Less than a month ago, this Blogger published the following: “One of the stunning revelations about living in the 21stCentury is that every year, every month, every week, seemingly every day, science. Astronomy, astrophysics, cosmology or a combination of all, opens a convenient pathway to the realization God does exist.
In the 21stCentury, Science may do what Faith has had trouble doing, proving that God was the Creator, and is still doing things that mystify Science. …THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
In light of that Mystery, Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Quantum Theory has flung itself into mythmaking, worthy of a whale swallowing Jonah.
“How real are you? What if everything you are, everything you know, all the people in your life as well as all the events were not physically there but just a very elaborate simulation? Philosopher Nick Bostrom famously considered this in his seminal paper "Are you living in a computer simulation?," where he proposed that all of our existence may be just a product of very sophisticated computer simulations ran by advanced beings whose real nature we may never be able to know.Now a new theory has come along that takes it a step further – what if there are no advanced beings either and everything in "reality" is a self-simulation that generates itself from pure thought?
The physical universe is a "strange loop" says the new paper titled "The Self-Simulation Hypothesis Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics" from the team at the Quantum Gravity Research, a Los Angeles-based theoretical physics institute founded by the scientist and entrepreneur Klee Irwin. They take Bostrom's simulation hypothesis, which maintains that all of reality is an extremely detailed computer program, and ask, rather than relying on advanced lifeforms to create the amazing technology necessary to compose everything within our world, isn't it more efficient to propose that the universe itself is a "mental self-simulation"? They tie this idea to quantum mechanics, seeing the universe as one of many possible quantum gravity models.
One important aspect that differentiates this view relates to the fact that Bostrom's original hypothesis is materialistic, seeing the universe as inherently physical. To Bostrom, we could simply be part of an ancestor simulation, engineered by posthumans. Even the process of evolution itself could just be a mechanism by which the future beings are testing countless processes, purposefully moving humans through levels of biological and technological growth. In this way they also generate the supposed information or history of our world. Ultimately, we wouldn't know the difference.
But where does the physical reality that would generate the simulations comes from, wonder the researchers? Their hypothesis takes a non-materialistic approach, saying that everything is information expressed as thought. As such, the universe "self-actualizes" itself into existence, relying on underlying algorithms and a rule they call "the principle of efficient language."
Under this proposal, the entire simulation of everything in existence is just one "grand thought." How would the simulation itself be originated? It was always there, say the researchers, explaining the concept of "timeless emergentism." According to this idea, time isn't there at all. Instead, the all-encompassing thought that is our reality offers a nested semblance of a hierarchical order, full of "sub-thoughts" that reach all the way down the rabbit hole towards the base mathematics and fundamental particles. This is also where the rule of efficient language comes in, suggesting that humans themselves are such "emergent sub-thoughts" and they experience and find meaning in the world through other sub-thoughts (called "code-steps or actions") in the most economical fashion.
In correspondence with Big Think, physicist David Chester elaborated: "While many scientists presume materialism to be true, we believe that quantum mechanics may provide hints that our reality is a mental construct. Recent advances in quantum gravity, such as seeing spacetime emergent via a hologram, also is a hint that spacetime is not fundamental. This is also compatible with ancient Hermetic and Indian philosophy. In a sense, the mental construct of reality creates spacetime to efficiently understand itself by creating a network of subconscious entities that can interact and explore the totality of possibilities."
The scientists link their hypothesis to panpsychism, which sees everything as thought or consciousness. The authors think that their "panpsychic self-simulation model" can even explain the origin of an overarching panconsciousness at the foundational level of the simulations, which "self-actualizes itself in a strange loop via self-simulation." This panconsciousness also has free will and its various nested levels essentially have the ability to select what code to actualize, while making syntax choices. The goal of this consciousness? To generate meaning or information.
If all of this is hard to grasp, the authors offer another interesting idea that may link your everyday experience to these philosophical considerations. Think of your dreams as your own personal self-simulations, postulates the team. While they are rather primitive (by super-intelligent future AI standards), dreams tend to provide better resolution than current computer modeling and are a great example of the evolution of the human mind. As the scientists write, "What is most remarkable is the ultra-high-fidelity resolution of these mind-based simulations and the accuracy of the physics therein." They point especially to lucid dreams, where the dreamer is aware of being in a dream, as instances of very accurate simulations created by your mind that may be impossible to distinguish from any other reality. To that end, now that you're sitting here reading this article, how do you really know you're not in a dream? The experience seems very high in resolution but so do some dreams. It's not too much of a reach to imagine that an extremely powerful computer that we may be able to make in not-too-distant future could duplicate this level of detail.
The team also proposes that in the coming years we will be able to create designer consciousnesses for ourselves as advancements in gene editing could allow us to make our own mind-simulations much more powerful. We may also see minds emerging that do not require matter at all…..BIG THINK”
In that same Blog, a few weeks ago, this Blogger discussed the light in the Universe.
