For years, the idea that reality might be a sophisticated computer program has drifted from late-night dorm debates into ...

Scientists made a twin version of our universe, showing the evolution of all forms of matter and energy, in the biggest cosmological computer simulation to date. When you purchase through links on our ...

The world's second fastest supercomputer — it used to be the fastest, before its rival machine came online earlier this month — has created the most complex computer simulation of the universe to date ...

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 ...

One of the largest-ever computer models explores dark matter and dark energy, 2 cosmic constituents that remain a mystery LOS ALAMOS, NM, Oct. 26 — Understanding dark energy is the number one issue in ...

Astronomers have carried out the biggest ever computer simulations from the Big Bang to the present day to investigate how the Universe evolved. The FLAMINGO simulations calculate the evolution of all ...

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The Bolshoi supercomputer simulation, the most accurate and detailed large cosmological simulation run to date, gives physicists and astronomers a powerful new tool for understanding such cosmic ...

A projection through a 130 million light years thick slice through a simulation of a cubic volume of 9,132 million light years on a side. The luminosity of the background image gives the cold dark ...