Are we living in a simulation?
Have you ever wondered why scientists have not found any alien life in the universe after so many years of research? Have you ever wondered why everything is so perfectly made right from the formation of an atom to the formation of the Universe?

Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX is a believer in the simulation hypothesis which says that if humanity can survive long enough to create a technology capable of convincing simulations of reality, it will create many such simulations and therefore there will be lots of simulated realities and only one “base reality”, so statistically it’s probably more likely we live in a simulation right now. In 2016, he explained, “40 years ago, we had Pong. Two rectangles and a dot. Now, 40 years later, we have photo-realistic 3D with millions playing simultaneously. If you assume any rate of improvement at all, then the games will become indistinguishable from reality, even if that rate of advancement drops by 1,000 from what it is now. It’s a given that we’re clearly on a trajectory that we’re going to have games that are indistinguishable from reality. It would seem to follow that the odds that we’re in base reality is 1 in billions.”
One way to find out that we are living in a simulation is to find for glitches. Every game has a bug. So what if the simulation in which we are living also has a bug? The following are 5 reasons why I think we might be living in a simulation.
1. The Mandela Effect
Some people claim to remember a TV coverage of Nelson Mandela’s death in the late 1980s even though he actually died in 2013. The “Mandela Effect” is therefore supposedly proof that whoever is in charge of our simulation is changing the past. Another example of the Mandela Effect is knowing that Pikachu does not really have a black stripe on its tail. (Go and google it if you don’t believe)
2. Missing alien life
We’ve spent billions sending space probes like Voyager 1 & Voyager 2 through outer space and should probably have found evidence of extra-terrestrials by now, right? Not so fast: Aliens would likely be far more technologically advanced than we are, so the fact that we haven’t located them suggests we live in a simulation. Or maybe the computer that we’re in only has enough RAM to simulate one planetary civilization at a time.
3. The Goldilocks Zone
Earth exists within what the astrophysicists calls the Goldilocks Zone, close enough to a star that greenhouse gases can trap heat to keep liquid water, but far enough that the planet does not become a hothouse. The fact that we live in such an orbital sweet spot is an evidence for a simulation. If our sim-designers wanted us to succeed, it makes sense that they’d place us in such a habitable environment.
4. Rules of the Universe
Our universe has strict laws of physics that suggests a possible evidence that we live in a simulation. If I was a character in a computer game, I would eventually discover that the rules seemed completely rigid and mathematical. In this theory, the speed of light — the fastest rate at which any particle can travel — represents the speed limit for transmitting information within the network of our simulation.
5. Deja Vu
What if Deja Vu is the simulation uploading the next part of our conscious life to continue the simulation. All simulations need inputs in order to carry on simulating and what if these moments we have are the next stage being uploaded to us? We get the feeling of being here before, but we can’t have been? Also notice how when you have Deja Vu you cannot change what happens? Maybe because that’s what we have been programmed to do?
