Thinking on Sunday: Is The Universe a Simulation?

After trying to convince you that this could well be the case we will look at the metaphysical arguments of space, time and matter going right back to Greek & Indian philosophy, about what they thought our wonderful Universe really is. We will touch on ideas of Parmenides, Plato, Kant, Xeno, Pythagoras and others to find out what ancient man was thinking. This is important because it shapes our thinking right through to the present day.

New knowledge, discovered in the last 30 years or so will be introduced that explains why they had so much difficulty and why they often came to dead ends that resorted in saying “it must be God” or “we can never know”. I’m going to try hard to convince you that neither of those is true. And that the Universe is indeed comprehendible.

Change in the physics community is afoot because the partially successful Standard Model has gone almost as far is it can and their are still many questions to be answered, In the second part we will look at some directions physics is going, with regard to black holes, holographic theories, quantum theories of gravity, information theory in physics, String Theory and more.

This talk should be very interesting to those who have been dissatisfied with the answers our society has provided so far.