9 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That The Universe Is A Simulation

3. There Is Lag

Sticking with quantum realism for a moment, there are a couple of aspects of physics that make a lot more sense if you think about them as products of quantum virtual reality.

Einstein's famous twin paradox, for example, in which time dilation can cause one twin to age much faster than another. This isn't just a weird product of some complicated maths either, time dilation has been objectively observed in the real world, but how could it be physically possible for time to run at different speeds in the same universe?

The answer is every gamer's worst nightmare: Lag.

In gaming, time slows down when the servers are busy, moving at a different rate to others' time. In the "real" world, time slows down near a large gravitating mass, or at high velocities, suggesting that it is virtual. If reality is busy processing huge amounts of gravity or velocity, it might only have a small amount of power to spare for the passage of time.

As well as time dilation, dark matter and even the curvature of spacetime are also thought to be potential indicators of our quantum overlord.