Quantum mechanics has at last been formulated exclusively with real numbers, bringing a mathematical puzzle at the heart of ...

The proof, known to be so hard that a mathematician once offered 10 martinis to whoever could figure it out, uses number ...

In a new, detailed breakdown of current theory, a team of physicists led by Mir Faizal of the University of British Columbia ...

The possibility that our entire universe merely exists inside a computer simulation is more than an idle science fiction ...

Nature Research Intelligence Topics Topic summaries Mathematical Sciences Mathematical Physics Mathematical Aspects of Classical Mechanics, Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information Theory Over the ...

The uncertainty inherent to quantum mechanics has long left physicists wondering whether the observations we make on the ...

For obvious reasons, we do not know what the inside of a black hole looks like. But thanks to theoretical physics, we can ask ...

It's a plot device beloved by science fiction: our entire universe might be a simulation running on some advanced ...

Spoiler: You are not living in a simulation. Advanced simulations have been the subject of fiction from The Matrix to the ...

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In their study, they identified what they called "Godelian truths", truths that cannot be defined by any algorithm or fixed ...

Modern multiverse fiction incorporates real physics equations and string theory principles rather than relying on pure ...