Via Newsweek:
You can stop looking for glitches in the Matrix—it’s finally been proven that our universe is not merely a simulation running on some powerful alien civilization’s supercomputer.
I did not read the original paper. But the claimed solution involves quantum gravity and Kurt Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem. There is more than enough mind twisting physics and logic in there that I am not going to even try to really understand it. That complexity means there might be room enough for an oversight in their proof.
I don’t know that it matters to me one way or the other, but I am vaguely pleased it is less likely our reality is huge computer simulation.
If we were in a giant simulation it may have been programmed so that we couldn’t tell if we were in one. So any “proof” we are not could merely be part of the programming. Ultimately…to paraphrase Cankles the Killer…”what difference does it make”. Whether we are or are not part of a computer simulation ultimately has no effect on our lives. It’s just another theoretical, hypothetical blind alley. Like asking how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.