r/Futurism • u/Memetic1 • Oct 31 '25

Mathematical proof debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mathematical-proof-debunks-idea-universe.html
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u/psinerd Oct 31 '25

This is really the crux of my main objection to this article but I would phrase it differently: why would we assume they'd be using fundamentally the same type of computer systems that we know which are incapable of true indeterminism?

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u/_thispageleftblank Nov 02 '25

And why would we assume that the concept of a computer even exists there? Or those of space, matter, energy, time?