It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization's supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically proven this isn't just unlikely—it's impossible.

Their findings, published in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics, go beyond simply suggesting that we’re not living in a simulated world like The Matrix. They prove something far more profound: the universe is built on a type of understanding that exists beyond the reach of any algorithm.

  • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    7 days ago

    Even if it was real, that higher power making a simulation would still have constraints and would both be able to stop the recursion, and probably never let it emerge in the first place.

    I don’t see why they should stop recursive simulations, but each recursive level would have a lot less resources. These resources can be anything that impacts computational cost, from the density of matter and energy (or whatever their equivalent ist), the speed of information, to amount of dimensions.