Despite the hype and the eventual letdown, Dorigo is glad that this bump has got folks talking about high-energy physics. “It doesn’t matter even if it fizzles out; it’s important to keep asking ourselves these questions,” he says. The main reason for this, Dorigo explains, is that “we are at a very special junction in particle physics as we decide what new machine to build” and some input from current colliders is necessary. “Right now there is no clear direction,” he says. In light of the fact that there has been no new physics (or any hint of supersymmetry) from the LHC to date, the most likely future devices would be an electron–positron collider or, in the long term, a muon collider. But a much clearer indication is necessary before these choices are made and for now, much more data are needed.
http://blog.physicsworld.com/2016/08/05/and-so-to-bed-for-the-750-gev-bump/#more-13840

time is up mofos - the end is not nigh - it's now. trigger point imminent. say GODbye to your little square patch of grass in the united(brexit)kingdom.

funny how this simulation theory only took off, once we had computers.
maybe because of computer games.
I visited Bell's college of technology in 1983. they had a lab room with basic computers that ran a basic pac man game and it was held in high esteem at that time. wow. 32 bits.

Isn't this just an extension of 'life is but a dream'.

another avoidance strategy.

the brick is on route and the glass will break. no excuses will be entertained.
God introduced himself to you. You ignore him. He ignores you back.
you might get a consolation prize if you realize you were fooled after the event.
But isn't better to get all the inheritance you were promised than a token.
the wait and see policy will see you into a pit. you'll scream out why didn't you warn us.
the book is replete with warnings.

Thanks for posting the link, DStyle. I've now read it through and agree with the OP that it's more philosophy than science. It appears to be a modern day rehash of the shadows and dream scenarios going back to the ancient Greek philosophers. Interesting that Bostrom managed to weave in an idea of the Abrahamic deity, a gold star for that.
If such a simulation were possible then there has to be a ground state reality and Occam would suggest that's where we are. It's hard to believe that a simulation would include the massive amount of redundancy we see in our carbon-based biology, the complexity of countless species and the vastness of space.
Any computer programme would likely have a granularity based on a minimum pixel or bit size and that ill-fits with the space-time continuum which is just that, a continuum. Also, the probability basis of matter suggested by quantum mechanics would require infinite computing power to simulate. (IMO).

it is a thought experiment of course, but an interesting one nevertheless.

regarding your last point, it's interesting to consider one idea that's come out of the simulation hypothesis provides a rather neat explanation for the Copenhagen interpretation (wavefunction collapse/ classic double slit experiment).

namely that the granular detail (i.e. behaviour and quantum states of elementary particles) in the simulation is only required to be resolved upon observation, as higher level approximations of the reality (i.e. the simulation is not bottom up) are entirely fit for purpose and require less computing resource.

So the idea that a simulation would need to model the wavefunctions of every particle in the universe and compute their probabilistic interactions is not a requirement of the system. Yes, good argument. The amount of reserve computing power would depend on how many observers would be allowed in the simulation and keeping track of them. There are seven billion of us and most of us see diffracted light and other quantum effects although we don't normally carry out experiments.It could be argued too that our metabolism is quantum in nature.

As for the redundancy, if the only input/initial parameters were only the cosmological constants and the wave functions/ M- theory/ whatever works, it's entirely expected. If one starts with the cosmological constants, then I would think that one also needs the elapsed time, circa 14 billion years, to arrive at this point. Not practical for the observer.

the simulation hypothesis provides a rather neat explanation for the Copenhagen interpretation (wavefunction collapse/ classic double slit experiment).

Speaking of which - If the CI is the right one. I’m not in a position to say which one is, but of all the quantum mechanics interpretations Pilot-Wave theory, which I believe is currently the third most popular after Many-Worlds and Copenhagen, offers the sanest explanation, as far as I can grasp it, for all quantum effects.

In this interpretation (which is one of the oldest) there is no wave/particle duality, there is always a particle with a definite momentum and position. In the case of the double slit the particle always passes through one slit or the other carried by a pilot wave, this is a major difference from the other two interpretations. As before wave interference effects occur, though now they jostle actual particle in following one path or another. The probabilistic element doesn’t go away, the particle’s evolution is still described by the wavefunction, but in reality it has always been a particle, always going through one slit or the other.

