For more than two decades, some scientists have pondered the possibility that life as we know is actually an unfathomably complex simulation. While some suggest looking for “glitches” to find evidence ...

and would likely need rigorous proof for the scientific community at large to seriously consider this theory. In the 1999 film The Matrix, Thomas Anderson (a.k.a. Neo) discovers a truth to end all ...

If you feel like you're living in a convincing virtual reality akin to The Matrix, a scientist thinks you may well be right. Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of ...

Some previous answers offering evidence for the notion we aren’t living in a vast simulation relied heavily on the word “vast”. The complexity of our universe suggests we aren’t in a simulation run by ...

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big ...