(September 5, 2013 at 11:50 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: Max-greece, is that a technical possibility? Create a "universe" in a computer?
Mister Agenda, if we're really living a simulation and manage to contact the users, I doubt they'll believe we're "living". If your character in a game stops responding to your commands and starts talking to you, would you think it's a malfunction or that it became self aware?
And oops, welcome, Max_Kolbe.
It is possible if, and only if, the universe we are experiencing is a computer program, otherwise we could only ever make an approximation of the real universe (like we do with modelling weather patterns and you see how well that works).
One of the fundamental rules of computing is that any computer can run the program of any other computer given enough storage space/memory. The only variable would be time (ignoring having to re-compile the program).
If the universe is digital then yes - it is technically possible (but fucking difficult to do).
However, in terms of computing power we would need to keep beating Moore's law for another thousand years or so before we would build a computer powerful enough to accelerate time in that universe relative to our own.
By then - all bets are off. Impossible to know what we might be capable of.
