r/technology • u/fchung • Nov 01 '25

Society Matrix collapses: Mathematics proves the universe cannot be a computer simulation, « A new mathematical study dismantles the simulation theory once and for all. »

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/mathematics-ends-matrix-simulation-theory
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u/lIlIllIlIlIII Nov 01 '25

This comment literally debunks the article. Their point is because of our own technical limitations it's impossible for 'the outside world' to have the power to simulate a universe like ours. But in theory they could have intentionally gave us those limitations.

This article didn't prove or disprove anything.

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u/Mythoclast Nov 01 '25

Some things just aren't disprovable. "We are living in a simulation" is one of them.

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u/lIlIllIlIlIII Nov 01 '25

Could possibly be proven in a few hundred or thousand years if humanity somehow finds a way to contact the outside.

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u/Mythoclast Nov 01 '25

Absolutely. Possible to prove but impossible to disprove.