UBC researchers claim the universe can’t be a simulation, citing math that proves reality goes beyond computation and algorithmic logic.

And here I was waiting to get unplugged, or maybe finding a Nokia phone that received a call.

  • sonofearth@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    The uptime is too good to be a simulation. It has an uptime of like 14 billions years! AWS has a lot of catching up to do. /s

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Yes, just like Minecraft worlds are so antiquated given how they contain diamonds in deep layers that must have taken a billion years to form.

      What a simulated world contains as its local timescale doesn’t mean the actual non-local run time is the same.

      It’s quite possible to create a world that appears to be billions of years old but only booted up seconds ago.

    • osakapinata@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      But would we even notice an outage? Like hitting pause on a simulation and restarting it. There could be nightly maintenance and we may never know. Or maybe that’s what deja vu is after all…

    • roscoe@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 days ago

      From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.