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

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it’s not because of a ...

Using the exact kind of reasoning a simulation would use to hide that it’s a simulation. Disclaimer: This article is based on ...

A new study suggests that it is mathematically impossible for the universe to be an ultra-sophisticated computer-generated simulation. The study, ...

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It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

When scientists push the limits of the world's most powerful supercomputers, they often find those limits are just the beginning of what's possible. In early November, the Department of Energy's ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

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The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...