User:Chuck514/Our universe is a video game

Ghosts
There are people who are adamant that they’ve seen ghosts or something else supernatural. These sightings could just be a figment of their imagination, but if we are living in a simulation, it could be possible these people actually did see something.

It could be something as simple as a glitch in the system. Things like that happen all the time when you’re playing a game. Seconds later, the game rights itself and you continue on. Ghosts or other paranormal activity could just be reality lagging or skipping, showing images that shouldn’t be there.

Another theory revolves around the idea that ghosts are usually people from the past, haunting places where they used to live because they could be leftovers from an improper deletion. For example, when you delete a file from your computer, it never really disappears — there’s always some trace of it left on your hard drive. It would just take a trace of a person for it to be visible to people, making it seem like they saw a ghost of someone from the past.

We don't know what reality is
Humanity has never really been sure exactly what reality is. Plato used his famous Allegory of the Cave to describe the relativity of reality over 2300 years ago. It involves people being chained up in a cave with their backs to a fire as they watch the shadows on the wall. For them, that’s all reality is, but little do they know that there’s a big world outside of the cave. The point is that we only know what reality is through our senses, and beyond that we’re unsure. Plato wasn’t the only one who questioned reality. For example, around the same time Zhuang Zhou in ancient China came to a similar conclusion independently.

Over the centuries, the theory has evolved along with modern science. This brings us to an interesting twist in the theory when we learned more about neuroscience and how the brain works. It’s a philosophical thought experiment called the ‘Brain-in-a-Vat’. If a brain was in a vat and electrical impulses were sent to the brain to simulate reality, would it have any idea it was just a brain and not really experiencing anything besides the impulses?

We’ve been aware that we’re not sure what reality is for thousands of years. We also know that we may not be able to tell the difference between simulation and reality. Basically, we know how much we don’t know. And with the progress of computers we don’t know where we’re heading.

String theory
In physics there’s a relatively new but complicated concept called string theory. The easiest way to explain it is that there are tiny vibrating strings, kind of like musical strings, that make up the entire universe. What’s interesting is that this is incredibly similar to the very basis of a computer program, which are made from strings of binary code.

Let’s say Sims became self-aware and so intelligent that they began to investigate the nature of their origins. If they were to go to their very basis, they would find strings of binary code. As for the vibrating part, the best way to picture it is how the characters in the Matrix watch the lines of code on their ship. The code is constantly moving and changing to show what’s happening in the Matrix simulation.

Amazingly, physicist Dr. James Gates says that within super-symmetrical equations, which is part of string theory, he’s found something that very much resembles computer code. When he looked into these equations, he found computer code invented by Claude Shannon in the 1940s. Shannon was a mathematician who founded digital computer and digital circuit design theory in 1937. Which leads to interesting questions, like what are his codes doing in the cosmos?

Goldilocks Condition
Life on earth is a miracle of astronomical proportions. In order for any life to exist here, the Earth needed to be the perfect distance from the sun, the other planets had to be the right distance away from us, and gravity had to be just this powerful. Further out into the atmosphere, if solar rays were more powerful or if the properties of the universe had been only slightly different, life on Earth would never have started. The conditions to make life on Earth possible had to be just right, which is why scientists say the Earth is in Goldilocks Conditions.

If you take into consideration everything that came together to make life on Earth happen, the odds are truly mind-blowing. For some perspective, the odds of all the cards coming together to deal a royal flush in five-card poker is one in 649,740. The odds that all factors came together in the right order, at the right time, to create life are Earth are, according to Dr. Ali Binazir, one in 102,685,000. That’s as likely as two million people each rolling the exact same number on a trillion sided die.

It’s beyond miraculous that we’re even here, making it possible that those conditions were actually encoded specifically for us. The player or programmer merely created the atmosphere, chose a few different conditions and the Universe unfolded as it did. Or the world was created minutes ago and all your memories are just part of the program. You have no way of knowing.

So basicly our entire universe is just a manmade creation and we're all just sitting in simulation pods. So who is controlling our universe? Well the answer is quite simple, it's the Illuminati! They're the ones controlling everything and this whole time we've just been living in their simulations. Our lives are a lie and nothing we say or do matters.

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