A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.

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Physicists have spent decades arguing over whether our universe is a fundamental reality or a kind of cosmic software, and ...

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After decades of steady progress, computational astrophysicists have reached a major turning point in black hole research. A new study presents the ...