(December 10, 2014 at 2:06 am)robvalue Wrote: Heywood, you seem to be assuming that the parent universe operates in pretty much the same way as ours. There's no reason to think that. It could be anything, and they've just happened to run a bizarre simulation like our reality. The "speed of light" might not even be a concept that makes sense in their reality.
It is easier to make my point if we assume the simulation is similar to the reality which contains the platform that runs the simulation. But yes, you are correct, the simulation can be vastly different from the reality. I would think there would still be a fundamental limit on how fast information can propagate, however.