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A team of theoretical physicists from Oxford University in the UK has shown that life and reality cannot be merely simulations generated by a massive extraterrestrial computer.
In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhi show that constructing a computer simulation of a particular quantum phenomenon that occurs in metals is impossible - not just practically, but in principle.
Quantum Monte Carlo methods use random sampling to analyse many-body quantum problems where the equations involved cannot be solved directly.
Anyone who actually understands this shit - it's impossible for Niko Bellic to become a programmer and make GTA IV inside GTA IV. How is this different exactly?
Fuck this is complicated if only we had a Japanese scientist to explain this using hot air balloons as an analogy, while a 60 year old jew in a checkered fedora to pepper in Jimmy likes tranny jokes through it
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1 autotldr 2017-10-03
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 77%. (I'm a bot)
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1 Dagidugidai 2017-10-03
Anyone who actually understands this shit - it's impossible for Niko Bellic to become a programmer and make GTA IV inside GTA IV. How is this different exactly?
1 Suibu 2017-10-03
Science gets things wrong all the time, I happen to side with Joe on this
1 condom_cracker28 2017-10-03
Joe is hoping that we live in a simulation for the small chance that he might not actually be a midget.
1 Toss__Pot 2017-10-03
what if the simulation was designed to give you those results to prevent you getting under the program?
1 harriswill 2017-10-03
Fuck this is complicated if only we had a Japanese scientist to explain this using hot air balloons as an analogy, while a 60 year old jew in a checkered fedora to pepper in Jimmy likes tranny jokes through it