It might seem obvious that the world around us is real. Yet as computers have become ever more powerful, it seems increasingly possible that everything we experience could be nothing more than code ...

Some of the world's leading physicists believe there is a genuine possibility that our entire reality is a computer program ...

Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the dreams of science fiction enthusiasts when he began to study the limits of ...

Turns out we’re not all watching the same version of the world unfold, just continuously updating our own personal ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

It’s a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced civilization’s supercomputer. But new research from UBC Okanagan has mathematically ...

Are we living in “The Matrix” in real life? In the 1999 science-fiction film, Neo discovers that the universe is a simulation — but one scientist believes that the idea isn’t all fiction. Dr. Melvin ...

This feature is only available to members. Join now for full online access. It might be human nature, especially for those who don’t look to religion for answers, to try to come up with a theory of ...