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Researchers mathematically proved that we are living in a simulation. They introduced a brand-new law of nature called the Second Law of Infodynamics. For decades, we relied on the Second Law of Thermodynamics, which states that physical systems always decay into chaos and maximum entropy over time. But infodynamics looks at information, not energy. And it does the exact opposite. The math proves that the information entropy of systems must decrease or remain constant over time, constantly optimizing and minimizing its data. Think about what that means. Every physical system in our universe, from digital storage and atomic structures to genetic mutations in biological DNA, automatically compresses its data. Nature is constantly finding the lowest-complexity information state. Why does that matter? Because data compression is not a law of raw physics. It is a law of computation. A universe as massive and complex as ours would require infinite processing power to render down to every single particle. Unless it has a built-in optimization engine. Just like a video game developer writing code to render only what the player is looking at, a simulated universe would require a constant, underlying data-compression mechanism to keep from crashing its servers. That exact data compression mechanism is what this paper just mathematically identified observing us.