a lot of people can train themselves for lucid dreaming.
look it up.

um... actually, knowledge for the sake of knowledge seems good enough to me.
I agree it sounds selfish while there are still people starving to death, but knowledge in itself is a worthy goal.

You are right.
But, the question is not if we are in a *correct* simulation, but whether we are in a simulation good enough to fool humanity.
For something like this, they would only have to worry about the relatively small number of people who are actually conducting experiments on quantum physics.
For the rest of us, solving for some "macroscopic" quantities such as thermodynamic quantities would be good enough, since we would simply ignore the noise term coming from their errors as being part of thermal noise anyway.

In any case, my feeling is their approach is wrong first of all because when we are trying to simulate the universe we are doing it differently.
Why would the transcedental geeks do it in a way we ourselves wouldn't aprove of?

You're right, but to be honest, all of physics is the same.
Theoreticians come up with a mathematical model to explain observations, those models make predictions about stuff that hasn't been observed yet, and experimentalists check those predictions.
If the experiments come out as the theoreticians predicted, we say the mathematical model is "reality".
However, there are clear examples where this method fails: the various competing models of exotic physics, that we can't experiment on, because the experiments are too expensive.

So we never prove that the mathematical model is the perfect description of the underlying reality, we just prove that it is undistinguishable, within experimental error, from the perfect description.

link to the 12 studies please.
so far my feeling is that you are knowingly lying, and the authors of those studies are knowignly lying.
the argument is that HFT unbalances the market, because a chosen few can intervene much faster than most. you did not bring a counterargument to this.

Most energy that's not coming from the star of your system will have very low density, low enough so that it's useless.
Unless reality decides to have fun, and the whole zeropoint energy idea turns out to work.

kids will have fun whenever the adults give them the attention they deserve. including when they will be forced to play with balloons filled with regular air.
please think before you teach your kids to be wasteful.

I have no respect for anyone who's business model is "there are a lot of suckers in the world". I know most rich people use this business model, but I am convinced that humanity as a whole (including them) suffers a lot because of these nearsighted selfish idiots.

mod parent up. while they seem kind of overenthusiastic, it's true that quantum teleportation is a lot more like the replicator in Star Trek than anything else.

you do realize that there are communities in Africa where you can take two random people, check how much their DNA differs, and you will find that that difference is "bigger" than the differences between most "Europeans" and "Asians", right?
the color of people's skin is related to the amount of sun their ancestors had to deal with. I'm not sure how long back in time, but probably a lot. the length of people's limbs and the thickness of their body has to do with the amount of heat their ancestors had to dissipate. that's about it.

what this means in practice is that if you take blueeyed whiteskinned northern people, and you put them on a tropical island, and you check again in N generations (I'm not sure how large N is, but it shouldn't be very large), then you will find black eyed people with darker skin, only because it's easier to live there with these properties. in fact, I don't think it would be very easy to convince blue eyed whiteskinned northern people to go live on a tropical island...

back to the issue of DNA differences: unless you have training in the area, don't try to draw conclusions, because these are complicated issues. for instance I read somewhere that when all you have to work with are bones, then you can say that two specimens are different species; but when you look at the DNA, you might say that they are indeed the same species. for instance pygmies are homo sapiens.

my advice to you is to either get a degree in the field, or stop believing what people said 100 years ago, when it was still acceptable to be a racist in many circles (thus the biased conclusions you've been reading).

true, not a significant fraction of c.
but take into account that relativistic effects are noticeable (on the scale of 100 years) for Mercury, which orbits between 0.3 and 0.4 AU from the Sun. also take into account that these are heavy objects, and we might find that a satellite moving between these two stars could be used to study relativistic effects. I'm not gonna try to compute anything, but relativistic effects are noticeable for GPS satellites, so what I said must make sense.

obviously, the interesting results would be found if the poor thing didn't burn first...

me too. books have to be opened this way too if you need to hold them in your hands for some reason.
all of this is valid if you insist to look at the front cover the right way while you open them. otherwise you can simply turn the cd case around, and do the mirror movements; and you can simply do a perfectly symmetrical movement with books.