Rizwan Virk

So he said, we might be able to remember these other runs of the simulation.

So anyway, that gets us into, you know, this whole idea of is the past what we think it is, right?

That's, I think, the question you were asking, right?

Because you're like, if I just remember...

X, Y, Z, is that what actually happened?

Or is it just a representation of the past in the present?

And so when I started looking into the quantum physics side of it, I found something really weird.

We can talk about the observer effect, but this was like even weirder than that.

And it was something proposed by John Wheeler, who was at Princeton with Einstein.

And he was a bit younger than, you know, Niels Bohr and Einstein and all these kind of forefathers of quantum mechanics.

And he came up with several things that I was talking about.

But one of them is the delayed choice experiment or the cosmic delayed choice experiment, which puts into doubt this idea of the past.

And since we're talking about the past, let's go into this now.

If you don't mind.

Okay.

So imagine there's something like a quasar and that's a billion light years away from us, right?

And the light is coming from that quasar to here.

So it's going to take a billion years to get here because it's a billion light years away.

And then suppose there's something in the middle, like a black hole that's in the middle or a galaxy, something that's very gravitationally big.

And so suppose the light has to go to the left or to the right.