In 2003, British philosopher Nick Bostrom said that our world might be merely a computer simulation. On the wave of immense popularity at the time of the trilogy, then the Wachowski brothers “the Matrix” this theory was accepted with great enthusiasm. “A second birth” she got recently after such popularizers of science like Elon Musk, began to support and even lead a variety of development in this area. But could our reality really be only the lines of code?
Arguments “for” and “against” this theory abound. We even repeatedly wrote on this subject on the pages of our website, but two theoretical physicists from the University of Oxford, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhin recently decided to refute the theory that our world is only a computer program. The results of their research scientists published in the online edition of Science Advances.
Conjecture Ringel and Kovrigina is based on the fact that the computational power necessary for modeling the Universe on a quantum level (which we already can “see”), will require an unlimited amount of RAM. In other words, to simulate just a few quantum particles would require enormous computing resources that will grow exponentially.
“The storage matrix of only 20 spins will require about a terabyte of RAM, and if you try to expand the model to hundreds of thousands of spins, creating a computer with such a memory would require more atoms than there are in the Universe.”
On the one hand, it’s good news from the point of view of science (at least at the moment), the existence of VHR data from virtual space impossible. On the other hand, if we consider the philosophical aspect of the phenomenon, all is not so simple: what if the creators of the system was specially created in the simulator this limitation, in order to convince us of the impossibility of the existence of something like that? What do you think: can “the Matrix” ever to be created? Or maybe we’re already in it?
Scientists said, are we living in the Matrix
Vladimir Kuznetsov