9 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That The Universe Is A Simulation

7. It's Built On A Grid

After thousands of years of wondering whether we're all just part of the matrix, one group of scientists think they might be able to come up with some more solid evidence.

Silas Beane and a team from the University of Bonn, have calculated that, if the universe is indeed a simulation, we should be able to spot certain artifacts from the underlying lattice that it is built on. When we simulate universes ourselves (at an impossibly tiny scale of course), we also use a grid structure to keep everything in place.

The key is in cosmic particles. As these rocket around the universe, they spread themselves across a spectrum of energies. There is, however, a limit to the amount of energy these cosmic particles can have, and there is a steep drop off after this amount. This cliff, according to Beane and his colleagues, is remarkably similar to the kind of cut-off you get when running a limited simulation with an underlying grid.

If the grid is there, Beane et al reckon that they should be able to pick up evidence of it by observing the way these cosmic particles scatter when they come up against it.