306. Stephon Alexander — Fear of a Black Universe: An Outsider’s Guide to the Future of Physics
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Design Science Cosmological Constant Problem
In a chapter of his new book, John Lanier and I play with the idea that aliens are building virtual reality video games. The energy being consumed to motor that kind of virtual reality would take a huge amount of energy, right? This is like the attempts to detect a Dyson sphere around a star. That would be evidence of civilization instead of just looking for radio signals coming in. And so our game was to say, oh, it's being used. That's the power supply for the video games of the advanced realization. So it was a thought experiment. But the part of that of that chapter for example is to show that the whole point of developing strong theory is that sometimes you
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