Peggy Whitson

Life in zero gravity is hard to simulate. We practice on the ground what we call 'the day in the life' simulations, but it's just practicing some of the tests. It can't prepare you for the fact that all of your tools float if you don't pay attention to where they are! If you don't Velcro things down, they're gonna float away.

American Astronaut

Rick Tumlinson

We often mistake the artificial chemical and psychological thrill of fake edges for the real. In fact we often seek them out as a substitute for the reality of change, growth and exploration. Our minds and bodies help us in this, as they react much the same to this simulations as to the real world.

American Businessman

J. G. Ballard

I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

British Author

David Deutsch

The most important application of quantum computing in the future is likely to be a computer simulation of quantum systems, because that's an application where we know for sure that quantum systems in general cannot be efficiently simulated on a classical computer.

Scientist

Jane McGonigal

I'm not a fan of simulations. Where, 'Oh, we'll go play a simulation of world peace and figure out how to make peace' and then somehow magically that will get translated into the real world. No, that's not the kind of games that I make.

American Designer

Gerald Edelman

The computer is not, in our opinion, a good model of the mind, but it is as the trumpet is to the orchestra - you really need it. And so, we have very massive simulations in computers because the problem is, of course, very complex.

American Scientist

Howard Rheingold

A forecasting game is a kind of simulation, a kind of scenario, a kind of teleconference, a kind of artifact from the future - and more - that enlists the participants as 'first-person forecasters.

American Critic

Nicholas Negroponte

Learning by doing, peer-to-peer teaching, and computer simulation are all part of the same equation.

John Lydon

Music is a simulation of something, but language is the greatest thing we possess.

English Musician

James Maddison

Being booked for simulation is never good.

English Athlete

Simulations are often used to visualize how real situations would occur.

Visualization Aid

Simulations allow practice without real-world risks or consequences.

Practice Scenarios

High-quality simulations can feel almost identical to the real thing.

Realistic Feel

In computing, simulations are used to solve problems by testing different scenarios.

Problem Solving

Computing simulations can predict outcomes based on certain variables.

Predict Outcomes

Simulations can conduct experiments that would be impossible or impractical in reality.

Virtual Experiments

Simulations can be purposely misleading, feigning conditions or emotions that are not genuine.

Deception Tool

People might simulate emotions or situations to see how others react.

Gauge Reactions

 Similarly, a digital wind tunnel with digital wind flowing from right to left -- not that remarkable in a sense; we didn't invent the mathematics. But if you displayed that on a CRT or flat panel display, it would be meaningless to hold up an arbitrary object, a real world object in that. Here, the real world merges with the simulation.

Pointing to the future...

 So in our simulations, we pretend a black hole looks like astronomical non-black hole objects, as well as everyday images like the elephant in the center of our galaxy. When the results of our algorithms on the bottom look very similar to the simulation's truth image on top, then we can start to become more confident in our algorithms.

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 fundamental truths that drive the universe it's like a deep curiosity about what this universe is why we're here simulation why not you know we don't have time to go into that but i mean it's you're just deeply curious about what this is for what this is this whole thing yes i mean i think the why the why

Elon Musk talks Twitter,...

 graduate students to do sophisticated simulations the meat of what we have been working on this what most of the team's been working on is really the interactive platform our mission is a free world-class education for anyone anywhere and we think that doesn't happen unless you get deep practice you

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 how does dark energy affect the universe at the largest scales? Depending on how strong it is, maybe structure forms faster or slower. Well, the problem with the large-scale structure of the universe is that it's horribly complicated. Here is a computer simulation. And we need a way to simplify it.

What we can learn from...

 I hear it operating. I probably smell it operating." But in between that we're going to do a simulation. Babbage himself wrote, he said, as soon as the analytical engine exists, it will surely guide the future course of science. Of course, he never built it, because he was always fiddling

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 easier to create a simulation than it is to create a real universe I mean how you going to create a real universe so if you wait long enough they're going to be many many more simulated universes and there are real ones so any sentient being if they're rational would think

Understanding Simulated...

 In one survey, about 90% of respondents said that it's okay to flip the switch, letting one worker die to save five, and other studies, including a virtual reality simulation of the dilemma, have found similar results.

Would you sacrifice one...

 and how those constraints could lead to detectable signs in the world. So where might we look for those glitches? One idea is that as a simulation runs, it might accumulate errors over time. To correct for these errors

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 And the important thing to remember is that this simulation is a good one. It's believable, it's tactile. You can reach out -- things are solid. You can move objects from one area to another. You can feel your body.