Abstract R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in ...

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate ...

Swedish Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s simulation argument says we might be living in a computer-generated reality. Maybe he’s right. There currently exists no known method by which we could ...

A decade ago, a British philosopher put forth the possibility that our universe might be a computer simulation run by our descendants. Now, physicists have come up with a potential test to see if ...

Recent progress on both analog and digital simulations of quantum fields foreshadows a future in which quantum computers ...

As you can see, the thought is that a computer simulation can show the potential results of different treatment options. Sounds easy to build?

In order for a computer to simulate reality, then, the machine would need to have enough power to actually create the phenomena that we experience within its simulated environment.

VIRTUAL UNIVERSE In a snapshot from the Illustris computer simulation of the universe, galaxies (pink) cluster along filaments of dark matter (blue). Shown is the most massive cluster in the ...

If you, me and every person and thing in the cosmos were actually characters in some giant computer game, we would not necessarily know it. The idea that the universe is a simulation sounds more ...

Unlike the real-world hypothesis, the simulation hypothesis assumes that there is a computer simulation that is generating your experiences. Who produced the computer simulation that you are ...

Antifreeze proteins (AFPs) function as inhibitors of ice growth. Computer simulation studies have contributed to the understanding of the molecular-scale mechanism of ice growth inhibition by AFPs ...