But , who was measuring before the big bang , and the millions of year before we appear ? what is so special about measurement? I thought that our brain was merely a quantum computer ?
Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
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Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#102Reality is just a giant whirling layer of infinite View Master-like multidimensional slides, overlaid one upon the other. Every slide locks into place to be seen as we are looking in whichever direction, at whatever time. I'd wager time travel is never discovered by humanity, but that some sort of time or dimensional goggles are created, eventually. Essentially, we're all watching our own multi-dimensional, multilaye…
But time may just be a human construct.
Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#103Reality is just a giant whirling layer of infinite View Master-like multidimensional slides, overlaid one upon the other. Every slide locks into place to be seen as we are looking in whichever direction, at whatever time. I'd wager time travel is never discovered by humanity, but that some sort of time or dimensional goggles are created, eventually. Essentially, we're all watching our own multi-dimensional, multilaye…
But time may just be a human construct.
Absolutely! As is perspective. Time just translates to a whole series of indexes for which planes of existence, in which dimensions are aligning into the measuring perspective. It's the pointer for some such reflection, and angle to see it.
Those planes of existence are these slides I mention. Whirling in time and subject, but always a representation of some spherical center whole that is the perspective of another. We're all just holes looking into this swirling miasma of time/space/parallel-dimensions/etc, seeing shadows of holes.
Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
But if you're enmeshed in the simulation, you would never notice the slowdown! The only reason the video game is annoying is because we experience time outside of it.
I think the OP is referring to people watching from outside the simulation.
Yeah, the crystal people.
Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#105And perhaps someday we'll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like "oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to lo…
In other words, reality is lazily evaluated and is written in Haskell ?
Not really, most of it is just hacked together with perl: https://xkcd.com/224/
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#106Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#107And perhaps someday we'll get to meet the great programmer in the sky the developed the simulation we are living in and we will ask him why he designed it that way and he will say something like "oh I just wanted to optimize the code so I simply excluded reality subroutines when there were no beings looking. I just never thought you guys would notice. As soon as I saw that you guys noticed the flaw, I was going to lo…
But probably though.
Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#108Clever optimization by our simulators, Big up
I've always wanted to read (or write?) a book about us determining we are in a simulation, but we find subtle flaws like this we're able to exploit in weird ways. Kind of like breaking out of a VM through register flaws or something. Anyone know of a story along those lines?
Snow Crash has elements of that idea. At least in the fragments about Sumerian history and their powerful language.
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#109Re: Reality doesn’t exist until it is measured, quantum experiment finds
#110The jokes above that say that this was done by our simulators to save on computation are amusing but wrong. Quantum computation is famously harder than classical computation.