Physicists prove the Universe isn't a simulation after all
5 days ago
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- Researchers from UBC Okanagan mathematically proved the universe cannot be a simulation.
- The study used Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to show reality requires 'non-algorithmic understanding,' which no computation can replicate.
- The simulation hypothesis, once considered untestable, was challenged by demonstrating the universe's foundations exist beyond algorithmic systems.
- Quantum gravity suggests space and time emerge from a deeper 'Platonic realm' of pure information, but even this cannot be fully described by computation.
- The findings imply that a complete theory of everything must include non-algorithmic understanding, making the universe fundamentally unsimulatable.