A physicist has mounted one of the most detailed technical challenges yet against the idea that our universe is a computer simulation, arguing that the energy required to run such a program would ...

The idea that reality might be a computer simulation has moved from philosophical thought to scientific discussion. Advances ...

Create industry-driven partnerships with universities and DOE’s national laboratories, home to some of the world’s most advanced supercomputers. Support long-term development of simulation-based ...

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 ...

The notion that we live as characters in someone else’s video game is irresistible to many, even outside of science fiction bookshelves. Googling the term “simulation hypothesis” returns numerous ...