the simulation argument

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  • plash0

    the possibility of someone watching 23mins of this guy talk is slim to none.

    MIT is doing the very thing this poindexter is yabbering about. Computer simulations have been running to recreate quantum chromodynamics, a theory that describes the nuclear forced that binds quarks and gluons into protons and neutrons, which then bind to form atomic nuclei. lattice spacing imposes a limit on the energy that particles can have, basicly nothing can exist smaller than the lattice itself. This means that if the universe as we know it is actually a computer simulation, there ought to be a cut off in the spectrum of high energy particles. And it just happens that there is exactly this kind of cut off in the energy of cosmic rays, a limit known as the Greisen–Zatsepin–Kuzmin (GZK) cut off. When reading this review I only understood the verbs so.. whatever. fuck you.

    Study is from OCT2012

    http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1847

    http://www.technologyreview.com/…

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