In the Matrix? Cosmologist Explains How Humans Could Be Living in a Simulated Universe Beyond Perception

In the Matrix? Cosmologist Explains How Humans Could Be Living in a Simulated Universe Beyond Perception
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As a cosmologist, I often carry around a universe or two in my pocket. Not entire, infinitely large universes, but maybe a few billion light years or so across. Enough to be interesting.

Of course, these are not “real” universes; rather they are universes I have simulated on a computer.