Gravity May Be Key Evidence That Our Universe Is a Simulation, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests

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 ...
SFGate

‘Simulation theory’ brings an AI twist out of ‘The Matrix’ to ideas mystics and religious scholars have voiced for centuries

(THE CONVERSATION) In the most talked-about film from the final year of the 20th century, “The Matrix,” a computer hacker named Neo finds that the world he lives and works in isn’t real. It’s a ...
The Hoya

Who’s Afraid of a Little AI? Revisiting ‘The Matrix’ in 2024

Do we live in a simulation? Philosopher Nick Bostrom proposed the “Simulation Hypothesis” in 2001, arguing that humanity could live in a constructed universe run by a computer simulation that ...
Ars Technica

Could our Universe be a simulation? How would we even tell?

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 ...