Just a heads-up, this is an April Fools joke.<p>While I don't mind a clever April Fools joke, I do wish that things were clearly marked as such afterwards.<p>Living in Australia it means at least 48-72 hours of "Oh, right, it's an April Fools joke" as the timezones pass.
Now that we've discovered that, I'm afraid the entity running the simulation just thinks "13.8 billion years before it happened", hits Ctrl-C and restarts with different initial conditions.
<i>The artifact is as an additional component of every operation that is unaffected by the magnitude of the variables being operated upon and is irrelevant within the simulated reality until a maximum variable size is observed.</i><p>I don't think that's a good description of the speed of light. Lorentz contraction kicks in well before the limit.