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UBC Okanagan Team Claims Math Rules Out a Simulated Universe

The published paper invokes Gödelian incompleteness to argue that reality requires non-algorithmic understanding beyond computation.

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Faizal et al. show that the fundamental nature of reality operates in a way that no computer could ever simulate. Image credit: Gemini AI.
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Overview

  • Researchers Mir Faizal, Lawrence M. Krauss, Arshid Shabir and Francesco Marino report a mathematical result asserting that a computer simulation of the Universe is impossible.
  • The study contends that computation cannot deliver a complete and consistent account of physical reality, positing a deeper non-algorithmic basis for the laws of physics.
  • The authors draw on Gödel’s incompleteness and related undecidability results within a quantum-gravity context that treats spacetime as emergent from underlying information.
  • Faizal and Krauss state that no computational theory of quantum gravity can capture all physical phenomena, so an algorithmic simulation would be fundamentally inadequate.
  • The work is published in the Journal of Holography Applications in Physics and posted on arXiv, with media coverage following a UBC Okanagan release.