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Tuesday, July 3, 2007 12:00 AM

We are meant to be here

People are not the result of a cosmic accident, but of laws of the universe that grant our lives meaning and purpose, says physicist Paul Davies.
By Steve Paulson

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  • Tuesday, July 3, 2007 09:23 AM

    PROVE IT

    Davies' ideas have been floating around at least since William Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" mostly unchanged since that time. I find the idea that we're living in a virtual reality simulation especially annoying, because it's untestable and by definition, mysticism, not science. There is no feature of the observable universe that forces us to turn to, or even consider, the simulation hypothesis. It's an interesting conjecture, nothing more. And if I'm wrong, I invite Davies to propose an empirical test to prove it.

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