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), ...

Researchers say they've proven that the fundamental nature of reality simply cannot be simulated on any computer.

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

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

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

Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...

The odds suggest humans are almost certainly living in a simulation, according to Nick Bostrom’s simulation trilemma and ...

The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.

New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

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 ...