7 Reasons Why Nothing Is Real And Your Life Is A Lie

2. The Universe Is A Computer Simulation

You've played The Sims, right? You might think that the idea of the universe as a computer simulation might be reserved for the tinfoil hat brigade, but there are a number of physicists out there who think it might be so. As our ability to develop more and more advanced computers increases, lots of people are wondering whether it would be possible to create one that could simulate a whole universe ... and whether this has already happened. The problem is that our universe works perfectly. Like, really perfectly. As far as we know, the laws of nature are universal, but we don't really know why, but could it be because they were just coded that way? As any programmer will tell you, no computer program is perfect, and that's how some think we might be able to spot the simulation. By looking for flaws and anomalies in the 3D grid model assumed to be making up our fake universe, we might be able to lift the veil and look into the code beneath. If you think that sounds scary for us, imagine the horror of the being that created it upon discovering that their programme has become self aware and started poking around under the hood.