Archived How does matter exist? Everything in me says it's impossible.. yet here we are (AskVoat)
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Archived How does matter exist? Everything in me says it's impossible.. yet here we are (AskVoat)
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[–] 9053388? 0 points 2 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago
Elon Musk and many other very intelligent people think we are living in a simulation. We are not the substrate but software running on a substrate. Do a search on ancestor simulations.
[–] tanukihat 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I agree with him. With the way computers are advancing, in a hundred years or so we'll have computers powerful enough to simulate the whole world. There is no reason to assume humanity hasn't already done that. Sure it may be 2017 here in the simulation but who's to say it's not 2217 out there?
[–] TheKid22 [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Okay then where does the "base matter" of the "first" group of people who simulated our relality's matter come from? That still doesn't answer my question
[–] CrustyBeaver52 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
I think the 3rd dimension is real enough - even if it is simulated (created) by say a higher dimension. I believe this dimension was created so we could experience existence in linear time and space - where you do not know the future - perhaps because time doesn't work like that in the higher dimensions - and perhaps that is boring, or there are certain things that are very hard to learn there, that are much more easily understood by experiencing life here. Maybe this is a vacation, or a school, or a prison, perhaps even a special kind of purgatory.
I believe we are not from here. We are visiting for a while, to experience lifetimes in three dimensional physical form. I also believe in reincarnation. Some of us have been here many times - but there is nothing to say your next life will be as an earthling.
When we die, we are supposed to go back... and most of us do.
So matter - it comes from energy - but where does the energy come from that fuels the universe? This, I believe, comes from the other dimension - some now call this zero point energy - background energy popping into our dimension at the sub atomic level.
If there was nothing here at the beginning - the energy must have come from somewhere.
[–] 9054007? 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
"If there was nothing here at the beginning - the energy must have come from somewhere."
Very good point
[–] TheKid22 [S] ago
Okay that still doesn't answer how that matter exists for us to be in that simulation, does it? See how this question drives me crazy? I've cried dozens of times over this
[–] 9053789? ago (edited ago)
We may sense that matter is real physical stuff but that is just our perception and experience of it. The universe is not as solid and fixed as we perceive, especially since the theory of relativity came out (space and time is relative, space bends, etc..)
Some physicists think math is "real" and that the universe is just a math operation. Other physicists claim the universe is just composed of information. So the "true" meaning of "matter" can become an argument over semantics.