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

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 ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum ...

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The odds suggest humans are almost certainly living in a simulation, according to Nick Bostrom’s simulation trilemma and ...

What is this, 2013? The Miami Heat don't have Dwyane Wade on their roster. Nor LeBron James. Nor Chris Bosh. Nor even Jimmy Butler. And yet, some computer simu ...

Some people fear we humans are nothing more than pickled brains floating in a glass bowl as we’re fed a false version of reality through a bundle of wires. Now a team of scientists at Oxford ...

Imagine you are a newly promoted principal, replacing a principal who’d left the job after only one year. Right before your first staff meeting you are confronted with a challenge with which you have ...

Elon Musk and others find it plausible that our experiences result from events in a computer simulation, just like the characters in the Matrix movies. An alternative view, supported by both common ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Edward Segal covers crisis-related news, topics, and issues. Like pilots, some business executives are using computer simulations ...

What if we are merely part of an experiment by an advanced civilization? To the Editor: Re “Are We Living in a Computer Simulation?,” by Preston Greene (Sunday Review, Aug. 11): Let me get this ...