What if the classic late 90s sci-fi flick The Matrix actually had it right? What if we're all just living inside of a computer simulation? That's the idea behind a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom, a ...

“There’s a one in a billion chance that this is reality.” – Elon Musk There is a growing school of thought in the scientific community that we are all living inside a computer simulation designed by a ...

A team of international physicists has delivered a striking challenge to one of the most provocative ideas in modern science: ...

The simulated universe theory implies that our universe, with all its galaxies, planets and life forms, is a meticulously programmed computer simulation. In this scenario, the physical laws governing ...

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

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If we’re all living inside a complex computer simulation, we should probably accept our fate — lest our universe get unplugged. Greene invokes the idea of a double-blind clinical trial, the gold ...

“Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?” Those aren’t just lines from “Bohemian Rhapsody,” but a serious question for many. And, as Frenkel also noted, scientists have detected small anomalies ...

Some people fear we humans are nothing more than pickled brains floating in a glass bowl as we’re fed a false version of reality through a bundle of wires. Now a team of scientists at Oxford ...