The following is excerpted from that Blog:
“New Horizons was originally designed to explore Pluto, but after whizzing past the dwarf planet in 2015, the intrepid spacecraft just kept going. It's now more than 4 billion miles from home — nearly 50 times farther away from the sun than the Earth is.
That's important because it means the spacecraft is far from major sources of light contamination that make it impossible to detect any tiny light signal from the universe itself. ….Marc Postman, an astronomer with the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore.,So maybe there are unrecognized galaxies out there, he says"or some other source of light that we don't yet know what it is."
The new findings are sure to get astronomers talking.
"They're saying that there's as much light outside of galaxies as there is inside of galaxies, which is a pretty tough pill to swallow, frankly,"notes Michael Zemcov, an astrophysicist at Rochester Institute of Technology, who was not part of the research team.
…….He says for 400 years, astronomers have been studying visible light and the sky in a serious way and yet somehow apparently "missed half the light in the universe."
"It's very difficult to turn around and say to the astronomical community, like, 'Hey, guys, we're missing half of the stuff out there,' " Zemcov says. Still, he buys the results: "I think the work is really solid."
So where does the light come from? …… perhaps there's a more exotic explanation — some unknown phenomenon out in the universe that creates visible light.…..NPR.”
There has been a follow-up on that mysterious universe light.
“The universe is a shade too bright.
…..“There’s something out there unknown,” said Tod Lauer, of the National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory in Tucson, Ariz. “The universe is not completely dark, and we don’t yet completely know what it comprises.”
……For centuries, the darkness of the night sky was the source of a paradox named after the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers. Presumably, in an infinite static universe, every line of sight ends at a star, so shouldn’t the sky appear as bright as the sun?
But astronomers now know that the universe is only 13.8 billion years old and expanding. As a result, most lines of sight do not end on stars but on the fading glow of the Big Bang, and the wavelengths of the glow are now so extended that they are invisible to the eye, making the sky look dark.
But how dark is dark?
……What we can’t see may yet change our understanding of the universe, but Dan Hooper, a physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., splashed cold water on the idea that the culprit was dark matter.In an email, he said that he and his colleagues, brainstorming, had not come up with any new physics that would explain this added light, “with the exception of a couple of really baroque and otherwise unappealing options.”…NEW YORK TIMES.
To an astrophysicist, having a Creator create the Universe is about as baroque and unappealing as possible. More appealing is the concept Mankind is living in a self induced MATRIX.
On October 15, 2015, this Blogger published The "Spooky Things" in Quantum Theory are Proven:God's Speed of Information is FASTER than Einstein's Speed of Light....
The following is excerpted from that Blog;
“….Einstein was calling the unknowns beyond hidden variables in quantum theory "Spooky things", but what that latest European experiment in physics informs us is that the term spooky things applies to both physics and God.
…..The key cosmology of physics is quantum theory. As a layman, this Blogger has been studying quantum theory since 2006; and after a decade he can admit he understands barely a whisper or whimper of it. It is gobbledygook on an operatic scale, much like the Old Testament….
“Quantum theory is the theoretical basis of modern physics that explains the nature and behavior of matter and energy on the atomic and subatomic level.”
All well and good except there is a reason that it is a THEORY.
Supposedly light, the speed of light is the fastest thing in the universe, according to Einstein. However, within the quantum theory there is the worm of ENTANGLEMENT, forever interlocking the fates of subatomic particles, regardless of their separation. So if a photon on one side of the galaxy spins up, an instant later on the other side of the galaxy its twin photon will spin down
…..Suggesting that INFORMATION TRAVELS FASTER THAN LIGHT.
This was very upsetting to Einstein, because the suggestion that information travels faster than light is a no-no in his special theory of relativity.
He dismissed it as unworthy “spooky things”, and invented the concept of hidden variables. Hidden variables are mystical science, much like miracles; consider them miracles for physicists. Their sole purpose is to find an explanation within the universal speed limit of light to explain the speed of information traveling above the universal speed limit.
In 1964, a British physicist, John Bell worked out the Bell Inequality which was an equation which supposedly worked out the maximum effect hidden variables could have on any experiment in physics. Beyond his limit, physicists attributed spooky power to their results.
Last week, European physicists did a test which banned Einstein’s hidden variables from the lexicon of physics. They proved mystical things are indeed happening in the speed of information, unexplainable by any scientific mumbo jumbo like hidden variables.
….Or : “There remains, alas, one hitch that could explain all these counterintuitive findings. Just maybe, every single event that will ever be, from experimenters’ choices of the means of measurement to the choice of article you will read next, were all predetermined at the universe’s birth, and all these experiments are playing out just as predetermined…THE ECONOMIST.”
Every experiment in quantum theory is driving Mankind to the conclusion that it is all pre-determined….THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
On March 30, 2018, this Blogger published: Astrophysics and God-A Galaxy Exists without DARK MATTER, Which Should NOT Happen in a Godless Universe.
