DISCUSSION: When you play a movie, you watch it from start to finish and see what happens. The scientists are doing the same thing: they create some theoretical laws for a universe, and then see what happens when you make a universe with those laws.
You can see this if you keep reading the line with “play the movie”. It says: they do simulations and calculations and “see what disasters occur” [in the fictional universe]. So playing the movie means seeing what happens under the new laws the scientists made.
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- No. The scientists are looking at a fictional universe, but “play the movie” isn’t referring to that. Instead, it refers to watching what happens in the simulation.
- CORRECT. See the discussion above. The scientists setup a fictional world, and then they see what happens under the rules the made. It’s like starting a universe at the big bang and then watching what happens over time.
- No. The situation can be dramatic: disasters occur. But really, it’s just a simulation in a computer, and there are no humans in that simulation. It’s not that dramatic.
- This sentence means that cosmologists would model their scientific work on action movie archetypes. That makes zero sense! The movie was an analogy, not a model for scientific work.
- When you watch a movie, do you play a role in the movie? No! So this answer makes no sense, as it’s referring to “playing a movie”. You passively watch a movie, just as the scientists passively watch their simulation unfold.
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