It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Up until now, the simulation hypothesis, which has occasionally received backing from the likes of Elon Musk and Neil ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

Two decades ago, the mathematician Moon Duchin spent her summers teaching geometry at Mathcamp, a program for mathematically talented teens. Campers contemplated notions such as how to prove whether a ...

A new study by University of British Columbia Okanagan researchers has debunked the controversial idea that we are all living ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

A team of physicists led by Mir Faizal argues the universe cannot be simulated, saying reality includes non-computable truths beyond any algorithm or AI model ...

On July 4, 2012, researchers at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in Switzerland announced with great fanfare that they had ...

Narrow monopolies can be the best way to accelerate specific technologies, but AI is not like other technologies. It's an all-encompassing transformation that touches every aspect of human activity.

As AI—and the ethical debate surrounding it—accelerates, scientists argue that understanding consciousness is now more urgent ...