UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation

https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation

Sometimes just starting out small can help one to see a much larger picture of things.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_simulation_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulacron-3 , https://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?30542

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/70/DanielFGalouye-Simulacron-3.jpg

Of course there is too much data to accurately simulate things on a cosmic scale, but on a city scale and a planetary scale, that's a different situation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_simulation_game

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimEarth , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thirteenth_Floor

What if someone flips the switch, or pulls the plug on this world? Has it happened before?

"Beautiful World" is from Devo’s 1981 album New Traditionalists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-gbYjLd93g&list=RDE-gbYjLd93g&start_radio=1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Evolution#Music_video , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDaOgu2CQtI

How many times has this world been rebooted or reset?

https://answersingenesis.org/bible-questions/what-does-replenish-the-earth-mean

https://www.bible.com/bible/compare/GEN.1.28 Perhaps it was deemed to be too unsettling that this world might be on some kind of a cosmic loop.

https://creation.com/en/articles/genesis-1-28-replenish-or-fill

https://answersingenesis.org/bible-characters/noah/noah-after-the-flood-lessons-from-his-indiscretion/

https://arkencounter.com/flood/after So, whether one considers Pre-Adamite times, the flood was either the first or the second reset of this world.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Revelation%2021&version=NIV

https://biblehub.com/revelation/21-1.htm Then, at this point in the story whether one considers Pre-Adamite times, a-new-earth would either be the second or 3rd reset of this world.

https://www.cslewisinstitute.org/resources/heaven-and-the-new-earth-from-the-bible-and-c-s-lewis

Two or 3 reboots or resets and that's just from the Bible.

Various cultures imply that this world is in a cyclical pattern. How many times has this world been on a loop, 4 or 5...?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_World_(mythology)

https://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/the-westworld-finale-proves-were-all-on-this-loop-together.php

https://acsforum.org/cyclical-history-and-the-politics-of-mysticism/

https://www.wisdomlib.org/concept/cyclic-existence

https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2241&context=ccr

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_time

https://benjamincain8.medium.com/cycles-progress-and-the-clash-of-civilizations-880a6610c222

https://lfs-indigenous.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2014/07/CyclicalWorldviewEngFinal.pdf

https://www.britannica.com/science/time/Cyclic-view-of-time-in-the-philosophy-of-history