For years there has been an idea circulating among scientists and enthusiasts that our world is not really real. Some suggest that this is a simulation in which we live controlled by another being as if we were toys, while others claim to have proof that reality is, in fact, a hologram. Let's review the ideas of those who think it's possible for us to live in a matrix.
We live in a world that, in fact, is a life simulation, created by a "programmer," who controls everything we do as if we were the characters in the Sims game, says Rich Terrile, director of the Center for Evolutionary Computing and Automated Design at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The scientist thinks that the fact that we are not computer models cannot be demonstrated, since "reality is the product of a complex architecture that appeared outside of human consciousness. Terrile therefore suggests the idea that our world would behave just like the reality of the 'Grand Theft Auto' adventure and driving video game.
The idea is not new, since in 2003 philosopher Nick Bostrom suggested that we live in a simulation modeled and regulated by our descendants, that is, from the future. Bostrom and other writers postulate that there are empirical reasons why the simulation hypothesis might be valid. According to his proposal, a future civilization would have such an enormous computing capacity that our descendants could with their developed technologies run a simulation of ancestors. However, the scientist does not explain why these "programmers" would be modeling reality.
In turn, Silas Beane, nuclear physicist at the University of Washington, expands on this idea, affirming that the "simulators" that control our universe can also be simulations, something like "a dream within a dream".
Another idea that is gaining strength is that of holograms. Last week, a group of scientists announced that they had succeeded in demonstrating the "holographic principle," a conjecture about the theories of quantum gravity proposed in 1993 by Gerard 't Hooft. The idea postulates that the universe does not have a three-dimensional space, but that it has a two-dimensional structure similar to a hologram, the projection of which is reflected in an immensely large cosmic horizon.
We will have to wait a little to prove it, or we keep on living and forget about it or we go crazy trying to understand it.