Our universe is most likely a computer simulation

[daaron]

130. Wrench: wave-particle duality.

Both the digital and the analog descriptions of quantum particle properties and behavior are true at the same time. This is true, in part, because the field of physics compromises with linguistics and mathematics to aid our primitive brains in understanding the properties and behavior reproducible in our shared experience of reality. It's difficult, therefore, to say that any macroscopic description of microscopic physics is real, "in a real sense." We can say with certainty that the theory describes the phenomenon well, but what that means about "reality" is a job most theoretical physicists leave to philosophers, and Dr. Paul Davies.

Y'know, at least until after the ToE, when, one would hope, we'd have the correct perspective from which to interpret QM and GR (having united at last the micro- and the macro-theories in one indelible, hopefully elegant, model).

Matrix-like speculation is unending fun - and I'm game - but on the scientific side of life, I for one will wait for the peer-reviewed Big ToE before I accept any one interpretation: Standard, Multiverse, Holist, whatever. As long as it correctly unites QM and GR, I'm all in.