The notion that our universe might be a giant simulation has intrigued scientists and philosophers for decades. Recent ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction.

In 2003, University of Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrum first proposed the argument that 'we are almost certainly living in a computer simulation'.

“The hypothesis that we live in a simulation seems provable: it could be the discovery of a flaw in the simulation, such as a distant region of the universe that cannot be zoomed in on, where a ...

IDEAS What’s it like to believe we live inside a video game? For the entrepreneur Rizwan Virk, the idea that the universe is an elaborate computer simulation is more than a geeky thought ...

These ideas don’t prove we’re living in a simulation. However, they do present compelling clues that we live in a simulation. After all, gravity remains one of the biggest mysteries in physics.