WEIRD SCIENCE

Could Our Universe Be A Virtual Reality

A professor in Auckland, New Zealand, published a paper in December that seriously raises the question: could we be in a virtual reality world and universe where the “computer” behind-the-scenes has a processing speed of 186,282.397 miles per second - the maximum speed of light? The professor is Brian Whitworth, Ph.D., in Information Systems and now Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Information and Mathematical Sciences at Massey University in Auckland.

"People assume that objective reality is a proven theory, but it is not. It’s an axiom just as unproven as virtual reality theory.
"So from a scientific perspective, neither objective reality nor virtual reality is proven. And what is happening is that modern physics with things like time dilation and space contraction, teleportation, multi-existence and so on, seem actually more supportive of a virtual reality universe than an objective reality one."

In his paper, Brian Whitworth, Ph.D. Information Systems (Massey University, Auckland NZ), quotes from a 2005 book entitled, The World’s 20 Greatest Unsolved Problems edited by John Vacca:
“Quantum physicists who work with quantum theory every day don’t really know quite what to make of it. They fill blackboards with quantum calculations and acknowledge that it is probably the most powerful, accurate and predictive scientific theory ever developed, but the very suggestion that it might be literally true as a description of Nature is still greeted with cynicism, incomprehension and even anger.”