"Some of the world’s richest and most powerful people are convinced that we are living in a computer simulation. And now they’re trying to do something about it.
At least two of Silicon Valley’s tech billionaires are pouring money into efforts to break humans out of the simulation that they believe that it is living in, according to a new report.
Philosophers have long been concerned about how we can know that our world isn’t just a very believable simulation of a real one. But concern about that has become ever more active in recent years, as computers and artificial intelligence have advanced.
Elon Musk - The chance that we are not living in a computer simulation is 'one in billions'
That has led some tech billionaires to speculate that the chances we are not living in such a simulation is “billions to one”. Even Bank of America analysts wrote last month that the chances we are living in a Matrix-style fictional world is as high as 50 per cent.
“Many people in Silicon Valley have become obsessed with the simulation hypothesis, the argument that what we experience as reality is in fact fabricated in a computer,” writes The New Yorker’s Tad Friend. “Two tech billionaires have gone so far as to secretly engage scientists to work on breaking us out of the simulation.”
The detail came from a New Yorker profile of Sam Altman, who runs Y Combinator which helps develop tech companies.
Mr Friend didn’t indicate whether Mr Altman was one of those two, or who those people might be. A number of prominent tech billionaires have discussed the idea of the simulation – including Elon Musk, who has used his fortune to fund potentially odd efforts in the past.
Mr Musk spoke earlier this year about the fact that he believes that the chance that we are not living in a computer simulation is “one in billions”. He said that he had come to that conclusion after a chat in a hot tub, where it was pointed out that computing technology has advanced so quickly that at some point in the future it will become indistinguishable from real life – and, if it does, there’s no reason to think that it hasn’t done already and that that’s what we are currently living through."
Source
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computer-simulation-world-matrix-scientists-elon-musk-artificial-intelligence-ai-a7347526.html
Thursday, March 28, 2019
Physicists reverse time using quantum computer
"Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past. They also calculated the probability that an electron in empty interstellar space will spontaneously travel back into its recent past. The study is published in Scientific Reports.
"This is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future," said the study's lead author Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information Technology at MIPT.
"We began by describing a so-called local perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Then, in December, we published a paper that discusses the violation of the second law via a device called a Maxwell's demon," Lesovik said. "The most recent paper approaches the same problem from a third angle: We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time."
What makes the future different from the past
Most laws of physics make no distinction between the future and the past. For example, let an equation describe the collision and rebound of two identical billiard balls. If a close-up of that event is recorded with a camera and played in reverse, it can still be represented by the same equation. Moreover, it is not possible to distinguish from the recording if it has been doctored. Both versions look plausible. It would appear that the billiard balls defy the intuitive sense of time.
However, imagine recording a cue ball breaking the pyramid, the billiard balls scattering in all directions. In that case, it is easy to distinguish the real-life scenario from reverse playback. What makes the latter look so absurd is our intuitive understanding of the second law of thermodynamics—an isolated system either remains static or evolves toward a state of chaos rather than order.
Most other laws of physics do not prevent rolling billiard balls from assembling into a pyramid, infused tea from flowing back into the tea bag, or a volcano from "erupting" in reverse. But these phenomena are not observed, because they would require an isolated system to assume a more ordered state without any outside intervention, which runs contrary to the second law. The nature of that law has not been explained in full detail, but researchers have made great headway in understanding the basic principles behind it.
Spontaneous time reversal
Quantum physicists from MIPT decided to check if time could spontaneously reverse itself at least for an individual particle and for a tiny fraction of a second. That is, instead of colliding billiard balls, they examined a solitary electron in empty interstellar space.
"Suppose the electron is localized when we begin observing it. This means that we're pretty sure about its position in space. The laws of quantum mechanics prevent us from knowing it with absolute precision, but we can outline a small region where the electron is localized," says study co-author Andrey Lebedev from MIPT and ETH Zurich.
The physicist explains that the evolution of the electron state is governed by Schrödinger's equation. Although it makes no distinction between the future and the past, the region of space containing the electron will spread out very quickly. That is, the system tends to become more chaotic. The uncertainty of the electron's position is growing. This is analogous to the increasing disorder in a large-scale system—such as a billiard table—due to the second law of thermodynamics.
