Does benford's law indicate that we exist in a simulation?

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Since the Newcomb-Benford law applies to so much more than tax returns, could it be a hint that this is all a simulation?
I'm not great with math, so I wondered if anyone else has considered this or debunked it already?
I tried an online search but didn't find any relevant responses on any of the first 8 pages of results. (Which triggers the paranoid thought that I am in a simulation and am being blocked from this avenue of research.)
Thank you for your thoughts on the matter.

relating to simulated universe, what some folk say-

*In physics’ famous double-slit experiment, electrons are fired at a photosensitive screen through slits in a copper plate, usually producing an interference pattern that indicates wavelike behavior. But when the same experiment is conducted under observation, electrons behave like particles, not waves, and there’s no interference pattern. Some have taken this to mean our simulation is conserving its resources and rendering certain things only when it knows we’re looking at them.

*In 2017, a multidisciplinary group of researchers at the University of Washington proved that they could embed malicious computer code into physical strands of DNA. Their aim was to show that computers working in gene sequencing were vulnerable to attack. But they may also have inadvertently revealed that what we perceive to be biological reality was in fact computer code all along.

*According to simulation believers, we may have already found the pixel-sized building block of the universe: the Planck-length, the point at which our concepts of gravity and spacetime no longer apply. If our world is simulated, the Planck-length would be equivalent to one bit of information, or a pixel.

(clicky)Seemingly not-crazy theoretical physicist James Gates claims he has identified what appears to be actual computer code embedded in the equations of string theory that describe the fundamental particles of our universe. He says he found “error-correcting codes — they’re what make [web] browsers work. So why were they in the equation I was studying about quarks and electrons and supersymmetry?”

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Thank you, auntblabby, for your mind-blowing reply.
I'll read the article you linked to there.

I read the article about the debate whether we live in a simulation, then I pursued more information about James Gates' theories.
I went down the rabbit hole.
Did you know that there are error-correcting codes in genetics?
How far down does it go?

Ai ai, auntblabby, it's so much to consider! If it is a simulation, I think it's gotten out of hand. We could all do a sit down strike until the programmers fix certain conditions.

Thank you, Pepe. It's a way of distracting myself from all the drama happening these days. If it were a simulation, at least I could look forward to a reboot.

Pepe

Nope, not an Aussie, but fond of peeps from Down Under.

auntblabby, I'm curious.
When were there reboots, in your opinion?
Like the Big Bang?
Or the mass extinctions (i.e. the Cretaceous Tertiary)?

the hindus think we live in a cyclic universe that recycles itself every so often, on time scales beyond human comprehension. then there are mini-reboots such as periodic die-offs of the human population in places. major wars are a form of reboot.

I'd heard about the cyclic universe, but hadn't considered wars. Also, this coronavirus Covid-19 is perhaps like a reboot.