A team of international physicists has delivered a striking challenge to one of the most provocative ideas in modern science: ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into ...

The visible cosmos may contain roughly 6 x 10^80 — or 600 million trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion trillion — bits of information, according to a new estimate. The findings could have ...

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 ...

Is it possible to simulate the entire universe on a computer smaller than the universe? Physics seems to be telling us that it’s possible to simulate the entire universe on a computer smaller than the ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

We take for granted, every day, that what we perceive as "real" is actually reflective of some type of objective reality. That the atoms and molecules composing our bodies actually exist; that the ...

As we approach the end of 2016, a number of people might be wondering whether there's some chance that the past year was just some sort of weird dream. It turns out that if you ask the scientists ...

Grab some popcorn, turn on some Pink Floyd, and prepare to have your mind blown. Astronomers have created the most advanced simulation to date of the evolution of the universe over billions of years.