For decades, many scientists and philosophers have been trying to find out a billion-dollar question: Do humans live in a simulated universe? Is the reality we are witnessing real? The ...

Gravity used to be the most down-to-earth of ideas, the thing that kept apples falling and planets in line. Now a growing group of physicists is treating it as a possible glitch report from the fabric ...

An experiment seeks to confirm the "fifth state of matter in the universe" and suggests we live in a simulation. This discovery would potentially change physics as we know it. Dr. Melvin Vopson, a ...

George Hotz, a self-driving car developer and famous hacker, is the latest tech celebrity to suggest that our universe may be a simulation built by some society more advanced than our own. “There’s no ...

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 ...

Our readers – simulated or otherwise – continue to tackle this thorny issue, invoking the possibility of higher dimensions to explain how such a complex simulation could exist Some previous answers ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

Is this reality, or just something that feels real? Simulation Theory argues that our universe behaves exactly like a programmed environment — and the deeper we look, the more the evidence stacks up.

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...