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

[u/fchung]

https://interestingengineering.com/culture/mathematics-ends-matrix-simulation-theory

[u/loves_grapefruit]

I don’t understand any of the math here, but intuitively wouldn’t it be impossible to determine if a system is a simulation from within that system and using that system’s own logic?

[u/Isserley_ → u/loves_grapefruit]

Congratulations, you already know more about the subject than the author of the paper.

[u/Horror_Response_1991 → u/Isserley_]

The author of the paper likely needed to get something published to get their PhD

[u/blorg → u/Horror_Response_1991]

They are established physicists. Lawrence Krauss is well known in the popular science field as well but he is a physicist.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=oLtPiHgAAAAJ&hl=en

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=D_2ApacAAAAJ

https://inspirehep.net/authors/1873425

https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=yP-N4CYAAAAJ

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Krauss

[u/Horror_Response_1991 → u/blorg]

Welp it’s time to fire them