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by swombat 4342 days ago
Unless, of course, our entire reality is running on a very powerful, but not infinitely powerful computer, and the Great Programmers in the Sky decided to cheat by putting in a hack that cuts off quantum behaviour at a larger scale...

Unlikely, but cute...

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Or

The granularity of the simulation of our reality is the Planck length. This constraint does not apply to the real, underlying, reality within which our simulation is embedded.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/224/