Suppose that’s right. Suppose that sometime in, say, the 31st century, humanity will be able to simulate whatever they want.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A team of physicists has proven that the universe cannot be reduced to a simulation. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC BY-SA 4.0) Physicist ...

Dark energy is a mystery so daunting that it stretches and strains our most robust theories. The universe is expanding, driven by the unknown force that we've named Dark Energy. Dark Energy is also ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the season ...

The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in ...

The mystery of how the first quasars in the universe formed—something that has baffled scientists for nearly 20 years—has now been solved by a team of astrophysicists whose findings are published in ...

It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

Astronomers have released a set of more than a million simulated images showcasing the cosmos “as NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope (“Roman”) will see it,” says the statement from NASA ...

I’ve started making my way (skeptically) through Ray Kurzweil’s How to Create a Mind, and at the recommendation of a friend, I’ve also started keeping tabs on KurzweilAI, a Kurzweil-blessed site ...