We live in a computer simulation?

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Basically what they are trying to do is build a model of the universe, and do some testing with it using light.
Kind of like using a scale model to see how something works.
Much of it seems to me to try to dazzle the reader with jargon instead of breaking it down to what they actually want to do, and what they hope to achieve.

There are huge holes with their premise and methodologies from what little this article explained. Not having read any of their preliminary work, let alone anything like a white paper, I cant really say.