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[–]Apathy1 point
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Upper limit of atoms in the universe is 4*10^81. 1Kb is 1024 bytes. 1Mb is over a million bytes. 1Gb is over a billion bytes. 1Tb is over a trillion bytes. Then you get to petabytes. Around 500 petabytes is the size of the internet (although this is based on old info, and it could be much bigger these days). That's a 1 with 15 zeroes behind it. We're talking about a 4 with 81 zeroes behind it. Even if humanity can keep improving technology without hitting a limit, there's no way in hell we could ever account for every atom in the universe. And you can forget about simulating the entire universe, that would require more processing power than there are resources in the actual universe. Simply put, we would need a couple universes just to simulate one.
Does this disprove the idea that we're living in a simulation or is there a way that we could still be living in a simulation? For example the universe isn't as big as we think it is so it wouldn't take up as many resources.
Well it really doesn't disprove it. We live in a universe of a certain size, but that doesn't mean there aren't bigger universes out there. Just look at the size of our sun versus the largest stars. Hell even super massive black holes will shit on our star. Here's an example.
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[–] Apathy 1 point 4 points 5 points (+5|-1) ago (edited ago)
Upper limit of atoms in the universe is 4*10^81. 1Kb is 1024 bytes. 1Mb is over a million bytes. 1Gb is over a billion bytes. 1Tb is over a trillion bytes. Then you get to petabytes. Around 500 petabytes is the size of the internet (although this is based on old info, and it could be much bigger these days). That's a 1 with 15 zeroes behind it. We're talking about a 4 with 81 zeroes behind it. Even if humanity can keep improving technology without hitting a limit, there's no way in hell we could ever account for every atom in the universe. And you can forget about simulating the entire universe, that would require more processing power than there are resources in the actual universe. Simply put, we would need a couple universes just to simulate one.
[–] Dashippy 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Does this disprove the idea that we're living in a simulation or is there a way that we could still be living in a simulation? For example the universe isn't as big as we think it is so it wouldn't take up as many resources.
[–] Apathy 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Well it really doesn't disprove it. We live in a universe of a certain size, but that doesn't mean there aren't bigger universes out there. Just look at the size of our sun versus the largest stars. Hell even super massive black holes will shit on our star. Here's an example.
[–] NassTee ago
Our universe isn't necessarily the same as the one in which we are simulated. Any or all of the rules we know could be completely different out there.