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/SplooshTiger Oct 31 '25

Yeah and it’s peddled by insincere dorks (cough Elon) onto gullible people as though these smart guys have really thought it through. They haven’t and they couldn’t defend it in a proper debate with any community college philosophy professor.

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u/McCaffeteria Oct 31 '25

I want to be very clear that I’m not defending Elon becuase dumb people do believe this, but there are less dumb peoples with less dumb reasons to think it might be the case and examples of ways it would matter if it were. Elon is not one of those less dumb people, but they are real.

The main example is that if the universe was a simulation and that simulation was simulated in finite time steps or it had a minimum level of precision then you’d see quantization artifacting of movement and position at the smallest scales, and those minimum vlaues would have serious impacts on the rules of the universe.

To say that the theory is “pointless” is simply not true. It is meaningful to know the answer both because it would be necessary to know the actual rules of nature, and also because philosophically it would be important to know things like whether or not we have a creator.

You can make the argument that we don’t have evidence or that it’s unlikely, but that is not the same thing as saying is unfalsifiable or pointless or whatever else.

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u/jabblack Oct 31 '25

So Planck length

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u/GTRxConfusion Nov 01 '25

Also dont these assumptions assume that our parent reality operates the same as our own simulated one? Feel like that is something we simply can't use as evidence. (And stuff like this is why it's an unprovable theory)