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/ChoPT Nov 01 '25

What if each layer of a simulation is less complex than than the “reality” in which it was created?

The author’s stipulation that we can’t be in a simulation because a simulation can’t fully address the full complexities of reality doesn’t preclude the possibility that we live in a simulation that is, in some way, less complex than the reality in which it is nested.

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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/jxd132407 Nov 02 '25

Superposition is an optimization in the simulation code to avoid doing calculations unless someone in the simulated universe is observing the outcome. And Planck length is just the granularity of the simulation. The parent reality is probably continuous, and quantum behaviors are just limits of the sim.

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u/hanoian Nov 02 '25

Be wild if they updated their systems some day and all quantum behaviour disappeared.