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Was God Found on GitHub?

A plugin developer claims to have found a backdoor to God in his code

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In September, a plugin developer named Aleksey Vaneev claimed that he found theoretical proof of the existence of God while building an algorithm for a white noise generator (!). Then, he posted his results on GitHub:

GitHub - avaneev/prvhash: PRVHASH - Pseudo-Random-Value Hash. Hash functions, PRNG with unlimited…

Specifically, he wrote:

I’ve seemingly broke into some “backdoor” in mathematics itself. The meaning of this finding is questionable, and I’m actually not pushing any specific meaning on anyone, but making my own personal conclusions…

For good measure, he posted an animated representation of part of his code on YouTube:

How, you might wonder, can someone possibly claim to have discovered a proof of concept…