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Day 3 news response

Madelyn Perkovich

       I'm not going to lie, my heart beat pretty fast reading this one.
I've always been interested in science, particularity physics. Exploring theories on human existence and the composition of our universe can entertain me for hours, it leaves me with the adrenaline of something bigger, heavier, and deeper than day to day life. This is probably the craziest, most mind blowing theory I've read, and before you think its ridiculous, please read the article. So, are we just a computer simulation? This is actually a legit scientific hypothesis. Moderator Neil DeGrasse Tyson believes it to be as high as a 50/50 chance we are just a program on someones hard drive. Reading on this previously, it is said that a higher up universe, or advanced people from the future could want to simulate the past for entertainment or ancestral purposes. Computers this advanced to make up an entire existence are not far out of reach, even for us. As for proving this theory, there is solid evidence that make up this hypothesis. For instance, most of what we know of our world, and the laws of physics boil down to mathematical rules and equations. One theoretical physicist discovered the same math equations he was studying about the granules that make up our universe, are the same equations used to make a computer run. It would be much more difficult to prove our universe is real, because any proof we find could easily be simulated as well. 

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