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Letter: Time, gentlepersons, please, time please

Published 1 March 2017

From Martin Baker, Eskbank, Midlothian, UK

Ananthaswamy's excellent article reminded me of work by physicist on the . Swingle has that black holes must represent Nature's most efficient quantum computers. This, with the “holographic principle” that a 3-dimensional universe maps on to a surface, raises the distinct and disturbing possibility that we really do live in a computer simulation, running on the event horizon of a black hole.

Issue no. 3115 published 4 March 2017

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