Physicist Mir Faizal, Adjunct Professor with UBC Okanagan’s Irving K. Barber Faculty of Science, was not out to shatter the ...

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

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

A scientific study disproves the idea that the universe is a computer simulation, proving reality cannot be reproduced by algorithms.

In the quest to unravel the mysteries of the universe, physicists are revisiting a 150-year-old theory that could illuminate ...

If recent discoveries that dark energy is evolving hold any water, our Universe will collapse under its own gravity on a ...

Most explanations rely on "dark energy" to explain the Universe's accelerating expansion rate, but a new study takes a different path.

Much like a 3D hologram emerges from the information encoded on a 2D surface, our universe’s 4D space­­time could be a holographic projection of a lower-dimensional reality. Specifically, Maldacena ...

Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Of all the posited answers, experts say the Dark Forest hypothesis seems less likely to be correct. It’s possible that ...