Is time a simulation?

A while ago, space.com posed the question; "Is Our Universe A Fake?". In that question it already puts "our" universe next to others, like it has to be plural. Anyhow, the question doesn't really get answered by any of the 'experts' questioned in the article, they're merely hypothesizing. Something amiss in all views, if you ask me; That UK Astronomer (Martin Rees) misses the fact that if our universe as a whole would be a simulation, the time-factor could be as well. Or at least our experience of space and time would be, so those 5 billion years are only that long in this sim, not for the controlling entity. But then again, if we would be (part of) a sim of some other advanced being, why would that being even want to make one or even have reasons or motives to remain in existence? I think that final question, "why is there something instead of nothing?", and the simple fact that we can bring our minds to ask ourselves that question is proof we're not a sim of another being that would ask itself that question, because that would be a boring endeavor. That superior being would -no doubt-…

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