> It's also possible that there would be logistical
> problems in creating layer upon layer of simulations.
> There might not be enough computing power to continue
> the simulation if billions of inhabitants of a virtual
> world started creating their own virtual worlds with
> billions of inhabitants apiece.
What a ridiculous conclusion. It seems to me, the logical way to handle this is to simulate an entire universe, galaxies to atoms.
That might sound like it requires an impractical amount of processing power... but only to us _inside_ this universe. If you think about it, it's obviously impractical to simulate an entire universe within the universe itself.
In our parent universe, this wouldn't be an issue. Their speed of light must be faster, their atoms smaller. Moore's Law continues apace for them, and they can build computers that seem unthinkably powerful to us.
And the weirdness of quantum physics shows the kind of hacks they've made to get it to run.
I'm thinking about writing a short story where a guy implements a universe in 7 days...
What a ridiculous conclusion. It seems to me, the logical way to handle this is to simulate an entire universe, galaxies to atoms.
That might sound like it requires an impractical amount of processing power... but only to us _inside_ this universe. If you think about it, it's obviously impractical to simulate an entire universe within the universe itself.
In our parent universe, this wouldn't be an issue. Their speed of light must be faster, their atoms smaller. Moore's Law continues apace for them, and they can build computers that seem unthinkably powerful to us.
And the weirdness of quantum physics shows the kind of hacks they've made to get it to run.
I'm thinking about writing a short story where a guy implements a universe in 7 days...