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Letter: Yet more hints that none of this is actually real (1)

Published 13 May 2020

From David Norman, Ipsach, Switzerland

Ed Subitzky says that if we live in a simulated cosmos, then major anomalies in physics could actually be bugs in the programming (Letters, 28 March).

In the same issue, your columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein (p 24) explains how different measurement methods return differing values for the Hubble constant, which describes the expansion of space-time. Of course, there is absolutely no connection here.

Issue no. 3282 published 16 May 2020

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