Science Do we live inside a computer simulation?

[Wally]

I just hope I'm not a simulation written in JAVA...

 

[Ghostrider]

I just hope I'm not a simulation written in JAVA...

Could be worse. You could be written in Flash. And maybe only available to Facebook users.

 

[Wally]

:facepalm:

 

[Hielor]

I find it amazing that this thread has made it to six pages without the relevant xkcd showing up even once:

 

[N_Molson]

Very interesting. Especially the idea of time step. Which exists in computer simulations, but doesn't seem to exist in the real world.

 

[Artlav]

I find it amazing that this thread has made it to six pages without the relevant xkcd showing up even once

Cause i doubt anyone can stand that much boredom as depicted in it.

Very interesting. Especially the idea of time step. Which exists in computer simulations, but doesn't seem to exist in the real world.

Ever heard of asynchronous CPU? We have time steps and clock rates because it's simpler and apparently makes more sense to regular human logic.

 

[Hielor]

Very interesting. Especially the idea of time step. Which exists in computer simulations, but doesn't seem to exist in the real world.

[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck_time"]Planck time - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]

 

[Quick_Nick]

I find it amazing that this thread has made it to six pages without the relevant xkcd showing up even once

Wrong. It's what I had in mind the entire time as well and I posted it earlier.
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=222052&postcount=35

 

[Hielor]

Wrong. It's what I had in mind the entire time as well and I posted it earlier.
http://orbiter-forum.com/showthread.php?p=222052&postcount=35

Ah, didn't see it in a quick scan of the thread since it wasn't in an img tag. Carry on then!

 

[N_Molson]

Theoretically, this is the smallest time measurement that will ever be possible, roughly 10−43 seconds.

Even more interesting. Even if there is a difference between "smallest time step measurement" and "smallest time step possible".

Since speed has a theoretical limit, it makes "sense" that mass and time have theoretical limits too... In both micro- and macro- dimensions...

 

[Quick_Nick]

(advertisement voice) And you too can create your own universe:
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular_automaton"]Cellular automaton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame]
Let me know if you figure out the rules of the universe.

 

[Jarvitä]

Let me know if you figure out the rules of the universe.

It's obviously a 42-state, 4-dimensional CA. We just have to figure out the transitions.