In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that ...

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

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 ...

The concept that we are all computer-generated characters occupying a world as real as the ones gamers explore on their PlayStation consoles isn't exactly a new one. As far back as 1999, Morpheus was ...

According to Dr. Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor at UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, and his international ...

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 ...

Dr Melvin Vopson published the research in AIP Advances which suggests that the universe behaves just like a computer, ordering and deleting unnecessary information. The simulation hypothesis isn’t a ...

A research team at the Jülich Supercomputing Center, together with experts from NVIDIA, has set a new record in quantum ...

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A breach of the Herbert Hoover Dike would almost certainly rank as a catastrophe — but the scope and scale of loss would vary widely depending on where and when it burst and how much water was in Lake ...

Although many functions have been ascribed to the cerebellum, the uniformity of its synaptic organization suggests that a single, characteristic computation may be common to all. Computer simulations ...