I don't know, Timmy, being God is a big responsibility
Read this in the past and there's a few things that bother me<p>* It's impossible to simulate a universe of our current resolution, because it would take more matter than the original universe.<p>* You can't just simulate 'observable areas'. Everything needs to be simulated.<p>* An infinite loop does not end, even in an infinitely powerful computer<p>* A fun calculation from the ZFS folks: To fully populate a 128bit filesystem (ie permute all combinations) you a lot of energy. So much energy you could boil the world's oceans, See:<p>* [1] Physical Limits of Computation: <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9908043.pdf</a><p>* [2] <a href="https://blogs.oracle.com/dcb/entry/zfs_boils_the_ocean_consumes" rel="nofollow">https://blogs.oracle.com/dcb/entry/zfs_boils_the_ocean_consu...</a>