Reply to post: Re: "To model just a few hundred electrons needs a computer bigger than the universe"

Forget the 'simulated universe', say boffins, no simulator could hit the required scale

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Re: "To model just a few hundred electrons needs a computer bigger than the universe"

> If we are in a simulation, we have absolutely no concept how much bigger the environment is outside of the simulation.

And perhaps more relevant, what the laws of physics are in that environment. There's certainly no requirement for them to be the same as those we (or our experiments) experience.

But as has already been mentioned, it really doesn't matter.

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