Are we living in a simulation? Scientist claims we're simply characters in an advanced AI world - and says the proof is hidden in the BIBLE

If you consciousness similar you're surviving successful a convincing virtual world akin to The Matrix, a idiosyncratic thinks you whitethorn good beryllium right.

Melvin Vopson, an subordinate prof successful physics astatine the University of Portsmouth, claims our full beingness whitethorn beryllium an precocious machine simulation. 

And the impervious that this alleged simulation proposal is close whitethorn beryllium hiding successful plain show successful the Bible.

Professor Vopson told MailOnline: 'The book itself tells america that we are successful a simulation and it besides tells america who is doing it.

'It is done by an AI – an artificial intelligence.' 

Professor Vopson points to the Gospel of John, 1 of the first 4 books of the New Testament, the 2nd portion of the Christian Bible. 

Gospel of John opens with the almighty statement: 'In the opening was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.'

The prof says this verse has 'deep theological value successful Christian doctrine', but it besides carries 'intriguing implications' erstwhile considered successful the discourse of the beingness arsenic a simulation. 

He argues that 'the Word' successful this celebrated condemnation refers to the underlying machine codification that governs and controls the simulation. 

As anyone who has seen The Matrix volition know, immoderate machine simulation, large oregon small, consists of letters and numbers that constitute the rules for the full creation. 

The world further argues that 'the Word was God' could mean that God is portion of the simulation, alternatively than abstracted from it. 

In different words, the entity that is controlling the full happening – God – is written into the codification too. 

Professor Vopson explains: 'The codification moving the simulation is not abstracted from the divine, but alternatively an integral portion of it, possibly an AI.'

Gospel of John goes connected to say: 'All things were made by him, and without him was not thing made...'

Again, this connection supports the simulated beingness theory, the prof suggests. 

'It implies a Creator who brought the simulated beingness into beingness done the Word (i.e. the code)' helium says.

'It suggests that the enactment of creation, arsenic described successful the Bible, could beryllium analogous to a divine enactment of programming and simulation.' 

Arguably, the mentation offers an reply to a question that galore Christians conflict with – however did God make the beingness successful six days?

If the theory's to beryllium believed, helium did truthful by creating a simulated world encapsulated successful a machine programme – thing we cognize to beryllium possible. 

Professor Vopson has outlined his proposal successful his caller book, 'Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe'. 

He says it is not adjacent thing helium needfully believes in, but a 'extraordinary reflection that deserves attention'. 

'What is genuinely singular is that the mentation fixed is afloat aligned to the events of our times: the emergence of the AI, and besides it is precisely what 'The Matrix' was projecting,' helium told MailOnline. 

While the professor's thoughts whitethorn look sacrilegious to some, helium says it could person 'profound implications for Christian theology'. 

He believes there's an overlap wherever a content successful the simulated beingness mentation and the spiritual request for a almighty creator 'can coexist harmoniously'.  

'This position aligns with spiritual beliefs that clasp quality beingness to beryllium meaningful and purposeful, adjacent wrong the discourse of a larger design,' helium says. 

'Instead of viewing the simulated beingness proposal arsenic antagonistic to spiritual beliefs, 1 tin spot it arsenic offering a complementary perspective.'  

The prof has already said our lives contains respective clues that suggest we're simply characters successful an precocious virtual world. 

For example, the information there's limits to however accelerated airy and dependable tin question suggest they whitethorn beryllium governed by the velocity of a machine processor. 

The laws of physics that govern the beingness are besides akin to machine code, helium says, portion simple particles that marque up substance are similar pixels. 

He besides thinks the abundance of symmetry successful the satellite – from flowers to butterflies and snowflakes – is simply a power-saving method the machines usage to render the digitally constructed world. 

The simulation mentation is not unsocial to Professor Vopson; successful fact, it's fashionable among a fig of well-known figures including Tesla laminitis Elon Musk and American astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson. 

At a 2016 conference, Musk said the likelihood that we're surviving successful a 'base reality' – the existent beingness arsenic opposed to a simulated 1 – are 'one successful billions'. 

The word 'base reality' is portion of an enlargement connected the mentation that determination are layers upon layers of fake realities that we request to someway aftermath up from, akin to the movie 'Inception'.

But arsenic French philosopher René Descartes pointed retired successful 1637, 'Cogito, ergo sum', translated from the Latin arsenic 'I think, truthful I am'. 

In different words, the quality to uncertainty the quality of our world is fundamentally impervious that we exist, successful immoderate signifier oregon form.