Physicists reverse time using quantum computer
The four stages of the actual experiment on a quantum computer mirror the stages of the thought experiment involving an electron in space and the imaginary analogy with billiard balls. Each of the three systems initially evolves from order …more.
"However, Schrödinger's equation is reversible," adds Valerii Vinokur, a co-author of the paper, from the Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. "Mathematically, it means that under a certain transformation called complex conjugation, the equation will describe a 'smeared' electron localizing back into a small region of space over the same time period." Although this phenomenon is not observed in nature, it could theoretically happen due to a random fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background permeating the universe.
The team set out to calculate the probability to observe an electron "smeared out" over a fraction of a second spontaneously localizing into its recent past. It turned out that even across the entire lifetime of the universe—13.7 billion years—observing 10 billion freshly localized electrons every second, the reverse evolution of the particle's state would only happen once. And even then, the electron would travel no more than a mere one ten-billionth of a second into the past.
Large-scale phenomena involving billiard balls and volcanoes obviously unfold on much greater timescales and feature an astounding number of electrons and other particles. This explains why we do not observe old people growing younger or an ink blot separating from the paper.
Reversing time on demand
The researchers then attempted to reverse time in a four-stage experiment. Instead of an electron, they observed the state of a quantum computer made of two and later three basic elements called superconducting qubits.
Stage 1: Order. Each qubit is initialized in the ground state, denoted as zero. This highly ordered configuration corresponds to an electron localized in a small region, or a rack of billiard balls before the break.
Stage 2: Degradation. The order is lost. Just like the electron is smeared out over an increasingly large region of space, or the rack is broken on the pool table, the state of the qubits becomes an ever more complex changing pattern of zeros and ones. This is achieved by briefly launching the evolution program on the quantum computer. Actually, a similar degradation would occur by itself due to interactions with the environment. However, the controlled program of autonomous evolution will enable the last stage of the experiment.
Stage 3: Time reversal. A special program modifies the state of the quantum computer in such a way that it would then evolve "backwards," from chaos toward order. This operation is akin to the random microwave background fluctuation in the case of the electron, but this time, it is deliberately induced. An obviously far-fetched analogy for the billiards example would be someone giving the table a perfectly calculated kick.
Stage 4: Regeneration. The evolution program from the second stage is launched again. Provided that the "kick" has been delivered successfully, the program does not result in more chaos but rather rewinds the state of the qubits back into the past, the way a smeared electron would be localized or the billiard balls would retrace their trajectories in reverse playback, eventually forming a triangle.
The researchers found that in 85 percent of the cases, the two-qubit quantum computer returned back into the initial state. When three qubits were involved, more errors happened, resulting in a roughly 50 percent success rate. According to the authors, these errors are due to imperfections in the actual quantum computer. As more sophisticated devices are designed, the error rate is expected to drop.
Interestingly, the time reversal algorithm itself could prove useful for making quantum computers more precise. "Our algorithm could be updated and used to test programs written for quantum computers and eliminate noise and errors," Lebedev explained.
Source
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-physicists-reverse-quantum.html
"This is one in a series of papers on the possibility of violating the second law of thermodynamics. That law is closely related to the notion of the arrow of time that posits the one-way direction of time from the past to the future," said the study's lead author Gordey Lesovik, who heads the Laboratory of the Physics of Quantum Information Technology at MIPT.
"We began by describing a so-called local perpetual motion machine of the second kind. Then, in December, we published a paper that discusses the violation of the second law via a device called a Maxwell's demon," Lesovik said. "The most recent paper approaches the same problem from a third angle: We have artificially created a state that evolves in a direction opposite to that of the thermodynamic arrow of time."
What makes the future different from the past
Most laws of physics make no distinction between the future and the past. For example, let an equation describe the collision and rebound of two identical billiard balls. If a close-up of that event is recorded with a camera and played in reverse, it can still be represented by the same equation. Moreover, it is not possible to distinguish from the recording if it has been doctored. Both versions look plausible. It would appear that the billiard balls defy the intuitive sense of time.
