A Simulation of the Universe

Every day, thousands of simulations are run around the world to take care of many different things, like traffic, weather and other aspects of normal human life. There are even some slightly more extravagant simulations done for things such as tectonic activity, black holes or even simulations of our galaxy, the Milky Way, and our neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy, colliding (heres a short video of this9 simulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4disyKG7XtU). The point is, simulations are going on all the time, we simulate and predict countless parts of life. You probably even simulate things in your own head, when you're day dreaming in class.

With all of these simulations in our own world suggest something profound about the existence of our whole universe. This idea is a pretty unusual concept, and in earlier times would probably have been considered blasphemous for the very thought, but may not come easily so as I try to explain it keep an open mind, explore the suggestions and arguments for yourself. Try to come to your own conclusion about it, because this is just one side to the story. Before I explain the thought behind it, all of these simulations suggest that our entire universe itself, including everything in it (and us), is a simulation. Let me explain.

As I said before, there are countless simulations we do everyday all around the world covering an immense variety of situations. As far as we know, the "reality" that we experience every day is the only one that is what the adjective suggests; real. Just in sheer numbers, there are incredibly more simulated realities than there are real ones, and just based on these probabilities it seems incredibly unlikely that our universe actually is real.

At this point you're probably asking yourself where the simulation could have come from, who or what is running it, and many more questions which I earlier asked you to keep an open mind about and consider. These are important questions to look at because they reveal things about our universe and possible others that you may not have thought of before. 

First, who or what is running the simulation? As I said before, that the whole simulation idea is blasphemous, this question suggests something like a godlike figure, someone or something carrying out this simulation is basically controlling our entire universe. It could be some alien race, just a giant computer, or really any possibility you can think of. Another thing you might think is maybe the thing controlling our universal simulation is only in their own simulation, and then someone else controlling the ones controlling the simulation controlling us, and so on and so on to infinity. This really proposes that everything in our universe is not real at all.

This is a lot of information to take in and it can be a hard concept to grasp. I would be lying if I said I fully understood it, but it is intriguing to think about nonetheless. I encourage you to think about this idea more and in the next post I will try to do a better job at explaining my thoughts on the subject more deeply.