Episode 45: The Simulation

Luis and Angelo kick off this episode with mind-bending facts about the vastness of the universe as they explore the theory that our reality may be a computer-generated simulation, built not on physical matter, but on encoded information.  Discover how the presence of error-correcting code in our fundamental equations of physics, the prevalence of the golden ratio in shaping the proportions we see throughout nature, and the strange behavior of particles all point to a deeper, hidden structure — one that behaves suspiciously like a programmed system.  You’ll hear how particles in our world change behavior once observed — just like video game worlds that only load when your character turns to face them — and how quantum entanglement appears to defy space and time itself, producing outcomes that occur instantaneously, faster than light, with no known explanation other than the possibility that it was programmed from outside our universe.  As evidence continues to mount, many scientists and philosophers now acknowledge that they can’t find a compelling reason why we aren’t living in a simulation.