How Quantum Quirks Prove Simulation Theory
Ben Popkin
There is something beyond both our material universe and the vat of nothingness that the Big Bang emerged from to create our universe. Modern science concludes that the universe was once the size of a grapefruit (Lineweaver), then it erupted and started expanding interminably into the universe we know today. However, the universe is ruled by laws like Newton's laws of motion, or that the speed of light is 299,792,458 m/s. But what determined the speed at which light travels, and why was it not determined to be faster? Why even have a cap at all? What makes light behave that way? Was the decision arbitrary, or was it thought out? No matter why these laws exist, there is a rulebook for the universe, and its mere existence proves that there is something more that lies beyond the empty vacuum that the Big Bang emerged from. The existence of rules implies that the rules had to come from somewhere.
Ben Popkin is a Sophomore Political Science and Philosophy major with a focus on Rousseau and metaphysics. He wrote his paper while living and working at a Hindu temple in Utah.