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by amethyst 828 days ago
Or it's a simulation and someone keeps pushing changes to production.
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Which would also count as new physics.
With even more literal meaning of new.
Someone keeps running gparted on our partition
All the expert software engineers agree this is the most likely explanation. Have physicists looked into this?
> All the expert software engineers agree this is the most likely explanation.

That's quite a strong claim. I'm skeptical. Sources?

> Have physicists looked into this?

They shelved it right next to "God Made The Universe" in the "Unfalsifiable Propositions" section, under the title "Grad Students Made The Universe."

I'm reading their comment as a joke about how software engineers tend to overestimate their own expertise on things like physics and are not actually anywhere close to experts.

Software engineers presenting weird pseudo science as serious physics is one way this manifests.

I could be wrong.

I wonder if their introspection is good enough to have our population on a Grafana dashboard somewhere
Somewhere aliens are making fun of how shoddy our simulation is coded.
It's definitely a simulation at this point