Are we Real? New Law of Physics That Supports Simulation Hypothesis
Physicist suggests humans are trapped in a simulated reality, where every encounter is artificial, like characters in a video game
As far back as 1999, Morpheus was entering “The Matrix” to break Neo and a few other chosen few out of a simulated reality created by advanced machines in order to use humans as an energy source. But as the idea permeates not just the realm of science fiction and popular culture, but academia as well, every now and then a philosopher or physicist has something new to say about it.
That’s what happened this week when a physicist at the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom proposed that a new law of physics could support the theory that what we see as our reality is in fact a complex virtual simulation running on a cosmic computer. The theory stems from previous research that Dr. Melvin Vopson has conducted looking into whether information has mass.
“Any normal person will think, could it be that maybe we already are in some kind of digital virtual reality world?” Vopson said in a March video posted on the university’s YouTube channel.
“It’s not farfetched to assume that an advanced civilization or maybe ourselves in the future, we…
