9 Compelling Pieces Of Evidence That The Universe Is A Simulation

2. The Universe Is Digital

We tend to think of the universe as a smooth, continuous structure, but its is actually split into discrete chunks.

Much like the cubes in the grid that we talked about before, there appears to be a "minimum" measurement in the universe, known as Planck Length. Just like in a game of chess, in which you cannot move less than one square, in the universe, you can't have less that on planck length. It is digital, quantified, it is in bits.

To be clear, you won't be able to see the pixels of the universe, even if you put your eye really close to your hand. To visualise Planck length, picture a dot at 0.1mm in size, then blow that dot up to the size of the observable universe (about 92 billion light-years), and a Planck length would be the size of a 0.1mm dot in the middle of that. Pretty small.

However small they are though, these "bits" of information are temptingly similar to the way information is stored on a computer. Maybe whoever programmed it just didn't expect us to look that closely.