The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated

Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by wuch on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @02:24PM (#14554812)

There is running joke about general relativity and quantum mechanics being a demonstration of simulation hypothesis, i.e., floating point computations used to simulate our universe break down under very small and very large scales.

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Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by jfoutz on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:24PM (#14555331)

And mass slows down time because the load increases

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Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by jhurliman on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @05:11PM (#14556158)

Related to this, Second Life has a concept of time dilation which is the ratio of current simulator frame rate to ideal frame rate (30fps IIRC). As more avatars, scripts, and physically simulated objects were put in a simulator the time dilation increased.

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Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by JetSpiegel on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @06:43PM (#14556656)

Interesting, I first heard about this regarding EVE Online.

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Re:The Largest Virtual Universe Ever Simulated by mandude on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @03:16PM (#14555257)

It's funny because it's true.

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