Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

Do We Live In a Simulation? Gauging whether or not we dwell inside someone else’s computer may come down to advanced AI research—or measurements at the frontiers of cosmology. As boomers are forced ...

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Darth Vader does not say “Luke, I am your father” in The Empire Strikes Back. The ghosts in Field of Dreams do not command “If you build it, they will come.” Forrest Gump’s iconic line is not “Life is ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

“The Matrix” turns 25 this year. The film, released in 1999 and starring Keanu Reeves, was, in many ways, ahead of its time. The special effects and choreographed martial arts changed how Hollywood ...

Elon Musk, mega-rich CEO of SpaceX and Tesla, outlined his argument for why it is overwhelmingly likely that we are actually all living in an advanced civilization’s computer simulation and why that’s ...

What if we're just puppets in a vast simulation? At least, that's what one physicist thinks he's proved. From The Matrix to Elon Musk, the idea that the universe in which we live is nothing more than ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...