New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s ...

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 ...

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

Using the exact kind of reasoning a simulation would use to hide that it’s a simulation. Disclaimer: This article is based on ...

In their study, they identified what they called "Godelian truths", truths that cannot be defined by any algorithm or fixed ...

Argonne National Laboratory researchers have been nominated for the Gordon Bell Prize in supercomputing for conducting the ...

The Frontier supercomputer's calculations provide a new foundation for simulating the universe's conventional physics, but also the enigmatic behaviors and properties of dark matter. Reading time 3 ...

A mathematical proof has finally debunked the idea that we live in a simulation, according to a group of international researchers. The theory that the universe could be a computer programme has been ...

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 ...