A new study suggests that, at least mathematically speaking, the idea doesn’t hold up, as some facets of reality can’t be ...

A new physics study challenges the simulation hypothesis, arguing that the universe contains realities that can likely never ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season two episode of The Twilight Zone (2019), ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

In their study, they identified what they called "Godelian truths", truths that cannot be defined by any algorithm or fixed ...

A new study by University of British Columbia Okanagan researchers has debunked the controversial idea that we are all living in a simulated reality. The concept was a main focus of the Matrix movies ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil deGrasse Tyson, was deemed to be un-testable in philosophy and science and often ...

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Many people are ...

There’s a new creation story going around. In the beginning, someone booted up a computer. Everything we see around us reflects states of that computer. We are artificial intelligences living in an ...

The universe is full of fascinating physics that have been experimentally confirmed but are still far from fully explained. In an unpublished paper, circa 2018, titled The P2P Simulation Hypothesis ...