http://www.techtimes.com/articles/152927/20160423/universe-probably-simulati on-neil-degrasse-tyson.htm
The headline is an attention grabber: Universe Is Probably A Simulation: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Tyson is a product of television's need to put a smiling PC face on science, and is almost as much of a mock-traditionalist (and pompous luddite wrt LENR) as is Michio Kaku and a few others. However, they know how to surf a few extreme notions, so long as they can find a niche which captures the imagination and is impossible to falsify. Tyson may have gotten his head out of his. err. blind spot, long enough to make an interesting call on the matrix theme which comes up here from time to time. In another part of the Universe, his doppelganger is probably smiling to a camera, playing up the cold fusion discovery. We need to get hold of that Sim code and reboot. BTW, here is a seriously pompous explanation of the Sim-concept from Bostrom, who has his head so far in the black hole that he fails to mention the movie, as if it were some kind of lowbrow pandering that doesn't really matter very much to geniuses in ivory towers. http://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html BTW - as to the Wachowskis - they were lucky with the Matrix, not good. The sequels were among the worst films in the history of Hollywood. but heck, I'd rather be lucky than good on most days. wouldn't you? Think: Tsutomu Yamaguchi. He was on a business trip to Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945. As he arrived, a bomb named "little boy" blew up a few miles away. He was shielded by the train. After spending a night in an air raid shelter, unhurt but shaken, Yamaguchi went home. To Nagasaki. He survived that one too. The original meme model for: "been there, done that." As for putting a pretty face on the less explosive science of LENR, I'll stick with Julian Schwinger or Brian Josephson if a prominent name just has to attach to every belief structure. instead of Luddite talking heads, pandering to publically funded constituencies in Big-Science. Hear, hear. More money for LHC! . but occasionally picking up on an outlier... for the PR effect. That's why we love out boob-tube.
