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Are we living in a simulation? A says no: we need no longer worry about our lives being mere software spawned by a highly advanced supercomputer.
These stories stem from a recent Science Advances paper about simulating quantum physics. One science magazine extrapolated from this to suggest that storing information about just a few hundred electrons needs a – thus, simulating the universe is impossible.
But the paper only claims that a specific, limited type of simulation won’t work due to technical and hardware issues. It…
