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

Product Description

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!

Review

“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

About the Author

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.