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		pellias on April 17, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Physicists To Test If Universe Is A Computer Simul... So, the big bang was just a bootup of the computer ? And the uptime has been like X billion of years ? This sounds too far fetched.

ceeK on April 17, 2013 [–]

X billion of years for us may in fact just be minutes for those running the simulation.

If you were running a simulation you wouldn't want to have to wait billions of years for the first life to form.

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