A question that has vexed physicists for the past century may finally have a solution – but perhaps not the one everyone was hoping for. In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia has shown that there is no universal "Theory of Everything" that neatly reconciles general relativity with quantum mechanics – at least, not an algorithmic one. A natural consequence of this is that the Universe can't be a simulation ,