Overview
- The study, published in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics, asserts that computation alone cannot yield a complete, consistent account of nature.
- Authors Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir, and Francesco Marino build on frameworks where space and time emerge from an information-based foundation.
- Invoking Gödel’s incompleteness, they argue there are true statements no algorithm can capture, so any purely algorithmic simulation of reality is impossible.
- The authors also conclude a computational theory of everything cannot exist, proposing a deeper, non-algorithmic layer to underpin physical law.
- Some researchers, including Melvin Vopson and Javier Moreno, dispute the reasoning as a category error that imposes a simulated world’s rules on any hypothetical host system.