Also, since you mentioned “The Matrix,” if you recall, in the Matrix there glitches in the system, ones that had to be fixed before anyone inside would notice. There was an animated short on the Animatrix that explored this, it was called “Beyond,” and it was all about these kids exploring this ‘haunted’ house which was actually just a glitch in the Matrix, which is why they were able to do all kinds of weird stuff while inside or near that house. So if our world really was a computer simulation, then there would be glitches (big or small) and there would be incidents like the ones portrayed in “Beyond,” since any computer program, even one as complex and intricate as the Matrix have gitches or bugs; but that’s not we see. So it is because of that reason that it is very clear to me that aren’t living in a computer simulated reality, and anyone who thinks this has no solid evidence of it, and it just shows me that the movie, “The Matrix” only served to make people question their existence and question reality all in the wrong ways.

I’m not a physicist or mathematician, but I try to follow current ideas in both as a layperson and the above assertion bothers me. It bothers me because I have read that one way to describe the geometry of Special Relativity is with a Minkowski Space. I have also read that one way to visualize a Minkowski Space as a sausage with time as the length and the surface created by a slice as an AdS.

I imagine, but could be wrong, that the curvature an Anti de Sitter Space is a variable parameter. Since the effects of Special Relativity only become observationally apparent at near light speeds couldn’t our observation that space is flat simply be an artifact of being in a not-near-light-speed intertial frame of reference with respect to most of the observables in the universe? And the corollary of course is that reality is in fact an Anti de Sitter Space?

The tone of Bob’s comment is needlessly and senselessly hostile, and I think it is important to object to this sort of thing, which sadly, is rampant on the Internet. I think such hostile comments make it more difficult for people to communicate with one another. The world would be a much better place without them.

You have a degree, you don’t need to stoop to such questionable marketing tactics.

The whole point is to create discourse about science. It doesn’t matter the details in which science writers or magazines promote the science.

How you word your articles can be better.

You seem very sure about this but do you have any proofs our world is not a simulation?

Dark matter, gravity, spooky action at a distance…..it does not look to me like we can exclude the simulation just yet.

Like our computer simulations…..you will never know you are inside one.

Cheers