Re:1637 called, they want their idea back. (Score 1)

So but if the entire universe is a giant VR simulation inside a giant computer system, we could conceivably exploit bugs in the underlying simulation program. Maybe if we carry out a weird physics experiment (creating Higgs bosons in the LHC for example) could cause the simulator to bomb out with a division by zero exception or a segmentation fault. That would not be interesting however since we all would cease to exist at the same moment and there would be nobody to observe this fact. VMWare once had a bug that could possibly be exploited by a guest program to get access to the underlying host system. So why couldn't we do the same from our simulated universe: exploit a bug that could cause a buffer overflow so we can insert machine instructions in the memory of the simulating machine that eventually get executed. Finding out the instruction set of the simulating machine is left as an exercise to the reader.