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> spacetime is quantized. Doesn't that just adds more evidence for us living in a simulation, and not the nice kind either. Would be interesting to see when t

• codethief 5y ago
  > physcists would suddenly discover that spacetime isn't as quantized as they initially thought I don't think the majority of physicists think that spacetime is quantized. Sure, something is going to happen at the Planck scale but whether that's quantization of time and space is very much an open question.
• simiones 5y ago
  Quantizing space and time would not necessarily make simulations simpler - just like quantizing forces actually turns out to probably make the simulation exponentially harder on a classical computer - quantum computers can be simulated by classical computers in exponential time with the best algorithms that we know of, though it is still possible that Polynomial algorithms could exist. Of course, nothing at all can actually prove/disprove that we live in a simulation in the scientific sense - it's just a transcendental model for people who don't like theistic transcendental models, but no more "scientific" than "creation science" or "the gods did it" theories.
• cheaprentalyeti 5y ago
  It wasn't until Columbus came along that they finally bothered to move us from the "flat" default starter server to the spherical one.
  • joycian 5y ago
    No, that was already patched before Erastothenes. Some simple branch predictions based on behavior patterns of the Bronze Age civilizations were enough to get the change through management.