A Minor League Baseball Game Just Gave Us Positive Proof That Reality is Just a Simulation
I've referenced Simulation Theory before. Most recently when it was revealed that a pair of novels from the late 1800s about a the adventures of a Little Baron Trump have come true before our eyes:
But just to explain the theory, let's ask Grok AI:
Simulation Theory posits that reality, as we perceive it, is a computer simulation, akin to a very advanced virtual reality. The idea, popularized by philosopher Nick Bostrom in his 2003 paper, hinges on three possibilities:
Advanced civilizations never reach a technological level capable of creating realistic simulations, perhaps due to self-destruction or other limits.
Advanced civilizations capable of creating simulations choose not to, for ethical, practical, or other reasons.
If advanced civilizations do create simulations, the odds are overwhelming that we are living in one, as a single advanced civilization could run countless simulated realities, vastly outnumbering "base" reality.
The reasoning follows that if simulations are possible and common, the probability of us being in the one "real" universe is vanishingly small—think one in billions. It draws on the idea that a sufficiently advanced technology could simulate consciousness and entire universes indistinguishable from reality to its inhabitants.
It's a controversial theory, to say the least. But there are those who think the physical laws of the universe are so finely tuned and biology is so complex that no natural process could've created them. And that due to the Law of Entropy, all matter should just be floating around in a soup of particles, not forming itself into organized, functioning systems. Personally, I chalk all this unlikeliness to the conscious design of an intelligent, omnipotent, divine creator. But that's just me. Some very smart people who invest a lot of time into thinking about such big things believe the universe is just a computer program and we're all just a bunch of 1s and 0s. The Sims, except we're programmed to think we're real.
And those people found a great piece of evidence their hypothesis is correct in a most unlikely place. Minor League Baseball:
In a Double-A game featuring the Portland Sea Dogs (Boston Red Sox) and Hartford Yard Goats (Colorado Rockies) something very rare happened, the same exact sequence of events during a singular inning.
In the top of the 4th inning with one out, Portland’s Abraham Liendo hits what would normally be a routine grounder to the third baseman only for it to ricochet off the fielder to the shortstop who guns down the runner for out number two.
Subsequently, in the bottom half of the inning with the EXACT same count, number of outs, pitch speed, and the uncanny statures of both pitchers and hitters, Hartford’s Dyan Jorge hits a routine grounder to Portland’s third baseman that ricochets off to the shortstop who throws out Jorge at first.
This feat is remarkable at so many levels and is definitely a rare sight to see.
"A rare sight" is hardly the term for it. Think about how often you see a batter thrown out 5-6-3. Even as a double play, it's practically unheard of. As a single out, it would have to involve either the 3rd basemen realizing he can't make the throw (a dive play in the hole) and flipping it to short, or a carom off his body like here. But if you told me that only happens once every five years in the Majors, I'd say your number sounds a little high to me. And on average, a Major League season consists of over 130,000 outs (2,429 games × 54 outs).
This happened. Then happened again in the same inning. With the same … well, everything. You read the text. I suppose if this is all just software, the glitch that exposes it would happen in baseball. Which is one of the great creations of the human mind, but still a really peculiar invention when it comes right down to it. There's always been something metaphysical about it. So why wouldn't the true nature of existence reveal itself in a Sea Dogs at Yard Goats game in April? And if this is a glitch in the Matrix, I'm taking the blue pill. I like my reality just the way it is. Bizarre and unexplainable.
