Hey, how's your day going? Did you know that nothing is real? There are some serious, proper physicists out there who reckon that we could all be living inside a giant computer simulation. There's already mounting evidence that we're living inside a cosmic hologram, but what if it's actually a quantum computer? This isn't an idea that began with The Matrix either, Plato wondered a similar thing back in 380 BCE and now some scientists reckon there could be a way of finding out. A paper published in 2012 said that if the simulation is based on a 3D grid as most are, then there are certain anomalies that sometimes crop up within it. If the universe is a simulation then the anisotropy of high-energy cosmic rays might just reveal those anomalies, a glitch in the matrix, if you will. String theory physicist Dr James Gates has even claimed that String Theory actually appears to contain a self-correcting error code, a bit like a computer programme. To be clear, he's not saying it is, but it's mighty similar. So, if someone wanted to, say, destroy the universe, they wouldn't have to build any great bombs, nano-bots or wormholes, just pull the plug and watch reality disintegrate around you.
