It is fun to think about the Simulation Theory but most discussions revolve around it being likely that we are in one.

What are some concrete reasons why it’s all science fiction and not reality?

  • Gigan@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    A well known physics experiment that shows light is both a particle and a wave.

    If you fire a laser at a piece of paper with two slits cut in it, you would expect the laser to show up as two lines on the other side, but it ends up displaying a much more complex pattern because the photons bounce off each other like ripples in a pond.

    The freaky part is if the experiment is repeated by firing only one photon at a time, it still produces the interference pattern.

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      10 months ago

      The really freaky part is that if you erase the information about the interaction, it discards the discrete behavior.

      That looks eerily like a memory optimization.