Comments on: Nobel Prize Awarded for Detection of Gravity Waves – IEEE Spectrum https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/10/04/nobel-prize-awarded-for-detection-of-gravity-waves-ieee-spectrum/ All about electronics and circuit design Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:36:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: Tomi Engdahl https://www.epanorama.net/blog/2017/10/04/nobel-prize-awarded-for-detection-of-gravity-waves-ieee-spectrum/comment-page-1/#comment-1565445 Wed, 04 Oct 2017 08:57:50 +0000 http://www.epanorama.net/newepa/?p=59924#comment-1565445 Physicists find we’re not living in a computer simulation
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The sci-fi trope might now be put to rest after scientists find the suggestion that reality is computer generated is in principle impossible, writes Andrew Masterson.

The finding – an unexpectedly definite one – arose from the discovery of a novel link between gravitational anomalies and computational complexity.

In a paper published in the journal Science Advances, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhi show that constructing a computer simulation of a particular quantum phenomenon that occurs in metals is impossible – not just practically, but in principle.

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