monkeymagick
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Sorry to be the bearer of bad news for Matrix fans. Theoretical physicists from Oxford University have found that the reality we live in cannot be generated due to the sheer volume it would take to create. The findings suggest that the "the complexity of the simulation increased exponentially with the number of particles being simulated." Merely storing the information of a couple of hundreds of electrons would require more atoms than what exist within the entire universe the calculations show.
The pair initially set out to see whether it was possible to use a technique known as quantum Monte Carlo to study the quantum Hall effect - a phenomenon in physical systems that exhibit strong magnetic fields and very low temperatures, and manifests as an energy current that runs across the temperature gradient. The phenomenon indicates an anomaly in the underlying space-time geometry.
The pair initially set out to see whether it was possible to use a technique known as quantum Monte Carlo to study the quantum Hall effect - a phenomenon in physical systems that exhibit strong magnetic fields and very low temperatures, and manifests as an energy current that runs across the temperature gradient. The phenomenon indicates an anomaly in the underlying space-time geometry.