{"id":31017,"date":"2016-10-14T02:48:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-may-have-evidence-universe-is-a-computer-simulation"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:32","slug":"physicists-may-have-evidence-universe-is-a-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/physicists-may-have-evidence-universe-is-a-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Physicists May Have Evidence Universe Is A Computer Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-may-have-evidence-universe-is-a-computer-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation.<\/p>\n<p>How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us.<\/p>\n<p>A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and popular culture, points out that any civilisation of sufficient size and intelligence would eventually create a simulation universe if such a thing were possible.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2012\/10\/11\/physicists-may-have-evide_n_1957777.html\">http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.co.uk\/2012\/10\/11\/physicists-may-ha...57777.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation. How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us. A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and popular culture, points out that any civilisation of sufficient size and intelligence would eventually create a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66010,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions\/66010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}