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2 hours ago, Pariah said:

I'm pretty safe in saying that if this were a simulation, I've been here long enough that I would've noticed something by now. 


Actually you were instantiated five minutes ago with preprogrammed memories and personality. Hopefully this patch will fix the bug. 

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I am fairly confident this guy Vopson is a crackpot. Any scientifically literate person can figure out that his apparatus would need detectors made of pure atmpospherium, and his planned budget isn't nearly large enough to cover that expense.

 

A little more seriously... I followed the link back to Vopson's article in some e-periodical called "The Conversation," and was not impressed. The "arguments" for a simulated universe are based on wooly analogies that really aren't that analogous. His plan to test his "Mass/Energy/Information Principle" by annihilating electrons and positrons also seems a little... well, little. Physicists have been measuring electron-positron collisions for decades. I would ask Vopson what he expects to find with his planned tabletop apparatus that CERN, Fermilab, Brookhaven and other labs missed.

 

So I smell a crackpot or a con. Still, it could be a good supervillain origin. A radical theory, self-funding a homemade apparatus because the mocking tongues of the Academy make regular funding impossible, the potential to rip a hole in reality itself... classic.

 

Dean Shomshak

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