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

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and the debate has just taken a sharp turn. A group of researchers now say they ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season two episode of The Twilight Zone (2019), “Downtime.” As our real-world ...

Dr. Vopson argues that we’re living in a simulation because the mathematics behind how the universe functions doesn’t match ...

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 ...

A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

Le journal de l'astronomie et de l'espace is a web publication of the Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie de Paris (universcience.fr). It features astronomy news, in-depth articles and films to help ...