New Experiments Could Prove We Live in a Computer Simulation
“Like a video game, our reality may be purely ‘participatory’.”
By T.K. Randall
via Unexplained Mysteries
For years, scientists and philosophers have pondered over whether or not the real world isn’t quite as real as we think.
What if we told you that the world you live in isn’t real ?
It might sound like a concept straight out of the Keanu Reeves science fiction favorite The Matrix, but according to some of the world’s top minds, the idea that we are living inside a computer simulation is not only possible, but perhaps even more likely than the idea that we are living in the real world.
But if that was true, how would we go about proving it ?
One man who thinks he may have a solution to this conundrum is former NASA physicist Thomas Campbell who has spent years working on experiments designed to do just that.
Now thanks to California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly), he will finally have an opportunity to put these to the test on his mission to obtain “strong scientific evidence that we live in a computer-simulated virtual reality.”
One of Campbell’s experiments concerns the double-slit experiment – a physics demonstration which shows how light and matter can behave as both waves and particles.
He argues that if the observer is removed from the experiment, then the recorded information never actually existed in the first place because if nobody is there to see it, then it never happened.
Like a video game, our reality may be purely ‘participatory’.
Campbell hopes that his experiments will help to “challenge the conventional understanding of reality and uncover profound connections between consciousness and the cosmos.”
Actually proving beyond doubt that our world is a simulation, however, will not be an easy task.
By T.K. Randall
via Unexplained Mysteries
Image Credit: Pixabay / Kyraxys
