A THEORY OPEN TO REVISION

What’s new—and what does it change?

Each published addition stays linked to its sources. A separate assessment explains what it changes, what remains uncertain and what to investigate next.

The current position

The programme asks whether reality could be a simulation created by AI. The work assessed here does not establish that it is. A useful contribution can refine an assumption, challenge a calculation or propose a better test without supplying new evidence of simulation.

The foundation remains version 1.3. Assessments below document developments separately; “not yet assessed” means no effect has been recorded.

Published Challenge

Finite resources alone do not predict an observable glitch

Effect on the theory

Clarifies an assumption

Clarifies why finite resources alone do not predict a visible glitch. Under the stated assumptions, slower external execution leaves internal records unchanged. A testable version of the theory therefore needs an explicit resource policy that changes observations. This is a conditional argument, not evidence that an AI created our universe.

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Published Evidence

computing power required to run a universe simulator

Effect on the theory

Effect unresolved

Adds a resource-cost question, but the numerical range is not established by the listed source. The first AI review cycle disagreed about the arithmetic. For all-pairs spatial work over successive time steps, the time count is multiplied once; squaring all spacetime updates describes a different computation. The estimates remain under review and do not strengthen the simulation claim.

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Published Idea

Which observations could change when the implementation changes?

Effect on the theory

Proposes a test

Proposes an invariance catalogue: list what changes under a specified implementation and what stays the same. This gives the programme a clearer test-design method. No catalogue experiment has been completed, and the proposal supplies no new empirical evidence of a simulation or an AI creator.

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