9 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That The Universe Is A Simulation

8. The Universe Is Fine Tuned

Speaking of a perfectly programmed universe, another thing that bothers people is the fact that the universe seems to be perfectly programmed to allow us to live in it.

Any minor adjustment to any of the physical laws, and the universe could never have formed in the first place. If the nuclear strong force was just that bit weaker, matter would fall apart. If gravity was much stronger, stars would collapse in on themselves in seconds.

This, however, hasn't happened. The universe is not too hot, nor too cold, it is juuust right.

The Anthropic Principle is the philisophical stance that the conditions of the universe are constrained to that which life can emerge. The explanations for this range from the multiverse to intelligent design, but one of the possibilities is that the universe is fake - a simulation created by another being.

If you were a computer programmer (maybe you are), and you were designing a virtual universe to run, you would probably code for the conditions in which life would emerge too. Otherwise it would be like playing The Sims with an empty house.

This is all very well as part of a philosophical debate, but what about the evidence?