The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, Quantum Computing, The Simulation Hypothesis and the Mandela Effect
The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, Quantum Computing, The Simulation Hypothesis and the Mandela Effect book cover

The Simulated Multiverse: An MIT Computer Scientist Explores Parallel Universes, Quantum Computing, The Simulation Hypothesis and the Mandela Effect

Paperback – October 13, 2021

Price
$14.95
Format
Paperback
Pages
353
Publisher
Bayview Books
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1954872004
Dimensions
6 x 0.89 x 9 inches
Weight
1.14 pounds

Description

"MIT Scientist's Simulation Hypothesis Makes Compelling Case for the Matrix" --TheNextWeb"How am I unreal? In The Simulated Multiverse , Riz Virk counts the ways. So many ways we might all live in one (or more) simulated worlds. Palpable 'reality' may be as delusional as our old notion that the heavens revolved around Earth. And just like Galileo did then, Virk may help open our eyes to a greater (if humbling) cosmology." --David Brin, author of EXISTENCE, The Postman and EARTH."Virk … makes a cogent, clear-eyed guide to the head-spinning science of parallel universes, quantum indeterminacy, and the possibility―terrifying or relieving―that our perceived reality is in fact part of a great simulation." --Publishers Weekly A graduate of MIT and Stanford, Rizwan Virk is a successful entrepreneur, video game pioneer, film producer, venture capitalist, computer scientist and bestselling author of The Simulation Hypothesis , Startup Myths&Models: What You Won't Learn in Business School , Treasure Hunt and Zen Entrepreneurship . Riz's video games, including Tap Fish and Penny Dreadful: Demimonde, have been played by millions. He s the founder of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game accelerator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and is an investor in many successful startups.

Features & Highlights

  • Do multiple versions of ourselves exist in parallel universes living out their lives in different timelines?In this follow up to his bestseller, The Simulation Hypothesis, MIT Computer Scientist and Silicon Valley Game Pioneer Rizwan Virk explores these topics from a new lens: that of simulation theory. If we are living in a digital universe, then many of the complexities and baffling characteristics of our reality start to make more sense. Quantum computing lets us simulate complex phenomena in parallel, allowing the simulation to explore many realities at once to find the most "optimum" path forward. Could this explain not only the enigmatic Mandela Effect but provide us with a new understanding of time and space? Bringing his unique trademark style of combining video games, computer science, quantum physics and computing with lots of philosophy and science fiction, Virk gives us a new way to think about not just our universe, but all possible realities!

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Powerful synthesizing!

Very few people in my immediate "real" life know how to connect the dots with data, numbers, words, music, movies and other seemingly disparate patterns of information to make sense of the "reality" we live in. Riz Virk sees the connections. He knows how to connect the dots and does it well through written words. Thank you for sharing this book to the world. It is hard to fathom with our dense, reduced brains, the gorgeous technologies we live in and take for granted, much less realize that the choices we choose splinter off into new directions. What if a critical mass of people in this instance chose to open their minds and hearts and chose love, rather than war and money? That is the instance I am trying to get to.
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Highly Anticipated

Another highly anticipated book from my favorite book author Riz Virk. This is addition of his previous book, The Simulation Hypothesis, which I also loved to read!
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