Comment by outworlder

> The proton is a quantum mechanical object that exists as a haze of probabilities until an experiment forces it to take a concrete form

I don't necessarily subscribe to the 'simulation' viewpoint, but that sounds exactly how some lazy evaluation/procedural generation system would work. Don't need to compute values until they are needed. Just like atomic orbitals.

Add that to all the quantization we have discovered in nature, the speed of light limit (which is also the speed at which information can be transmitted), the time dilation effects with speed... and that provides plenty of food for thought.