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Is the universe infinite?
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RE: Is the universe infinite?
November 19, 2014 at 10:55 am (This post was last modified: November 19, 2014 at 10:57 am by robvalue.)
I read somewhere about testing whether the universe is a simulation by seeing if the laws of physics start to go wrong at the boundaries (if there are some). But I don't get that, because how could we know that a real universe doesn't just go wobbly near the boundary anyway? The laws of physics are just our observations after all.

Simulation hypothesis. Mindfuck. I'm cool with it, though. This business of having a maximum speed, even maximum relative speed, seems to me to imply some sort of #BUFFER FULL limitation in a program. Maybe.
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Is the universe infinite?

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Is the universe infinite? - by Spacedog - November 17, 2014 at 4:02 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Alex K - November 17, 2014 at 4:10 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Spacedog - November 17, 2014 at 4:44 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by IATIA - November 17, 2014 at 9:13 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Heywood - November 17, 2014 at 9:23 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by vorlon13 - November 17, 2014 at 9:24 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Anomalocaris - November 17, 2014 at 10:27 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Whateverist - November 17, 2014 at 10:58 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Anomalocaris - November 17, 2014 at 11:12 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Whateverist - November 18, 2014 at 9:50 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Surgenator - November 17, 2014 at 11:37 pm
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by vorlon13 - November 19, 2014 at 12:28 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Anomalocaris - November 19, 2014 at 1:00 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by vorlon13 - November 19, 2014 at 1:13 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Anomalocaris - November 19, 2014 at 1:30 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by robvalue - November 19, 2014 at 4:57 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Anomalocaris - November 19, 2014 at 10:53 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by Whateverist - November 19, 2014 at 11:37 am
RE: Is the universe infinite? - by robvalue - November 19, 2014 at 10:55 am

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