r/interestingasfuck 26d ago

This pixelated leaf I found /r/ALL

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u/VikingTeddy 26d ago

Yeah, we really can't know one way or the other. We can't even be sure anyone else exists, you might be the only sentient being in the universe. You might even be a simulation yourself, just a bunch of code that thinks it's sentient, but is actually just following instructions.

Btw, there is no "shortest distance" or "shoertest time". Planck distance/time is merely the smallest meaningful distance to our current understanding.

There also isn't evidence of a maximum energy. Though the energy in our universe is finite, there is nothing that says it couldn't be higher.

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u/Wyldfire2112 26d ago edited 26d ago

From the standpoint of questioning if we're a simulation, though, the difference is irrelevant; a voxel is a voxel, and a tick is a tick.

EDIT: Fixing a spelling error. Where's autocorrect when you actually need it?