A new research report from physicists at the University of British Columbia claims there’s mathematical proof that there’s some “understanding” in the cosmos that exists beyond any capacity for us to describe or explain it.

They did their study to challenge the premise that our universe is a computer simulation (and, by association, that we are, too) and it involved a lot of complicated math referenced as “Gödelian truths.”

But their conclusion comes across as less the output of a study than the contemplation of St. Aquinas.

What they found is that the fundamental rules that govern spacetime cannot be a part of it, and are therefore not sufficient to have produced it. Space and time are the products of some “non-algorithmic understanding” that lurks more deeply behind anything we can see or know.

They call this realm “Platonic,” but they could just as easily have used the word “God.”

Granted, their intention was to prove or disprove the idea that our reality is the product of a computer, and saw the limitations to that theory arise from the fact that no system that operates based on logic can, well, logically explain itself.

There’s no Great Computer in the sky.

Instead, there’s something more.

It’s an intriguing proposition that wouldn’t have been news for most of the generations of folks who preceded us in this simul…er, reality.