Multiverse and Simulation Hypothesis - A (Seeming) Paradox

Hello Readers,

The more I think about the simulation hypothesis the more intriguing possibilities come to my mind. One of them is the apparent paradox between the simulation hypothesis and the multiverse theory. The idea stems from s simple thought, for creating such an elaborate simulation the computational power required will be astronomically (pun intended) high, therefore, anyone creating such a simulation would go for creating only 'one' simulation. However, the one creating this simulation will be outside the simulation or will be in a different universe which ultimately proves the multiverse theory. 

Now let's dive a little deeper in this chain of thoughts. In 2017, Zohar Ringel and Dmitry Kovrizhi published a paper which shows that just storing information about a couple of hundred electrons would require a computer memory that would physically require more atoms than exist in the universe. This paper also argues that the complexity of such a simulation grows exponentially with every particle added to the simulation. This essentially makes any such simulation unworkable, not just practically but in principle as well. 

This really steals the thunder from the whole idea of the simulated reality as we have discussed in previous articles. But, one thing I have learned over the years from the forefathers of science is never say never. One glaring example is of Lord Kelvin who famously quoted in 1902, "No balloon and no aeroplane will ever be practically successful" and just 4 years later the Wright brothers were making giant strides in the field which eventually took the mankind to the moon. On the side note, contrary to the common belief, Lord Kelvin never predicted the so called "death of physics".

On the similar lines, I dare to disagree with Ringel and Kovrizhi partially for the sake of argument. Let's assume some other advanced civilization makes sufficient progress in computation and achieves a simulation of an entire universe, the energy required for this gargantuan task would be so large that it "seems" impossible to simulate such multiple simulations (Here, I am a little shaky, I have not found any notable references on how much energy would be required for such a task).

In essense, any civilization which is technologically advanced enough to work up such a simulation will have limitations of energy to run such a simulation and will not create multiple simulations. However, to create a simulation that civilization has to be out of the simulation which would be the 'other' universe, hence proving the multiverse hypothesis. 

To sum up, this seems to be a paradox to me but I am sure there will be some logical solution to this. I would love to discuss more on this if you readers would like to get in touch with me. 

Cheers,

Maximilian