This work attempts to draw out the presence of a simulation by looking for tiny violations of known/expected symmetries, which is always worth doing. We should note, however, that an excellent simulation could exactly cover its tracks, lest the underlying architecture cause unintended artifacts.
From a CS perspective, the simulation's developer might create unit tests that guarantee the preservation of symmetries.
A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. There are experimentalists (like me) just waiting for such guidance. John Bell's theorem [1] was/is a shining guidestar for physics.
This work attempts to draw out the presence of a simulation by looking for tiny violations of known/expected symmetries, which is always worth doing. We should note, however, that an excellent simulation could exactly cover its tracks, lest the underlying architecture cause unintended artifacts.
From a CS perspective, the simulation's developer might create unit tests that guarantee the preservation of symmetries.
A theorist who develops an experimental test that could prove we do not live in a simulation should be lauded. There are experimentalists (like me) just waiting for such guidance. John Bell's theorem [1] was/is a shining guidestar for physics.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem