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Many Astronomers, Physicists and Philosophers are beginning to suspect that we live in a Simulation... an Extremely good one. Their thinking and reasons are given and the author has found many corroborating anomalies to support their theory that Earth may seriously be a Simulation. Among the anomalies are time-honored constants in Math and Physics that are changing -- and that cannot be if we are NOT a Simulation! It is however what a simulation does. Astronomers have also found several irregularities in the Universe that support the probability, including their discovery that there is noise coming from the edge of the universe! Examples of simulations running poorly, how they might be corrected, and how to program one (at a high level) are offered. The author also shows pix of the "spinning wheels" over Australia that were photographed by satellite just before bad weather socked in. The issue of: Can Science replicate true consciousness in a Cognitive Computer aka Robot is seriously looked at and what it would take to make that a reality appears to be hundreds of years away... if achievable at all. The latest android from Japan (Geminoid F) is shown and reviewed, as well as the latest D-Wave 3 -- a quantum computer. Whether we are in a Simulation or not, the book makes fascinating reading -- real brain candy -- but written and illustrated at the layman level.
The Simulation Hypothesis, by best-selling author, renowned MIT computer scientist and Silicon Valley video game designer Rizwan Virk, is the first serious book to explain one of the most daring and consequential theories of our time. Riz is the Executive Director of Play Labs @ MIT, a video game startup incubator at the MIT Game Lab. Drawing from research and concepts from computer science, artificial intelligence, video games, quantum physics, and referencing both speculative fiction and ancient eastern spiritual texts, Virk shows how all of these traditions come together to point to the idea that we may be inside a simulated reality like the Matrix. The Simulation Hypothesis is the idea that our physical reality, far from being a solid physical universe, is part of an increasingly sophisticated video game-like simulation, where we all have multiple lives, consisting of pixels with its own internal clock run by some giant Artificial Intelligence. Simulation theory explains some of the biggest mysteries of quantum and relativistic physics, such as quantum indeterminacy, parallel universes, and the integral nature of the speed of light. Recently, the idea that we may be living in a giant video game has received a lot of attention: “There’s a one in a billion chance we are not living in a simulation” -Elon Musk “I find it hard to argue we are not in a simulation.” -Neil deGrasse Tyson “We are living in computer generated reality.” -Philip K. Dick Video game technology has developed from basic arcade and text adventures to MMORPGs. Video game designer Riz Virk shows how these games may continue to evolve in the future, including virtual reality, augmented reality, Artificial Intelligence, and quantum computing. This book shows how this evolution could lead us to the point of being able to develop all encompassing virtual worlds like the Oasis in Ready Player One, or the simulated reality in the Matrix. While the idea sounds like science fiction, many scientists, engineers, and professors have given the Simulation Hypothesis serious consideration. Futurist Ray Kurzweil has popularized the idea of downloading our consciousness into a silicon based device, which would mean we are just digital information after all. Some, like Oxford lecturer Nick Bostrom, goes further and thinks we may in fact be artificially intelligent consciousness inside such a simulation already! But the Simulation Hypothesis is not just a modern idea. Philosophers like Plato have been telling us that we live in a “cave” and can only see shadows of the real world. Mystics of all traditions have long contended that we are living in some kind of “illusion “and that there are other realities which we can access with our minds. While even Judeo-Christian traditions have this idea, Eastern traditions like Buddhism and Hinduism make this idea part of their core tradition — that we are inside a dream world (“Maya” or illusion, or Vishnu’s Dream), and we have “multiple lives” playing different characters when one dies, continuing to gain experience and “level up” after completing certain challenges. Sounds a lot like a video game! Whether you are a computer scientist, a fan of science fiction like the Matrix movies, a video game enthusiast, or a spiritual seeker, The Simulation Hypothesis touches on all these areas, and you will never look at the world the same way again!
One of the most active areas in atomic, molecular and optical physics is the use of ultracold atomic gases in optical lattices to simulate the behaviour of electrons in condensed matter systems. The larger mass, longer length scale, and tuneable interactions in these systems allow the dynamics of atoms moving in these systems to be followed in real time, and resonant light scattering by the atoms allows this motion to be probed on a microscopic scale using site-resolved imaging. This book reviews the physics of Hubbard-type models for both bosons and fermions in an optical lattice, which give rise to a rich variety of insulating and conducting phases depending on the lattice properties and interparticle interactions. It also discusses the effect of disorder on the transport of atoms in these models, and the recently discovered phenomenon of many-body localization. It presents several examples of experiments using both density and momentum imaging and quantum gas microscopy to study the motion of atoms in optical lattices. These illustrate the power and flexibility of ultracold-lattice analogues for exploring exotic states of matter at an unprecedented level of precision.
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!
An Introduction to Quantum Monte Carlo Methods by Tao Pang Pdf
Monte Carlo methods have been very prominent in computer simulation of various systems in physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science. This book focuses on the discussion and path-integral quantum Monte Carlo methods in many-body physics and provides a concise but complete introduction to the Metropolis algorithm and its applications in these two techniques. To explore the schemes in clarity, several quantum many-body systems are analysed and studied in detail. The book includes exercises to help digest the materials covered. It can be used as a tutorial to learn the discussion and path-integral Monte Carlo or a recipe for developing new research in the reader's own area. Two complete Java programs, one for the discussion Monte Carlo of 4^He clusters on a graphite surface and the other for the path-integral Monte Carlo of cold atoms in a potential trap, are ready for download and adoption.
Body of Knowledge for Modeling and Simulation by Tuncer Ören,Bernard P. Zeigler,Andreas Tolk Pdf
Commissioned by the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCS), this needed, useful new ‘Body of Knowledge’ (BoK) collects and organizes the common understanding of a wide collection of professionals and professional associations. Modeling and simulation (M&S) is a ubiquitous discipline that lays the computational foundation for real and virtual experimentation, clearly stating boundaries—and interactions—of systems, data, and representations. The field is well known, too, for its training support via simulations and simulators. Indeed, with computers increasingly influencing the activities of today’s world, M&S is the third pillar of scientific understanding, taking its place along with theory building and empirical observation. This valuable new handbook provides intellectual support for all disciplines in analysis, design and optimization. It contributes increasingly to the growing number of computational disciplines, addressing the broad variety of contributing as well as supported disciplines and application domains. Further, each of its sections provide numerous references for further information. Highly comprehensive, the BoK represents many viewpoints and facets, captured under such topics as: Mathematical and Systems Theory Foundations Simulation Formalisms and Paradigms Synergies with Systems Engineering and Artificial Intelligence Multidisciplinary Challenges Ethics and Philosophy Historical Perspectives Examining theoretical as well as practical challenges, this unique volume addresses the many facets of M&S for scholars, students, and practitioners. As such, it affords readers from all science, engineering, and arts disciplines a comprehensive and concise representation of concepts, terms, and activities needed to explain the M&S discipline. Tuncer Ören is Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. Bernard Zeigler is Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. Andreas Tolk is Chief Scientist at The MITRE Corporation. All three editors are long-time members and Fellows of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International. Under the leadership of three SCS Fellows, Dr. Ören, University of Ottawa, Dr. Zeigler, The University of Arizona, and Dr. Tolk, The MITRE Corporation, more than 50 international scholars from 15 countries provided insights and experience to compile this initial M&S Body of Knowledge.
Machine Learning with Quantum Computers by Maria Schuld,Francesco Petruccione Pdf
This book offers an introduction into quantum machine learning research, covering approaches that range from "near-term" to fault-tolerant quantum machine learning algorithms, and from theoretical to practical techniques that help us understand how quantum computers can learn from data. Among the topics discussed are parameterized quantum circuits, hybrid optimization, data encoding, quantum feature maps and kernel methods, quantum learning theory, as well as quantum neural networks. The book aims at an audience of computer scientists and physicists at the graduate level onwards. The second edition extends the material beyond supervised learning and puts a special focus on the developments in near-term quantum machine learning seen over the past few years.
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms by Laith Abualigah Pdf
Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms: Optimizers, Analysis, and Applications presents the most recent optimization algorithms and their applications across a wide range of scientific and engineering research fields. Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms have become indispensable tools, with applications in data analysis, text mining, classification problems, computer vision, image analysis, pattern recognition, medicine, and many others. Most complex systems problems involve a continuous flow of data that makes it impossible to manage and analyze manually. The outcome depends on the processing of high-dimensional data, most of it irregular and unordered, present in various forms such as text, images, videos, audio, and graphics. The authors of Meta-Heuristic Optimization Algorithms provide readers with a comprehensive overview of eighteen optimization algorithms to address this complex data, including Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm, Arithmetic Optimization Algorithm, Whale Optimization Algorithm, and Marine Predators Algorithm, along with new and emerging methods such as Aquila Optimizer, Quantum Approximate Optimization Algorithm, Manta-Ray Foraging Optimization Algorithm, and Gradient Based Optimizer, among others. Each chapter includes an introduction to the modeling concepts used to create the algorithm, followed by the mathematical and procedural structure of the algorithm, associated pseudocode, and real-world case studies to demonstrate how each algorithm can be applied to a variety of scientific and engineering solutions. World-renowned researchers and practitioners in Metaheuristics present the procedures and pseudocode for creating a wide range of optimization algorithms Helps readers formulate and design the best optimization algorithms for their research goals through case studies in a variety of real-world applications Helps readers understand the links between Metaheuristic algorithms and their application in Computational Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning problems
Virtual Earth Graduate is unique. What if many things you think you know about Physics, Earth History and Religion are false? What if this is not our planet and we're not here alone? Are there hybrids here with us? Is Man being visited by 3D Extraterrestrial intelligences? Is someone on the Moon? What would have to be true about planet Earth for it to look the way it does? Who built all the monolithic walls, monuments and buildings that Man cannot even duplicate today? What are the chances that Earth is a Simulation as current Physics proposes? While not 100% conclusive, the evidence is tantalizing. In short... Are you really living on the planet you think you are? These and more issues are examined in this book and will enlighten the reader - probably for the first time in years. If you have ever wondered about the Origin of Man, the nature of UFOs, the Apollo Moon Mission and the possibility of intelligence on Mars, Creation versus Evolution, and why nothing certain is known about Man's history backwards of AD 900, then this book is for you. The author has done over 50 years of research into these topics, closely examining Earth History, Quantum Physics, Genetics, and several Religions and more, and has discovered the fascinating answers to what Earth is, what Man really is, why there are sociopaths, why the constants in Science are changing, and what we are doing here on Earth. He does not pretend to have all the answers but those he does have form a coherent and unexpected picture of Man and Earth, in effect connecting almost all the dots. The purpose of this book is to wake up to Man's true nature and divine potential, the real nature of Earth, Moon and Mars, who is here with us, and why we are here so that the new understanding will serve as enough Light to get souls out of here - as Earth Graduates. The book is not a religious book; it just provides a review of Man and his world as catalyst, examining false beliefs, disinformation, assumptions and attachments that bind souls to the planet... and in the last few chapters, it provides suggestions for improving one's life, relationships, and above all - the Light (higher consciousness) to get out of here and move on to something more dynamic in the Multiverse we all inhabit. Man must start to think outside the box that was created for him by those who want to be Lords over the Sheep. This book serves to break that entrapment. At the very least, it is also "brain candy," something to contemplate -- take what you can accept and put the rest on the shelf. The book is not meant to be blindly believed, but it will provide hours of things to think about -- and the footnotes for research if you are so inclined. Be sure to read the back cover for other authors' endorsements and a list of what's inside. The Intro also says what is where in the book. The book just went through a major 70-page update (Chapter 4 and Appendix A) in September 2014 and now has the information on UFOs, Moon, and Mars that was kept out of the first published version.
Quantum Simulations with Photons and Polaritons by Dimitris G. Angelakis Pdf
This book reviews progress towards quantum simulators based on photonic and hybrid light-matter systems, covering theoretical proposals and recent experimental work. Quantum simulators are specially designed quantum computers. Their main aim is to simulate and understand complex and inaccessible quantum many-body phenomena found or predicted in condensed matter physics, materials science and exotic quantum field theories. Applications will include the engineering of smart materials, robust optical or electronic circuits, deciphering quantum chemistry and even the design of drugs. Technological developments in the fields of interfacing light and matter, especially in many-body quantum optics, have motivated recent proposals for quantum simulators based on strongly correlated photons and polaritons generated in hybrid light-matter systems. The latter have complementary strengths to cold atom and ion based simulators and they can probe for example out of equilibrium phenomena in a natural driven-dissipative setting. This book covers some of the most important works in this area reviewing the proposal for Mott transitions and Luttinger liquid physics with light, to simulating interacting relativistic theories, topological insulators and gauge field physics. The stage of the field now is at a point where on top of the numerous theory proposals; experiments are also reported. Connecting to the theory proposals presented in the chapters, the main experimental quantum technology platforms developed from groups worldwide to realize photonic and polaritonic simulators in the laboratory are also discussed. These include coupled microwave resonator arrays in superconducting circuits, semiconductor based polariton systems, and integrated quantum photonic chips. This is the first book dedicated to photonic approaches to quantum simulation, reviewing the fundamentals for the researcher new to the field, and providing a complete reference for the graduate student starting or already undergoing PhD studies in this area.
The Science of Middle-earth by Roland Lehoucq,Loic Mangin,Jean-Sebastien Steyer Pdf
The surprising and illuminating look at how Tolkien's love of science and natural history shaped the creation of his Middle Earth, from its flora and fauna to its landscapes. The world J.R.R. Tolkien created is one of the most beloved in all of literature, and continues to capture hearts and imaginations around the world. From Oxford to ComiCon, the Middle Earth is analyzed and interpreted through a multitude of perspectives. But one essential facet of Tolkien and his Middle Earth has been overlooked: science. This great writer, creator of worlds and unforgettable character, and inventor of language was also a scientific autodidact, with an innate interest and grasp of botany, paleontologist and geologist, with additional passions for archeology and chemistry. Tolkien was an acute observer of flora and fauna and mined the minds of his scientific friends about ocean currents and volcanoes. It is these layers science that give his imaginary universe—and the creatures and characters that inhabit it—such concreteness. Within this gorgeously illustrated edition, a range of scientists—from astrophysicists to physicians, botanists to volcanologists—explore Tolkien’s novels, poems, and letters to reveal their fascinating scientific roots. A rewarding combination of literary exploration and scientific discovery, The Science of Middle Earth reveals the hidden meaning of the Ring’s corruption, why Hobbits have big feet, the origins of the Dwarves, the animals which inspired the dragons, and even whether or not an Ent is possible. Enhanced by superb original drawings, this transportive work will delight both Tolkien fans and science lovers and inspire us to view both Middle Earth—and our own world—with fresh eyes.
This book explores the most extreme questions through science. Questions such as is there life after death? Are we living inside a gigantic computer simulation? Is reality really what it seems? Is immortality a possibility? Can we really cure cancer?This book brings you through a quick and short journey into quantum mechanics, the laws of physics, medical breakthroughs including real life cases of synthetic life created in science laboratories, people who suffered through illness and gain special abilities upon recovery, and more.You will never see the world the same again.
