moominmuppet

I'm deeply amused at how much aesthetics governs even the hard sciences. Here the author argues that infinite worlds make no sense because it would mean that we are likely a virtual simulation. Similarly, physicists argue that FTL travel is impossible because is would violate causality (and then assume that this was by nature impossible). These are solely aesthetic judgments with no basis in anything beyond what the author would find most acceptable and elegant and yet few physicists ever recognize this fact.

Personally, I rather like the idea of a universe w/o rigid causality and don't mind the idea of being part of a sim (at least it definitely means that we are not the only sentient beings in existence).