If true (and it’s a pretty big “if”), Vopson’s new gravitational study would shake the foundations of the currently accepted view of the universe. In his paper, Vopson writes that his new work could ...

…Using the exact kind of reasoning a simulation would use to hide that it’s a simulation. Disclaimer: This article is based on actual news from the real world – honestly! However, it has been ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Before we begin, let's acknowledge that the question, Is this life a simulation? Or, more simply, Is this life real? Is one that has echoed through human history. Philosophers, scientists, religious ...

Ever since Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed his simulation argument in 2001, the nerdiverse has attempted to assess the possibility that reality is not really real, that what we experience as ...

Unless you, dear reader, are a web-scraping software bot quietly pulling this text into a data-hungry LLM, you’re probably a human. And though you’ve likely never seen me in person, you have good ...