2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation?
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What may have started as science fiction – that perhaps the universe as we know it is a computer simulation – has become a serious line of inquiry among physicists, astrophysicists, and philosophers.
In this podcast, listen in as a panel of experts discuss this theory, including David Chalmers, professor of philosophy at NYU, Zohreh Davoudi, theoretical physicist at MIT, James Gates, theoretical physicist at the University of Maryland, Lisa Randall, theoretical physicist at Harvard, and Max Tegmark, cosmologist from MIT. Host and moderator Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose Director of the Hayden Planetarium leads this lively discussion about the merits and shortcomings of this provocative and revolutionary idea.
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