the thread that can't be derailed....

[cynthialee]

This thread should be renamed to the Bacon Thread

keep your revisionist names off my thread!

this is the greatest testament to our colective madness ever!

muhahahaha

[King Malachite]

Nothing

[Kevin Peña]

I love how I proposed an interesting view of the universe, yet the discussion immediately moved back to bacon and "nothing."

[soulfairer]

Ok, I just thought about something: if humans eventually will reach the computer technology to simulate elaborate things like entire universes, then maybe we're the simulation of an advanced race. Woah... trippy.

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/429561/the-measurement-that-would-reveal-the-universe-as-a-computer-simulation/

But one thing is to simulate an elaborate thing like that (I wonder how much 10^n femtometres would be (don't remember n, so it's n, haha)) and other is to create an elaborate thing like that!

[soulfairer]

I love how I proposed an interesting view of the universe, yet the discussion immediately moved back to bacon and "nothing."

It's Sartre speaking there!

[Kevin Peña]

Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. 

Imagine if we do find out if we're just a simulation.

Besides, it's always good to change topics, regardless of how good bacon might be. 

[soulfairer]

Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. 

Imagine if we do find out if we're just a simulation.

Besides, it's always good to change topics, regardless of how good bacon might be. 

From the article: "10^-12 femtometers" - imagine THIS tiny amount (don't know whether they didn't use 10^-9 attometers or 10^-27 meters, but still)

Imagine how many femtometers of simulated matter to build a single bacon strip! Hrmmmmm

[V M]

The universe is comprised of bacon and nothingness

[BlueSloth]

There's an argument (from the philosopher Nick Bostrom) that if people are going to be running universe simulations someday, then we're probably in one.

There's no need to simulate every quark and electron and gluon and whatnot in perfect detail.  The simulation only has to be good enough to convince us it's real.  There's no reason to assume that future civilizations will run one simulation and then unanimously decide to give up on the whole idea forever, so there would probably be lots of simulations.  With all those simulations, how can we assume that our world is the one real one?

The converse is that if we're not in a simulation, then those kinds of simulations will probably never happen.

[King Malachite]

You gotta put in he work and pay your dues....

[V M]

The universe was originally referred to as The Cosmic Redundancy, but no-one could spell or sing very well so the scientists decided that only one verse was necessary

[suzifrommd]

Femtometer = 10^-15 meters. We're almost there. A few more millenia, and we would be able to simulate a universe. 

Femtometer - a gadget that measures how femme you are? As in "I registered only a 34 on the femtometer. My GT says he won't approve HRT until I get to at least 60  ."

[Shantel]

Femtometer - a gadget that measures how femme you are? As in "I registered only a 34 on the femtometer. My GT says he won't approve HRT until I get to at least 60  ."

How strange, I've never heard of anything like that and had to google it as I'm very gullible, you almost had me there! 

[Shantel]

[MadelineB]

I'd like to see the universe that could simulate me! I'd cook him an entire slab of artisan bacon and eat it with him.

[King Malachite]

Gladiator!

[nickikim]

potatoe

[King Malachite]

Unrailed

[nickikim]

Unrailed

I sneak back here, risking much familial turmoil to scream potato in deliberate misspelling, and you call this unrailed, thanks for being so supportive. No bacon for you.

[ativan]

Bought an old Lexicon Alex effects processor at a pawn shop. Some of the ranges are hard to get, I suppose I either have to clean the pot or get a new one. But it's fun, I haven't played with one of these in too many years.
*another toy*
Ativan