Computing a Universe Simulation

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/DonateSPACE Physics seems to be telling us that it’s possible to simulate the entire universe on a computer smaller than the universe. You can further support us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/pbsspacetime Space Time Challenge Winners Jin Du Loren Booker Kevin Selva Prasanna May Awbin John Reza Ian Grams Challenge Winners: Please [email protected] with your name, address, US t-shirt size – small, medium, large, extra large, or extra-extra-large and let us know which T you’d like. Get your own Space Time t­-shirt at http://bit.ly/1QlzoBi Tweet at us! @pbsspacetime Facebook: facebook.com/pbsspacetime Email us! pbsspacetime [at] gmail [dot] com Comment on Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/pbsspacetime Help translate our videos! https://www.youtube.com/timedtext_cs_... Previous Episode: How to Detect Extra Dimensions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HYw6vPR9qU Hosted by Matt O'Dowd Written by Matt O'Dowd Graphics by Luke Maroldi Assistant Editing and Sound Design by Mike Petrow Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) I’m not saying the universe is a simulation. I mean it might be – I’m just not saying it. And perhaps it doesn’t make any difference. Even if this is the prime, the original physical universe, rather than somewhere deep in a simulation nest, we can STILL think of our universe’s underlying mechanics as computation. Imagine a unive

Published 2018-10-10 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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