An online donation has been launched on Indiegogo for the physical experiment that aims to determine whether we live in a simulation or in reality. The group was created by Melvin Vopson, a physicist at the University of Portsmouth, who proposed a new way to solve this question.
The idea of mirroring reality and simulating goes back to ancient times. Plato’s allegory of the cave essentially raises the question of how much we can tolerate true reality if we watch the shadow play throughout our lives. According to the simulation argument by contemporary philosopher Nick Bostrom, there are three possibilities: either all civilizations will die before a realistic simulation can be created, or they will not die, but cannot or will not create simulations, or there is a very high chance that we are living in a simulation. Depending on how far someone is at the end of the world, the chances of the first two scenarios aren’t very high – it remains that Mathsodds in favor of the simulation.
Moreover, mathematics is not accidentally involved in the story. For Fabson, it is not the first lines of Bohemian Rhapsody that make the comment, but in his paper published in The Conversation, he refers to legendary American physicist John Archibald Wheeler’s assertion that the universe is fundamentally mathematical in nature. Following this train of thought, Vopson himself attempted a non-mainstream (if you prefer, esoteric) direction, that of information physics. According to his theory, information is a state of matter, and based on the theory of mass-energy information equivalence, information also has mass.
A proof-of-concept experiment will test this theory using an electron-positron annihilation device. As is known, the positron is the electron-antimatter pair, when the two meet, they are destroyed (annihilated) and their mass is converted into energy and photons. Vopson will investigate the circumstances of this phenomenon, because according to his ideas, the simulated world contains a lot of information, and the code itself can be seen behind its destruction (like the digital rain in the Matrix).
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