[smaddox]

Exponential slowdowns at each level ruin this hypothesis.

[geenkeuse]

The documents I copied are not as sharp as the original, so the photocopier must not exist.

[smaddox]

Photocopying has little to do with simulation of the physical world.

First of all, Bits != Q-bits. You can clone bits. You can't clone Q-bits: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-cloning_theorem

Second, photocopies are static. The physical world is not static.