A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia Okanagan have published a mathematical argument that, they say, rules out ...

Some things you can see directly, like your fingers. Other things, like your chin, you need a mirror or a camera to see.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Could the Earth and everything on it – and even the whole universe – be a simulation running on a giant computer? OsakaWayne ...

In the 4 th century BC, the Greek philosopher Plato theorised that humans do not perceive the world as it really is. All we can see is shadows on a wall. In 2003, the Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom ...

Computer code appears during an immersive reality screening of the 1999 movie 'The Matrix,' held in Inglewood, Calif., on May 28, 2025. Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images In the most talked-about ...

What if everything we know about the world is just a simulation? This thought-provoking question has been at the center of the Simulation Theory, a concept that has become increasingly popular in ...

(The Conversation) — In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...