Now, more than ever, viewers are hard-pressed to find something truly original. Before the influx of extended comic universes, there was The Matrix. Premiering in 1999, the film envisioned a world ...

The simulation hypothesis—the idea that our universe might be an artificial construct running on some advanced alien computer—has long captured the public imagination. Yet most arguments about it rest ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While the idea of modern simulation theory was popularized by The Matrix in 1999, another film released just months after it ...

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 ...