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

The natural complexity of the universe should phase out the possibility of some advanced civilization controlling reality itself, researchers argue.

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The long-debated idea that we might all be living in a computer simulation—popularized by science fiction films like The Matrix—has taken a major hit.