From: Spudboy100@aol.com
Date: Thu Jun 05 2003 - 07:09:31 MDT
Weighing in from New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/inprint/ipcontents.jsp
<<Glitch
We should pay more attention to scientific anomalies, says cosmologist John
Barrow. They might be telling us our universe is nothing more than a badly
written simulation >>
This article isn't accessible online, and I am a subscriber to New Scientist,
so I'll yodel if there is anything worth reporting, when I receive the
magazine via snail mail next week. Barrow now works at Cambridge (If I remember
correctly), and publishes several papers per year. He, and Frank Tipler came up
with the Final Anthropic Principle back in the mid-1980's.
As to the veracity of the cosmos being a sim, I find this to be unlikely,
unless we re-define what a simulation is. Perhaps, defined correctly, there is no
underly physical reality, merely "simmulations." Though, if that is true,
then we are basically estimating angels dancing on heads of pins; just being
pendantically pendantic.
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