Do we live in a computer simulation like in The Matrix? My proposed new law of physics suggests so Some scientists suggest that if our reality is a simulation there may be glitches within the ...

Philosophers, film fans and the chemically relaxed have regularly suggested over the decades that our universe might be a computer simulation. In recent years scientists have announced that it ...

A zoomed in, computer-generated simulation of the distribution of dark matter in the universe, also referred to as the "cosmic web." The small, spherical blobs of dark matter scattered throughout ...

Perhaps we should hope we're living in a computer simulation. Existing in a digital reality may mean the world won't fall to some terrible demise, like humans suddenly going extinct or tech ...

The posthuman future has never been easier to imagine—especially for those, like Musk, who work at the forefront of technology. Yet the idea that we are living in a kind of time loop adds a ...

The simulation hypothesis, which was famously probed in the 1999 film The Matrix, is the subject of a new book by Rizwan Virk, a computer scientist and video game developer who leads Play Labs at MIT.

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 ...

If the average amount of information conveyed by an event is always decreasing, it could mean we live in a computer program.