The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...

For more than two decades, some scientists have pondered the possibility that life as we know is actually an unfathomably complex simulation. While some suggest looking for “glitches” to find evidence ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

A simulated tour at Metaverse Fashion Week in March 2022 hosted by Decentraland, a 3D virtual world platform. (Vittorio Zunino Celotto / Getty Images) There’s a new creation story going around. In the ...

(The Conversation) — In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...

If you've ever caught yourself wondering whether we are living in a simulation, well, this selection of images might make you ...

Physicists have long struggled to explain why the universe started with conditions suitable for life to evolve. Why do the physical laws and constants take the very specific values that allow stars, ...