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> That year — 2014 — three young quantum gravity researchers came to an astonishing realization. They were working in physicists’ theoretical playground of choice: a toy universe called “anti-de Sitter space” that works like a hologram.

Wow, so we truly are in a simulation

Edit: Sorry, I thought this was a funny play on ambiguous words, but apparently HN disagrees!



You will often get downvoted for humor on HN. On the other hand, I have at times gotten double digits worth of karma for a humorous post. I guess you have to appeal to a certain type of person.


Yeah, I've definitely noticed. Guess I can't help taking a gamble on occasion.

On this particular occasion, I truly couldn't tell if my joke was a whoosh, or just not funny! I made myself laugh, but that's not difficult.


No, not that we know.




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