Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation

Cosmos

«We regret to inform you that reality is real.» is only one of the many great reactions on Twitter to this story. I cannot tell you exactly how the proof worked, but apparently, no computer in the universe could ever be powerful enough to simulate the world we live in.


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