Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being reborn (2020)

Re:Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being re... by thaumasiotes on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:07PM (#35518999)

> it's fringe because it's almost certainly nonfalsifiable

That can't be true; those are two completely unrelated concepts. Compare "we're living in a simulation", which became mainstream despite the fact that (1) it is even more unfalsifiable than this is; and (2) it is identical in every way to the old, no-longer-interesting concept of "you are a brain in a jar".

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Re:Nobel Prize winner: The universe keeps dying and being re... by freetime2 on Monday April 10, 2023 @08:50PM (#35519283)

I would consider “we’re living in a simulation” to be fringe. And that anyone who claims with any certainty that we are living in a simulation is a crackpot.

Speculating that we might be living in a simulation is of course all in good fun.

An idea being popular does not mean it is not fringe. Otherwise any sci-fi trope from the Matrix or Interstellar could be called “mainstream”. A large number of people also need to believe it is true with a high degree of conviction.

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