validity of the question in my recent story on 5 Questions For E.T. about whether the universe is artificial. Here\u2019s my response: In the dog days of summer, when a gush of hot air from a Fifth Avenue subway grate can feel [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50873,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24186\/revisions\/50873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}