Is Our Universe a Computer Simulation?

We know 'The Matrix' just a movie, but is it really? Researchers at the University of Washington say they have devised a test to tell us whether our entire universe- and even us people- are just some giant computer simulation. What could this test possibly be? Anthony plugs in and finds out.

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[MSE]

customer(C): Hi, i'm having an issue with my simulation...
customer support(S): hello there, what kind of programs are you running?
C: well, just the bascis. Plants, trees, microbes, animals...
S:do you run any mods?
C: yes, I installed "humans" and had it develop a few million years ago.
S: We don't support "humans". They act wierd and can mess up things.

[Seeker]

That explains why I can never find the ladder when I'm trying to get out of the pool. -Anthony

[Matthw]

Does anyone else view this possibility depressing, the idea that if we are in a simulation, that everyone that you have ever known/loved isnt real.

[_yom_]

maybe the reason aliens fan break the speed of light is because they're like admins who have entered the simulated universe

[QuantumBraced]

Sorry to get even more philosophical, but if we did discover it was a simulation, then how can we say it's not actually real? What does that even mean? Our only standard for reality is our Universe, so a "simulation" is just a type of reality or reality itself. It actually doesn't make sense to say it's not real.

[jeffreyharrison]

I would answer that question, but no one is real, so what's the point. I am just talking to myself. 

[ShadyBwady]

sometimes I feel everyone has their own life. you're the only one in your life. everyone else is controlled by a force because every single one beings life is in a simulation.

[akirasaito]

I don't deny the possibility of our universe being a computer simulation. I often thought, as a kid, what if our universe was just part of an tiny cell in another creatures body? I truly wonder about this subject

[NikoGustafson]

Omg for my whole life I thought I was the only person who actually thought about this!!! :D

[JayMelloProductions]

let me get off the internet before i miss school. these videos have me hooked!!! you have earned a :D

[madmandan]

What if one day when we do find out that this is all just a simulation, then our whole reality would dissolve into darkness.

Then some text would appear and we hear a voice saying "Level 2!"

[princeofexcess]

what if they actually are updating their ram and thats why the universe is expanding... And their simulation could be so large that we could never get to the boundaries.

[tholc]

If it was a computer simulation, wouldn't they program us to not be able to think of the possibility of that we are a computer simulation?

[tahilaci]

1:02 "We are years off from making a simulated universe of our own". LOL did you mean millennia?

[Rage]

if we are a simulation i need to learn how to hack ourselfs

[Sausagesaucey]

The real question is: "What would we DO if we found out we ACTUALLY lived inside a computer simulation?"

[Klyons]

Very cool way to actually test it! I was skeptical, but that's neat haha

[GothicscullGmail]

it's actually not depressing at all.

[ronaldpokatiloff]

WE ARE ROBOTS FROM DNA CODE IN A COMPUTER

[HillkillTheGamer]

Sometimes I think whenever I look at a spec of dust, I think there's a little universe in there, and the people in that universe are looking at a spec of dust and thinking its a universe as well, and we're probably one of those specs of dust, and someone's looking down at us, yeah pretty cool, right?