However, imagine recording a cue ball breaking the pyramid, the billiard balls scattering in all directions. In that case, it is easy to distinguish the real-life scenario from reverse playback. What makes the latter look so absurd is our intuitive understanding of the second law of thermodynamics—an isolated system either remains static or evolves toward a state of chaos rather than order.
Most other laws of physics do not prevent rolling billiard balls from assembling into a pyramid, infused tea from flowing back into the tea bag, or a volcano from "erupting" in reverse. But these phenomena are not observed, because they would require an isolated system to assume a more ordered state without any outside intervention, which runs contrary to the second law. The nature of that law has not been explained in full detail, but researchers have made great headway in understanding the basic principles behind it.
Spontaneous time reversal
Quantum physicists from MIPT decided to check if time could spontaneously reverse itself at least for an individual particle and for a tiny fraction of a second. That is, instead of colliding billiard balls, they examined a solitary electron in empty interstellar space.
"Suppose the electron is localized when we begin observing it. This means that we're pretty sure about its position in space. The laws of quantum mechanics prevent us from knowing it with absolute precision, but we can outline a small region where the electron is localized," says study co-author Andrey Lebedev from MIPT and ETH Zurich.
The physicist explains that the evolution of the electron state is governed by Schrödinger's equation. Although it makes no distinction between the future and the past, the region of space containing the electron will spread out very quickly. That is, the system tends to become more chaotic. The uncertainty of the electron's position is growing. This is analogous to the increasing disorder in a large-scale system—such as a billiard table—due to the second law of thermodynamics.
Physicists reverse time using quantum computer
The four stages of the actual experiment on a quantum computer mirror the stages of the thought experiment involving an electron in space and the imaginary analogy with billiard balls. Each of the three systems initially evolves from order …more.
"However, Schrödinger's equation is reversible," adds Valerii Vinokur, a co-author of the paper, from the Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. "Mathematically, it means that under a certain transformation called complex conjugation, the equation will describe a 'smeared' electron localizing back into a small region of space over the same time period." Although this phenomenon is not observed in nature, it could theoretically happen due to a random fluctuation in the cosmic microwave background permeating the universe.
The team set out to calculate the probability to observe an electron "smeared out" over a fraction of a second spontaneously localizing into its recent past. It turned out that even across the entire lifetime of the universe—13.7 billion years—observing 10 billion freshly localized electrons every second, the reverse evolution of the particle's state would only happen once. And even then, the electron would travel no more than a mere one ten-billionth of a second into the past.
Large-scale phenomena involving billiard balls and volcanoes obviously unfold on much greater timescales and feature an astounding number of electrons and other particles. This explains why we do not observe old people growing younger or an ink blot separating from the paper.
Reversing time on demand
The researchers then attempted to reverse time in a four-stage experiment. Instead of an electron, they observed the state of a quantum computer made of two and later three basic elements called superconducting qubits.
Stage 1: Order. Each qubit is initialized in the ground state, denoted as zero. This highly ordered configuration corresponds to an electron localized in a small region, or a rack of billiard balls before the break.
Stage 2: Degradation. The order is lost. Just like the electron is smeared out over an increasingly large region of space, or the rack is broken on the pool table, the state of the qubits becomes an ever more complex changing pattern of zeros and ones. This is achieved by briefly launching the evolution program on the quantum computer. Actually, a similar degradation would occur by itself due to interactions with the environment. However, the controlled program of autonomous evolution will enable the last stage of the experiment.
Stage 3: Time reversal. A special program modifies the state of the quantum computer in such a way that it would then evolve "backwards," from chaos toward order. This operation is akin to the random microwave background fluctuation in the case of the electron, but this time, it is deliberately induced. An obviously far-fetched analogy for the billiards example would be someone giving the table a perfectly calculated kick.
Stage 4: Regeneration. The evolution program from the second stage is launched again. Provided that the "kick" has been delivered successfully, the program does not result in more chaos but rather rewinds the state of the qubits back into the past, the way a smeared electron would be localized or the billiard balls would retrace their trajectories in reverse playback, eventually forming a triangle.
The researchers found that in 85 percent of the cases, the two-qubit quantum computer returned back into the initial state. When three qubits were involved, more errors happened, resulting in a roughly 50 percent success rate. According to the authors, these errors are due to imperfections in the actual quantum computer. As more sophisticated devices are designed, the error rate is expected to drop.
