{"id":214773,"date":"2025-05-26T09:06:31","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientist-shows-it-is-physically-impossible-for-us-to-be-living-in-a-simulation"},"modified":"2025-05-26T09:06:31","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T14:06:31","slug":"scientist-shows-it-is-physically-impossible-for-us-to-be-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/scientist-shows-it-is-physically-impossible-for-us-to-be-living-in-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Scientist shows it is physically impossible for us to be living in a simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientist-shows-it-is-physically-impossible-for-us-to-be-living-in-a-simulation.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trumpets have sounded, the simulation hypothesis, the idea that we are all living in a simulation of our universe created by our distant descendants living in the \u201creal\u201d universe, is dead.<\/p>\n<p>In a new <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/physics\/articles\/10.3389\/fphy.2025.1561873\/full\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a>, Italian physicist Franco Vazza, a researcher in astrophysics simulations, claims that it is impossible to simulate even a sizeable portion of the universe within itself.<\/p>\n<p>This conclusion seems intuitively obvious. While the universe may be <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/tardis-regions-spacetime-dark-energy\/29292\/\" rel=\"noopener ugc nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">bigger on the inside<\/a>, it doesn\u2019t seem like you should be able to represent the whole thing inside itself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trumpets have sounded, the simulation hypothesis, the idea that we are all living in a simulation of our universe created by our distant descendants living in the \u201creal\u201d universe, is dead. In a new paper, Italian physicist Franco Vazza, a researcher in astrophysics simulations, claims that it is impossible to simulate even a sizeable [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}