In Metaverse scapes(virtual spaces) don't need to follow laws of the observable universe and can be arbitrary. This comes in handy for Truth Miners - citizens that immerse themselves into self-developed scapes in order to construct alternative models of the universe and its laws, allowing creating new theories that could be tested by physicists and experimentalists in the physical scape. Laws of nature can be drastically different from what humans used to see in their daily life, for example, objects can exist in more than 3 dimensions, light particles(photons) can behave differently in these new scapes with additional dimensions.
"In the Truth Mines, the tags weren’t just references; they included complete statements of the particular definitions, axioms, or theorems the objects represented. The Mines were self-contained: every mathematical result that fleshers and their descendants had ever proven was on display in its entirety"
From "Diaspora" by Greg Egan
Medium: 3D GLB