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Proof that Steins;Gate world is a running simulation

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Just a warning that the article ruins the ending of the anime if you get interested in watching it.

Yeah, I wish I read the comments before reading the article. Thanks for the heads up.

Honestly the article was not worth the read, let alone the spoiler.

Why would you read it if you have not finished it sorry I should have put spoilers, great show I loved it.

But hey I was just playing with my imagination connecting some dots while watching a video.

I wrote it one year ago and suddenly said leme post it on hk because why not.

I had no clue what "Steins;Gate" was. I presumed it was some pair of physicists writing papers on some clever quantum simulation.

I mean now you know what it's and you can watch and enjoy it it's way more complex than what I wrote (although I guess I fked up):)

Haha, no no I just read about Quantum physics to learn the buzz words. And this article does not make a clear conclusion. I only wanted to connect that hamming part with it.

I don't see how that could provide an alternative to Novikov fixpoints. You can't control the initial conditions well enough, so the Novikov fixpoint you get is one where no observable time travel has ever occurred.

I think you're getting too attached to fixpoints and worldlines, it would be better to think through the actual computer program the simulation uses.

Good point, but I believe that this is what the anime intended. Because if you look at it, this is what Okabe does, changes the past with the least effects. You are totally correct this amount of changes is actually a lot

It's not proof. And that's not what worldlines are. It's a story trope that that is how time travel consistency works, where "observable details" are things that the character or audience could notice, instead of being almost everything that's not microscopic.

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