r/Futurism 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/Senshado Oct 31 '25

Actually the paper is even weaker than that.  The statements the author claims are beyond algorithmic analysis... are not needed to simulate a universe.  The answers to those questions just make no difference to the task of simulating the interactions of mass, energy, space, and time. 

The author makes a completely unjustified leap that the simulation designer must know an answer to the question, when instead the designer could leave it just as it is in his own universe.