30 times glitches in the Matrix got real and blew our minds

To repeat them, and generate a perfect facsimile of reality down to the last atom, would take more energy than the universe has. “The computer would have to be bigger than the universe, and time would tick more slowly in the program than in reality,” says Lloyd. “So why even bother building it?” But others soon realized that making an imperfect copy of the universe that’s just good enough to fool its inhabitants would take far less computational power.