By now, most people have heard of the "simulation theory" that we live in an advanced virtual world, but one theoretical physicist now says he has a way to test it, and that is by crowd funding.
The theory behind his simulation test is based on the idea that a "simulated universe would contain a lot of information bits everywhere" and that those bits would present the code.
The simulation hypothesis will be proved by detecting these information bits.
The physicist believes that information bits have a small mass and that mass can be expressed as energy or information. One would be able to detect the bits themselves if they could find the mass of them.
The M/E/I theory suggests that information could be a fifth form of matter in the universe. The experiment makes sense even though it is complicated.
Eliminating the information contained in elementary particles is part of the experiment.
In English, Vopson wants to demonstrate that information bits exist by the particles that contain them to their opposites.
To pull it off, the physicist is looking to "build a workbench positron-electron annihilation system" containing "custom-built components that will allow detection of the two types of light at the same time."
The campaign has only raised about $1,000 of its $219,000 goal so far.
It's great that someone is going to put the "alien sim" theory to the test, but there's no idea what will happen.
Physicist says there is a small chance you will wake up on Mars tomorrow.
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