Few scientific ideas have leapt from philosophy seminars to dinner-table debates as quickly as the claim that our universe might be an artificial construct. The simulation hypothesis promises a ...

Mathematical simulation is a computational method that uses formal mathematical models—such as systems of differential equations, stochastic processes, or optimization formulations—to numerically ...

El Capitan, the world’s fastest supercomputer, is allowing scientists to explore physical systems in ways that weren’t previously possible, according to an article from Lawrence Livermore National ...