Scientists May Simulate our Entire History in the Future.
And, if they succeed, they may turn time travel possible!
According to Josef Nesvadba (1926–2005), a famous Czech sci-fi writer, there will be a time where hard sciences (physics, chemistry and etc.) will solve all nature’s mysteries and people will turn massively to arts. I agree with him, but I think there will be one last challenging puzzle to be solved: virtual historical simulation.
I think there will be a time where scientists will try to virtually simulate everything that happened in human and pre-human history. In order to do that, they will collect great amounts of information from everywhere. And, thru inductive and deductive reasoning, they will try to draw causal connections between every piece of information they gathered. For example, knowing that the Eiffel Tower exists, they must discover how a random guy, let’s say Julian Bruile, was born in 2027, at 17:11:47, 13 of June, in Paris, Texas. And yes, the Eiffel Tower may have something to do with him. According to the butterfly effect, and to Schrödinger’s theoretical cat experiment, almost every tiny detail of Earth’s history may participate in the casual chain of the birth of Julian Bruile.
In the future, someone in your lineage may discover everything there is to know about you thru “historical simulation”. My suggestion: deal with it and give a fuck about it.
In order to simulate our history, scientists must develop a very complex machine. One that could register every new piece of historical information and simulates all possible theories and narratives that may help to explain what exactly happened in the past. With this power, they would not only try to understand what happened in the past but would also try to predict the future, and even virtually simulate the future. Awesome, isn't it?
I think this machine could be called “Horus”, which is the name of one of the most important Egyptian gods that, according to Egyptian mythology, had its eye restored by the god Hathor. Or it could be named “Odin”, the nordic god that transformed his eye into birds to gather information around the world. Or, maybe, Conan, in honor of Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle (who created Sherlock Holmes).
Just imagine how cool will be this kind of professional: a time-traveling detective that investigates every piece of evidence in order to reconstruct the past. And, eventually, based on the work of this kind of professional, there could be also economists predicting (and simulating) the future with a great deal of precision.