Interestingly, the time reversal algorithm itself could prove useful for making quantum computers more precise. "Our algorithm could be updated and used to test programs written for quantum computers and eliminate noise and errors," Lebedev explained.
Source
https://phys.org/news/2019-03-physicists-reverse-quantum.html
Islamic Leader Speaks About Mandela Effect Changing the Bible & Christians are Silent
"The following video shows an Islamic leader explaining the Mandela Effect and the Bible changes. He says that it is affecting all Holy Books, and that it won’t affect the Koran, as they have people who “memorize” their holy book. This leader is very aware of the Mandela Effect (although he calls it a “great deception”) and attributes it to a huge end times deception of satan (he calls them Shaitans). He says these Shaitans are going back in time and changing many things.
They even have “reciters” in their religion, that memorize their Holy Book.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Christian leaders were as aware or as bold in speaking the truth as this man? Or that we had “reciters”? Yet, what we see are Christian leaders denouncing the Mandela Effect as a tool of the devil, saying it’s a ‘psyop’ to dissuade confidence in the Bible.
Transription of Video One: Mandela Effect Alert! Happening All Around the World!
Satan(s) have been given permission to go between dimensions and altar time
The understanding of the last days and the concepts of the ‘dajjal’ (antichrist) is a great deceit. It is a tremendous deceit, beyond any deceit that can be imagined. It’s not translated as an antichrist because this is for all the religions around the world, are going to be cast into a tremendous difficulty.
And that difficulty is beyond comprehension of a type of Fitnah (terrible tribulation) that will allow that door to be opened and …..the folding of space and time….these days of deceit, the Shaitans (satans) …that permission is that they are already moving between these dimensions,
So great deceit is now moving on this earth… is altering the timeline and goes back and begins to manipulate …something will change in this dimension. They took iconic images, iconic movies, iconic sounds, everything that was a symbol of our existence on this material Dunyah (realm), and they begin to play with it.
So many people are beginning to [be] aware, particular movie titles have changed from what we understood the title was.
Their names have changed. This is a sign of a great deceit that begins to enter this Dunya. There are verses of the Bible , the Lord’s Prayer, forgive us our trespassings as we forgive those who trespass and come against us. Anybody who googles the Bible — it’s changed. It went from trespassing to debt.
Forgive us our debt, and we forgive our debtors, as if the bank wrote it.
There are verses now coming out, I think it is in Luke 19:27, that says if you don’t believe in me, bring him in front of me and slay him in front of me…
They go back and manipulate all the texts and manipulate everything in our Dunya (realm), so that to drive people to be crazy and mad because they don’t understand what is happening… The day has come…all holy books will be changed.
Verses and papers and books all around the world will change. There are four of you, and
if the Shaitans (satans) don’t want one of you, they go back in the timeline and take that person.
Then all of a sudden your picture shows there’s only three of you.
They took that problem away and now it doesn’t exist in this time. There are many difficulties coming that are beyond imagination.
We can’t understand the extent of what things are being manipulated. If we talk too much about it, people will think we are crazy. ..They are not seeking out the realities of what’s happening in this Dunya (realm)…If it wasn’t for us, the great deceit would fill the earth and the child of Shaitan is able to rein.
Everything on this earth will be flipped upside down.
Every day something will be different…Location, place and things–all of it will be under manipulation.
The original speech is given here:
Second video:Reality of Folding Time and Space, A Great Fitna is Opening on Earth
This is the original video from above and has better audio and more content:
Transcript:
8:15- What happens is when the Shaitans (satans) go back in 1940 and they alter something …and something in this life now changed…everything you watch, scary movies, Sci Fi movies, it’s in a thought in the brain that the _________created. These Sci Fi movies are trying to give us an understanding of what’s coming in this Dunya (realm).
All Holy Books will be changed. The Shaitans go back in time and begin to manipulate and they opened their book (Bible) and it’s changed! It’s because it’s not “guarded book”. Their TV’s not guarded.
When they go to make a change in the Koran,____________says “Impossible!” My reciters are guardians of the book. If you change a “y” the guardians of our book, they know! The paper may change, but the words will never change…
Everything on this world will be flipped upside down.
