http://elijah.mirecki.com/categories/physics/ Recent content in Physics on Sylvia Mirecki Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:46:30 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simulated-universe-rebuttal/ Sat, 08 Jun 2024 21:46:30 +0000 http://elijah.mirecki.com/blog/simulated-universe-rebuttal/ Introduction Once in a while, you hear someone propose “maybe our universe is in a (computer) simulation”. It goes something along the lines of “we can already basically simulate the universe, so it’s not a stretch to assume we’re in a simulation”. That’s absurd. In this post, I’ll rebut the idea from several perspectives. 1. The Principle of Parsimony indicates we’re not actively running in a simulation The Ruliad is defined as “the result of following all possible computational rules in all possible ways”.