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Letter: Who exactly is running this simulation? (3)

Published 7 January 2026

From Lawrence J. Ryan, Wilsonville, Oregon, US

Your article made me wonder who would be running our simulation. If the advanced civilisation discovered how to do simulations when it was 1,000,000 years ahead of us, it is just as likely they’ve had this technology for 50 years or more, and the know-how and ability to create a simulation has spread widely throughout their society. In fact, we are in a simulation that is a third-grade girl’s science fair project. She’s bored with it and, after the science fair ends, she intends to turn us o–.

Issue no. 3577 published 10 January 2026

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