If you've heard of simulation theory -- the idea that our entire universe could be running inside of some sort of extra-dimensional computer -- there's a good chance you encountered it from a high ...

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: ...

What if reality is not reality at all, but a simulation so advanced that no one inside it could ever tell the difference?

A woman tries out a virtual reality headset in Nairobi in January. David Chalmers suggests that virtual worlds may outnumber real ones, making it likely that we live in a simulation. (Simon ...

Experimental findings will be either boring or extremely dangerous. By Preston Greene Dr. Greene is a philosophy professor. Since the 1990s, researchers in the social and natural sciences have used ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals, and now dueling teams of researchers are claiming they finally have the ...

Have you ever wondered if you’re just a character in some elaborate simulation? You shake the thought off because you’re a real person, living a real-life, in a concrete reality. But can you be ...

I couldn’t imagine that there would be a better year than 1999 for simulation-related entertainment. I was wrong. Many TV shows have flirted with the idea over the past few years (episodes of ...

Australian Catholic University provides funding as a member of The Conversation AU. I’m going to interpret your question in a slightly different way. Let’s assume these extraterrestrial beings have a ...