Have you ever felt like something about reality just doesn’t add up? That strange sense of déjà vu, those impossible coincidences, or the eerie feeling that you’re being watched by unseen eyes? What ...

The reality we understand and interact with daily might, according to some scientists, be nothing more than an elaborate simulation. This hypothesis, intriguing as it may be, is supported by various ...

If you’re interested in VR, you’ve probably thought at least once or twice about the simulation hypothesis—the idea that we might actually already be living in a virtual reality world. Many people are ...

Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? Could you live 54 million lifetimes by spending each minute in a simulated life?

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What if gravity, the force that holds your feet to the ground and binds galaxies together, is much more than a fundamental law of nature? What if it’s actually the smoking-gun clue that suggests ...

This series of Playable Futures articles considers how the design, technology, people, and theory of video games are informing and influencing the wider world. For this series' final entry, we're ...

Conspiracy theories are nothing new on TikTok, and another one of them has gone viral, offering alleged proof we are all living in a simulated universe created and controlled by some unknown power we ...

I’m going to interpret your question in a slightly different way. Let’s assume these extraterrestrial beings have a computer on which our universe is being “simulated”. Simulated worlds are pretend ...