Scientist Suggests We Explore 'Universe is a VR Simulation' Theory

Slashdot post from 2008.01.04:

A New Zealand physicist has written a paper saying that physicists should seriously explore the possibility the universe is a giant virtual reality simulation. He says that the existence of quantum phenomena could be due to the underlying digital nature of the simulation and also claims his VR hypothesis can explain relativity, the big bang and more. It should be possible to perform experiments to prove the hypothesis too. He reasons that if reality was to do something that information processing cannot, then it cannot be virtual.

I know we've talked about this before (not that I can find the post)... I think he's just watched the Matrix one too many times...