The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has shifted from late-night dorm debate to a live question in physics and philosophy. A growing body of work now treats the “simulation ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers say it's impossible to use algorithmic computation to generate everything in our universe. The possibility that our ...

In this week's It’s Debatable article, Rick Rosen and Charles Moster debate whether we're all living in a computer simulation like the Matrix. Rosen retired as a professor from the Texas Tech ...

Anyone who’s a fan of ‘The Matrix’ might wonder whether what we see is, in fact, reality. If you get an overwhelming feeling of déjà vu, don’t panic—an Agent will soon be with you.

Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which we’re all the characters.