—
Apparently, this Islamic leader implies that the Koran is a guarded book, which is protected by “reciters”. That’s a very good idea! How are we “protecting” our holy book, the Bible? "
Source and Full Article
http://mandelabiblechanges.com/index.php/2019/03/22/islamic-leader-speaks-about-mandela-effect-changing-the-bible-christians-are-silent/
They even have “reciters” in their religion, that memorize their Holy Book.
Wouldn’t it be nice if Christian leaders were as aware or as bold in speaking the truth as this man? Or that we had “reciters”? Yet, what we see are Christian leaders denouncing the Mandela Effect as a tool of the devil, saying it’s a ‘psyop’ to dissuade confidence in the Bible.
Transription of Video One: Mandela Effect Alert! Happening All Around the World!
Satan(s) have been given permission to go between dimensions and altar time
The understanding of the last days and the concepts of the ‘dajjal’ (antichrist) is a great deceit. It is a tremendous deceit, beyond any deceit that can be imagined. It’s not translated as an antichrist because this is for all the religions around the world, are going to be cast into a tremendous difficulty.
And that difficulty is beyond comprehension of a type of Fitnah (terrible tribulation) that will allow that door to be opened and …..the folding of space and time….these days of deceit, the Shaitans (satans) …that permission is that they are already moving between these dimensions,
So great deceit is now moving on this earth… is altering the timeline and goes back and begins to manipulate …something will change in this dimension. They took iconic images, iconic movies, iconic sounds, everything that was a symbol of our existence on this material Dunyah (realm), and they begin to play with it.
So many people are beginning to [be] aware, particular movie titles have changed from what we understood the title was.
Their names have changed. This is a sign of a great deceit that begins to enter this Dunya. There are verses of the Bible , the Lord’s Prayer, forgive us our trespassings as we forgive those who trespass and come against us. Anybody who googles the Bible — it’s changed. It went from trespassing to debt.
Forgive us our debt, and we forgive our debtors, as if the bank wrote it.
There are verses now coming out, I think it is in Luke 19:27, that says if you don’t believe in me, bring him in front of me and slay him in front of me…
They go back and manipulate all the texts and manipulate everything in our Dunya (realm), so that to drive people to be crazy and mad because they don’t understand what is happening… The day has come…all holy books will be changed.
Verses and papers and books all around the world will change. There are four of you, and
if the Shaitans (satans) don’t want one of you, they go back in the timeline and take that person.
Then all of a sudden your picture shows there’s only three of you.
They took that problem away and now it doesn’t exist in this time. There are many difficulties coming that are beyond imagination.
We can’t understand the extent of what things are being manipulated. If we talk too much about it, people will think we are crazy. ..They are not seeking out the realities of what’s happening in this Dunya (realm)…If it wasn’t for us, the great deceit would fill the earth and the child of Shaitan is able to rein.
Everything on this earth will be flipped upside down.
Every day something will be different…Location, place and things–all of it will be under manipulation.
The original speech is given here:
Second video:Reality of Folding Time and Space, A Great Fitna is Opening on Earth
This is the original video from above and has better audio and more content:
Transcript:
8:15- What happens is when the Shaitans (satans) go back in 1940 and they alter something …and something in this life now changed…everything you watch, scary movies, Sci Fi movies, it’s in a thought in the brain that the _________created. These Sci Fi movies are trying to give us an understanding of what’s coming in this Dunya (realm).
All Holy Books will be changed. The Shaitans go back in time and begin to manipulate and they opened their book (Bible) and it’s changed! It’s because it’s not “guarded book”. Their TV’s not guarded.
When they go to make a change in the Koran,____________says “Impossible!” My reciters are guardians of the book. If you change a “y” the guardians of our book, they know! The paper may change, but the words will never change…
Everything on this world will be flipped upside down.
—
Apparently, this Islamic leader implies that the Koran is a guarded book, which is protected by “reciters”. That’s a very good idea! How are we “protecting” our holy book, the Bible? "
Source and Full Article
http://mandelabiblechanges.com/index.php/2019/03/22/islamic-leader-speaks-about-mandela-effect-changing-the-bible-christians-are-silent/
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
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