The Nobel Prize in Physics Was Just Awarded for Proving the Universe Isn't Locally Real — Einstein Was Wrong | Tom's Deepdives
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
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What if everything you see, feel, and experience isn’t the real world at all, but instead a meticulously rendered simulation? In this episode of Impact Theory with Tom Bilyeu, we dive deep into one of the most mind-bending questions in science and philosophy: Are we living in a simulation? Join Speaker A as they break down the latest Nobel Prize-winning physics experiments that challenge our basic assumptions about reality itself. From the quantum strangeness of the double-slit experiment to the mind-boggling implications of entangled particles, we explore why the universe may operate just like a video game—and what that means for everything you think you know. Get ready to have your understanding of existence turned upside down and discover why the odds that you’re living in “base reality” are vanishingly small.
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| 0:00.0 | The odds that you're living in a simulation border on 100%, meaning this, all of this, |
| 0:06.7 | is almost certainly not real. In October of 2022, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded |
| 0:14.3 | for proving that the universe renders like a video game. The technical phrase is that the universe is not locally real. The existence |
| 0:23.6 | of an object and its position and movement are merely a set of probabilities until something |
| 0:29.6 | in the system observes or interacts with them. Not only does that discovery increase the odds that |
| 0:35.6 | were video game characters living in a simulation? |
| 0:38.5 | It proves that Albert Einstein was wrong. |
| 0:41.0 | And not about a minor detail, about the fundamental nature of reality itself. |
| 0:45.9 | Einstein spent the last 30 years of his life insisting that the universe had to be locally |
| 0:51.9 | real, that objects exist independently. |
| 0:55.0 | They're out there, in the world, knowably. |
| 0:58.0 | Our intuitions tell us that he must be right, that nothing can influence something else telepathically |
| 1:04.0 | across vast distances instantaneously. |
| 1:07.0 | But experimental evidence proves that what Einstein called spooky action at a distance |
| 1:13.3 | actually is true. Reality does not work how we thought it does. And it calls absolutely everything |
| 1:19.4 | into question. Let's dive deep to understand why. Welcome to Part 1, The Real World. To understand |
| 1:26.9 | what this all means, we need to define two words precisely. |
| 1:31.6 | Local and real. Let's start with local. Locality is the assumption that things can only affect |
| 1:38.6 | and be affected by things physically near them. Your coffee cools because the air around it is cooler, not because of |
| 1:45.5 | something that happened in Tokyo, not because of something that happened yesterday or out in the |
| 1:49.8 | vastness of space. Things change because of what is physically adjacent to them right now. |
| 1:55.3 | Information travels at a cost. It requires time and energy to move from one place to another. |
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