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Mathematicians say they’ve proven the universe can’t be a simulation

Ellsworth Toohey
Dec 18, 2025
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A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led by Dr. Mir Faizal at UBC Okanagan used Gödel’s incompleteness theorem to argue that reality requires “non-algorithmic understanding” — something computers fundamentally cannot provide.

The argument goes like this: quantum gra…

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