Numerous reputable news sites and media personalities have spent the past couple of weeksallegingthat the current year is 2022.
How can they be so sure?
Here at Neural we believe in science.
And the presence of evidence isnt necessarily evidence that were present.
Thats why were not willing to concede that its 2022 yet.
What if the world really did end on 21 December 2012?
No thanks
The first challenge we need to overcome is reality.
Or, perhaps more believably, a computer simulation.
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Per his2003 paper:
At least one of the following propositions is true:
But thats too easy.
CTRL+ALT+DEL and restart the program, amirite?
Quantum echoes
The most widely accepted grand theory on our existence is the Big Bang theory.
For whatever reason, about 14 billion years ago the universe exploded into existence from a single point.
When we think of an explosion we tend to imagine something out of a Michael Bay film.
But the Big Bang was incomprehensibly big.
Thats a lot of boom.
Scientists believe theyve witnessed quantum echoes of the Big Bang by observing fluctuations in quantum fields.
Per a 2015 research paper byBlasco et al.
Surprisingly this intuition is wrong.
Arguably, however, everything is happening to everything all the time.
Scientists believe the universe isexpanding at an increasing rateas as result of the Big Bang.
And that means discrete chunks of spacetime would be either tearing, displacing, or stretching.
Fade to black?
But thats still not very satisfying.
What if were able to make observations despite the fact that we no longer exist?
Remember the above line about spacetime being malleable?
Heres what NASAhad to sayabout that:
News flash: the world didnt end on Dec. 21, 2012.
Youve probably already figured that out for yourself.
Interesting.NASAclaims the world didnt end but offers only anecdotal evidence.
That sounds pretty suspicious.
Once again, at Neural were erring on the side of due diligence and Occams Razor.
