Quote from: BADecker on June 16, 2016, 06:22:08 AM

Quote from: tokeweed on June 16, 2016, 06:10:47 AM

Quote from: Semidetached on June 16, 2016, 01:55:41 AM

Guys he said there's a billionth of a chance we aren't in a simulation and then we would get to high technology to create a simulation. So either we create the simulation or we're in it

Exactly. The thing is at the pace technology's development is going, we could create a real world simulation sooner or later. Once it's there, you cannot help but wonder what if we're actually in one. And if we do accept it, how do we prove or disprove it?

A thought about where to start proving it.

Already a long time ago high school science classes were teaching that hydrogen atoms are made out of one proton and one electron. The electron revolves around the proton, something like the earth revolves around the sun. (Flat earth people, this is not for you. Browse elsewhere.)

A hydrogen atom is extremely tiny. But if you enlarged one so that the proton in the center was the size of a pinpoint - barely visible in the palm of your hand - the electron would be flashing around it as much as 100 feet away.

What would there be in between the electron and the proton? Nothing... just empty space, just like there is in reality. And while the other atoms are a bit more complex than the hydrogen atom, they are essentially made up of a few little protons, neutrons and electrons... all bouncing around in a gigantic amount of empty space that makes up the vast majority of the volume of any atom.

When you realize that all this stuff that seems so solid in life, is really just a bunch of empty space, you can start to see that this whole thing really is a simulation.

Cool

Looks more like a problem with our senses. And how we make sense of the world. We can't intuitively understand how the world works. The example you gave is good but there are many others. But none of that means reality must conform to our views. Or that if this is a simulation the reality outside would work like we think it should.