This idea was once thought to lie beyond the reach of scientific inquiry,” said physicist Mir Faizal of the University of ...

What if the classic late 90s sci-fi flick The Matrix actually had it right? What if we're all just living inside of a computer simulation? That's the idea behind a 2003 paper by Nick Bostrom, a ...

It’s a short question, but a colossal one. A question that has been pondered by the greatest philosophical minds in human history: Plato, Hegel, Descartes, various extremely committed Redditors ...

A new study has suggested that the idea of our universe being a simulation does not hold up at all, and it’s not because of a lack of imagination. The theory that our lived experience is actually a ...

Random matrix theory (RMT) has emerged as a powerful framework for analysing complex systems across physics, statistics and beyond, by examining the statistical properties of matrices with random ...

KALAMAZOO—A noted scholar from Rice University will examine how matrix theory can uncover obscure relationships among members of a social network when he speaks later this month at Western Michigan ...

Scientists are exploring a mysterious pattern, found in birds’ eyes, boxes of marbles and other surprising places, that is neither regular nor random. All complex correlated systems, from Arctic melt ...