[NateEag]

> 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."

[kaashif]

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.