An experiment seeks to confirm the "fifth state of matter in the universe" and suggests we live in a simulation. This discovery would potentially change physics as we know it. Dr. Melvin Vopson, a ...

Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and the debate has just taken a sharp turn. A group of researchers now say they ...

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 ...

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 ...

For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into mainstream culture and serious philosophy. Now a new wave of theoretical work ...

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) has launched a new computing platform that ...

The experiment (bacterial colony and amino acid measurements by means of mass spectrometry imaging, left) corresponds to computer simulations (right): Cooperative bacteria are shown in red, ...

Desired circular short-time attractor showing cells accumulated on a ring (left) and the corresponding myosin distribution (right) in a living chick embryo. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not ...