The Largest Simulation of the Universe Ever Made

[Seldom Bucket]

It’s about time to retire the old astronomy joke: “Define the Universe and give three examples.” That’s because recent simulations are answering that question pretty well. Nowadays, the answer could just very well be, “See the FLAMINGO simulations.”


They’re a product of the VIRGO consortium for cosmological supercomputer simulations. FLAMINGO stands for Full-hydro Large-scale structure simulations with All-sky Mapping for the Interpretation of Next Generation Observations. Its main science goals are to carry out a suite of massive cosmological simulations. These latest and largest model universe simulations were executed on a supercomputer cluster at Durhan University in the UK.

The Largest Simulation of the Universe Ever Made

Astronomers created the largest-ever simulation of the Universe using a supercomputer to unite data and models of objects in the cosmos.

www.universetoday.com

 

[Sonikku]

It is amazing we can do this, yet we're unable to simulate, to any reasonable degree, the human mind. But one part of me also wonders if that is by design, to avoid the rise of artificial sentience, which would be the end of the planet.

 

[Nicholas]

It is amazing we can do this, yet we're unable to simulate, to any reasonable degree, the human mind. But one part of me also wonders if that is by design, to avoid the rise of artificial sentience, which would be the end of the planet.

Perhaps it's a different kind of super higher-grade question?