The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer ...

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

How certain are you that the world around you — as you perceive it — both exists and is quote-unquote real? Nothing in your subjective experience can validate this belief. Elon Musk, on Wednesday, ...

Philosopher Nick Bostrom’s famous Simulation Argument suggests it’s highly probable that we live inside a supercomputer. But one philosopher takes this hypothesis to task, arguing in a new paper that ...

A team of physicists claims to have killed the simulation hypothesis with math. According to Science Daily, researchers led ...

In this year’s Code Conference by Recode, Elon Musk, the CEO of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, was asked by journalist Josh Topolsky about whether he has considered the idea that we might be merely existing ...

Bad news, simulation theorists — if this decorated philosopher and theoretical physicist is to be believed, we may be responsible for our world and its outcomes after all. “It’s way too convenient to ...

Good news, everyone: According to new physics research, reality is probably not a quantum computer simulation designed by a hyper-advanced alien civilization. Takes a load off, doesn’t it? To back up: ...

Relax, conspiracy theorists — the creator and showrunner of upcoming Fox A.I. series “neXt” does not believe we are all living in a simulation. “I don’t think so. I really don’t,” Coto told TheWrap on ...

But the argument does no such thing. Bostrom is very open to the possibility that simulations are physically impossible; this is one reason that a simulation may never be created and why Bostrom’s ...