The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Using the Helios-1 quantum computer, researchers have used a record-breaking number of error-proof qubits to run the first and biggest quantum simulation of a model for perfect conductivity ...

R is an open-source programming language and environment with powerful and extensive features for data analysis, data visualization, and statistical computing. Although R first appeared in the 1990s, ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality ...

What if the classic late 90s sci-fi flick The Matrix actually had it right? What if we're all just living inside of a computer simulation? That's the idea behind a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom, a ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

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 ...

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature—one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose ...

Wesley Wildman is Executive Director of the Non-Profit Research Institute, the Center for Mind and Culture, Inc. (CMAC), which conducts the Modeling Religion Project. CMAC has received funding from ...