Ah fuck they've figured it out

Well, have you considered that perhaps that’s the point?

In the beginning was the Creation of the Universe. This has made a lot of people angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Maybe the frame rate is slowing down already. We'd never know.

The simulation will simply take longer to get to the next state. We wouldn't be able to tell.

Heck, we might have crashed the simulation multiple times already with crazy experiments and they had to load a backup.

Don't worry, light pollution from cities cancels it out. The simulation used to need to render a detailed night sky for pretty much everyone on the planet. Now most people just get a dull greyish black.

Nah we’re fine, it doesn’t use processing power until we observe it. Maybe if we set up a bunch of observation posts and intentionally tried to DDOS reality, but I’m sure it has enough resources for our puny science.

FOV: 0.1

Render Distance: 13b light years

CPU: 😵‍💫

I mean, planck length & planck time are probably the resolution our simulation runs at. And collapsing superposition? Obviously just the "LoD" system only rendering what's relevant to the users/creators and wasting no resources on unused assets.

It's all good, the simulation has asset culling and LOD settings.

Yeah because rendering a blurry image of a star is so difficult compared to simulating physics for billions of beings and plants down to the atom.

I imagine it’s like the original Doom engine, it’s only rendered by ray tracing and showing what you (or anyone) can see.

DoS on the universe

Like before the last reboot 13,8 billon years ago

I'm imagining a big ERROR - pop-up appearing in the sky all of the sudden.

The idea amuses me!

[to be read in a snobby British accent]

Dear Gentle or Ladyman

It appears that you might have some trouble understanding the fundamental concepts of "the universe". See, in order for us to, let’s say, "know“ what is out there, we first have to observe it. Or rather, explain why a certain thing is the way it is.

You see, we already are affected by the working is these said far away galaxies and celestial bodies. Which means that this is like a slime farm in the spawn chunks. While we do not see it, the farm continuously runs.

It's a race between GrayStillPlays and Let'sGameItOut to see who can break the game first, and I'm here for it.

We love neo-geocentrism

Nice story by Isaak Asimov - The Last Question

https://xpressenglish.com/our-stories/the-last-question/

(PDF and Audio)

I'd imagine they save the state intermittently and can boot it back up if needed. Depends on how valuable this sim is I guess.

How many billions of people have we got? It seems like the universe is very good at scaling.

And even if it crashes, why would that mean it disappears? If your computer crashes, does it typically stop working forever, or can you fix it?

For all we know, maybe it already crashes a lot and there is just no way for us to know about it.

At least it's a testable hypothesis. That's way farther than most pseudoscience does.

They have a trick: every time you sleep, they reboot to avoid memory leaks.

It also allows them to optimize in the background.

isn't there a hard limit on what even a perfect telescope (photon receptor of some kind) can see, based on the speed of light? it's fuckin huge like 900 billion light years or something, but the universe is probably bigger than we could ever actually measure.

Lol it would be the simulators fault for trying to run the universe on a potato computer!

Just download more ram Mr Simulator!

At some point you just gotta realise you won't support 2+k consumer graphics & simply let it render at less details.

Who is gonna know? Yes, boobs have always been triangles.