Reply to post: Re: A (mostly) serious question @Mage

Plasma bubbles 500 times the size of earth, ultra-hot rain - let's face it, the Sun's not a place to hang out nearby

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Re: A (mostly) serious question @Mage

If the universe can be described as a holographic projection (and it isn't a suitable space* so as of writing, no) that would not make it a simulation. It would just be a different description, useful if it simplified some calculations, explained the relations between things that currently appear unrelated, or otherwise gave rise to new laws.

*I vaguely recall the idea only works for de Sitter spaces, perhaps someone can clarify.

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