The following is excerpted from that Blog:
“….. Astrophysics is the easiest path to believing in the existence of God.
Lately, the only thing which astrophysics has been doing is proving the existence of a Creator, a God.
....Einstein’s spooky things are God’s mysteries; ENTANGLEMENT may well be predestination, pre- ordered by a Creator....THE MAXEY CHRONICLES."
On January 23, 2020, this Blogger published: 2020 Astrophysics Devolves into Divine Confusion
The following is excerpted from that Blog:
“Time is a seminal problem for physicists, and astrophysicists. By all the applied laws of physics, Mankind should be able to go both back in time, and forward in time; physics tells us that should be possible. But against the laws of physics, Time is an arrow, going only one way- forward. If one built a time machine in 2020, one could go to the year 2050; but the Time Traveler would not be able to return to 2020. Time goes against physics; astrophysicist Stephen Hawking in his tome A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, asked his Readers to imagine a time without Time, before the Big Bang. If anyone can imagine a time before Time, without Time, one can believe in a whale swallowing Jonah, and Jonah coming out alive.
Not satisfied with creating a myth that there was a time before time without Time, astrophysicists have doubled down. Now they have created a fantasy that there is a parallel universe in which Time goes backwards. Sort of a MERLIN Universe, in which everything ages backwards.
“Why does time seem to move forward? It’s a riddle that’s puzzled physicists for well over a century, and they’ve come up with numerous theories to explain time’s arrow. The latest, though, suggests that while time moves forward in our universe, it may run backwards in another, mirror universe that was created on the “other side” of the Big Bang.
Two leading theories propose to explain the direction of time by way of the relatively uniform conditions of the Big Bang. At the very start, what is now the universe was homogeneously hot, so much so that matter didn’t really exist. It was all just a superheated soup. But as the universe expanded and cooled, stars, galaxies, planets, and other celestial bodies formed, birthing the universe’s irregular structure and raising its entropy.
One theory, proposed in 2004 by Sean Carroll, now a professor at Caltech, and Jennifer Chen, then his graduate student, says that time moves forward because of the contrast in entropy between then and now, with an emphasis on the fact that the future universe will so much more disordered than the past. That movement toward high entropy gives time its direction.
The new theory says a low entropy early universe is inevitable because of gravity, and ultimately that’s what gives time its arrow. To test the idea, the theory’s proponents assembled a simple model with nothing more than 1,000 particles and the physics of Newtonian gravity. Here’s Lee Billings, reporting for Scientific American:
….But here’s the twist: The expansion after the simulated Big Bang didn’t just happen in one direction, but two. The simple Big Bang they modeled produced two universes, one a mirror of the other. In one universe, time appears to run forwards. In the other, time runs backwards, at least from our perspective….. …..PBS.”
Readers, this layman of a Blogger has a prima facie problem with that Time in Reverse Universe Theory; it fails to explain why any universe should exist, let alone a Time in reverse Universe. By the applied laws of physics, no Universe should exist, including the current one we are experiencing, with Time as a Straight Arrow.
“One of the great mysteries of modern physics is why antimatter did not destroy the Universe at the beginning of time.
….All of our observations find a complete symmetry between matter and antimatter, which is why the universe should not actually exist,” says Christian Smorra, a physicist at CERN’s Baryon–Antibaryon Symmetry Experiment (BASE) collaboration.
“An asymmetry must exist here somewhere but we simply do not understand where the difference is.”….The standard model predicts the Big Bang should have produced equal amounts of matter and antimatter
– but that’s a combustive mixture that would have annihilated itself, leaving nothing behind to make galaxies or planets or people….cosmosmagazine.”
But this Universe does exist; perhaps Jonah in the belly of the whale knows why.
Mankind is living through an explosion of astrophysics which is proving there are physical things which exist which should not exist, including the Universe itself.
The Big Rip, the Big Crunch, the Big Bang, spooky things, cosmic entanglement, information traveling faster than light,(which implies predestination, which implies John Calvin was the greatest astrophysicist ever), Black holes devouring neutron stars, …astrophysics is in A TOTAL STATE OF CONFUSION; cosmology is in a total state of confusion.
The seminal question is this- can Science explain how Nature created an existing universe where a universe,by all the laws of physics, should not exist?
In 2020, astrophysicists must grapple with the following: Can Science explain Cosmological Confusion?
….As a religious experience, following astrophysics in 2020 is really fascinating….THE MAXEY CHRONICLES.”
One of the few joys of living in 2020 is relishing the decline of astrophysics, cosmology, and physics to the level of religion for Yahoos. Every day, new discoveries in astrophysics prove that what scientists thought they knew, had as much credibility as the beliefs of shamans, dwelling on some mountaintop.
THE MATRIX, more palatable than God for Astrophysicists
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