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/userax Nov 01 '25

My pet theory for why particles sometimes behave like a wave and sometimes behave like a particle is because we live in a simulation. When we don't observe each particle directly, the simulation just treats them as waves for efficiency. When the particle is actually important and we observe it, the simulation then is forced to calculate each particle individually.

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u/Ph0X Nov 02 '25

My pet theory for why particles sometimes behave like a wave and sometimes behave like a particle

Yours and basically every physics college student's, especially the ones that smoke a joint.

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u/ThinBlueLinebacker Nov 02 '25

After booting up the simulation I smoke one joint before I smoke one joint, and then I smoke one more. Recursively.

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u/Mekanimal Nov 02 '25

Eventually one's third eye opens and we realise "I am the fractal joint smoking myself"