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[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

If we theorize that the universe is like a computer program, then maybe the Universe has several layers of abstraction and we only can access our current layer, therefore forever having an incomplete model. If something external to our layer is affecting it, it would probably be impossible to know.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

You can absolutely know if something external is affecting it. Dark matter and energy might be such a thing. What you might not be able to tell is how those mechanics arise, you'll only know the aggregate result on your layer.

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