From the feedback I'm getting people must think I've gone off the deep end, and maybe I have, but it seems to me, with modern inflationary theory and so on, that the universe and all of existence must be either infinite or so damn big we will never know the difference. Indeed, our present cosmos originating from our own personal big bang may have been infinite for all we know -- all we have access to is the part from which the light has had time to reach us, and we know what really was there was many, many orders of magnitude more, if not unending. In all that, there are bound to be gazillions of "virtual" existences out there doing all sorts of things, so that the probability that we are in one becomes a virtual certainty.
I don't much credit claims of evidence for this sort of thing -- it's like claims for flying saucers -- if they are that smart and want to stay out of sight, subject over.
A word about the religionists response, for which, frankly, I have no respect. This is not a last ditch conversion hidden in science jargon. It is just common sense given what we know. There need be no deity doing this. Just smart people like us taking care of ourselves and our existence. It may be true that they would seem like deities to us, but seeming like a deity doesn't make one a deity.
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