Scientists using Google’s quantum processor have taken a major step toward unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe.

Researchers used Google’s quantum processor to simulate fundamental physics, offering a new way to study the universe’s basic forces and particles. The fundamental forces that shape our universe are ...

It is a notion that seems like science fiction—but one that is based in physics and evidence that the universe appears to be operating suspiciously like a computer simulation.

But assuming the universe is finite, the team argues that since the resources of potential simulators would have to be finite, “a volume containing a simulation will be finite and a lattice ...

IDEAS What’s it like to believe we live inside a video game? For the entrepreneur Rizwan Virk, the idea that the universe is an elaborate computer simulation is more than a geeky thought ...