This interpretation, taken up by David Bohm in the 1950s, has been growing in popularity with physicists. A year ago an experiment was done using oil droppets that parallels what you’d expect if quantum objects were indeed  carried by pilot waves. One of the major hurdles of QM is that it’s not easily understood even by those that are familiar with it, making progress a bit of a slog. Pilot-wave theory does away with the importance of the observer and the need for other worlds for the probabilities to decohere into, it becomes that bit easier to understand.

Here’s a little video of oil in action and, later, its relevence to quantum effects (it’s only 3mins and soundless).

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmC0ygr08tE

https://www.amazon.com/When-Prophecy-Fails-Leon-Festinger/dp/1578988527

http://www.hebcal.com/hebcal/?v=1&geo=geoname&geonameid=5128581&m=50&month=x&year=now&c=on&s=on&maj=on&min=on&mod=on&mf=on&ss=on&nx=on

the Hebrew calendar - above.

i had a pick for the oaks years ago - put it's name on the wall. Wijdan. So i wouldn't forget to back it. one day I jump into a bookies to take a leak. So i felt obliged to make a bet. i look up at the screen and see Wijdan in a group three race? WTF it's a oaks contender. not even group one? So I empty my pockets and put it all on Wijdan. it romped home.
That's what you call inside knowledge.
very rarely do I get it maybe once a year, you need to study for it or be lucky to find it.
I'm a lazy gambler. I don't study for it.
another was Cameroon vs Argentina - Argentina had not won a game in 14 tries, Cameroon are quite good? why is Cameroon 7/1 ? empty the pockets again. 

that's one fact operating in the equation.

I've got a lot of arrows pointing into September 2017. Not one arrow. it's maybe twenty.
I can't see it being my head being turned. wishful thinking? i'm emptying my pockets.

What came First  The c0ck or the Fanny ?

oh this cake is divine? where can i get more distractions?
I have to avoid God as much as possible.

DStyle, I read a few lines of the book last night before going to sleep. This morning I open chit chat and find it's all true.

After mulling it over, I have some misgivings about the "fast forward" scenario. I'll post later in the day as I'm short of time at the moment.

If it's a simulation, then Time might not exist like you perceive it. Like a program on a computer loading. It might run at a high speed. Therefore a billion years would be processed in a few seconds. Indeed if the computer is high spec it might load in an instant.

So Time is irrelevant.
Matter is irrelevant.
You are not made in God's image. But only part of a program?
another devaluation of mankind theory, what a surprise.

ask this in 1970, and people would say what are you drinking? creme de menthe?
this only comes up because we are using computers now.
It a perspective created by our senses, which are very limited.
seeing only a fraction of the electromagnetic spectrum.
So now we have information language. So we throw that into the mix of reality.

you need to watch the 'absurdity of unbelief' a lecture on youtube - just go to part 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmOv7vcvFvQ&t=30s

It's a thought exercise, Zorro.
I don't think we are in a simulation either, there's too much biology for that but people do consider all sorts of possibilities and simulation hypotheses go back to the ancient Greeks. The computerised versions are a modern tweak on this.

In my world view the earth is here as a petri dish. It's a way for God to make fine Gold and silver and then to be discarded.

Oh dear, I hurt the planet's feelings, such a pretty planet too.

God is only interested in souls with spirit. seed that germinates.

seed is valuable. If it does not grow in the field it's worthless.

there are a trillion stars for every human on the planet. The universe is this big to accomodate elemnets such as carbon forming. All the goldilock constants. at least 24 constants set up just so. But it's all matter. Not soul or spirit. God has no need for it.
it will be rolled up like a scroll. (17 references in the bible to the universe being a scroll? ) God is outside time, outside matter.

He values your soul and spirit. nothing else.

what do you value?

then you have left your soul unguarded, the only thing of value you possess.

close up of the 2017 review of the year to come in the ECONOMIST ? magazine.

hey have a plan, for what's coming. You don't. You are so screwedd..

the rib is the only bone in the body that regenerates if excised by a good surgeon. It is commonly used as grafting material.
no other bone regenerates.
Adam's blood spilled on the land to get him a bride.

Jesus was pierced by a roman spear between the ribs. his blood spilled out onto the land below the cross. All to get him a bride.


people are being killed across the world in conflicts, while you say it's a simulation?
God help you when he comes.

dodge the bullet. get ready...