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Mathematics vs the Matrix: Why “simulation” hits a logic wall

What would it take to turn the entire cosmos into software-down to the rules that generate space and time? For decades, the simulation hypothesis has resided comfortably in the gap between philosophy ...
The idea that reality might be a kind of cosmic software has moved from late night dorm debates into serious physics journals ...
While studying salmon populations and designing amusement parks, these students are breaking barriers to advanced math that ...
A new research paper reframes the simulation hypothesis, asking whether reality could be simulated and what science can test.
Quantum information theory is a field of study that examines how quantum technologies store and process information. Over the past decades, researchers have introduced several new quantum information ...
Nearly half of Alberta’s Grade 6 students failed the provincewide math test in 2024, three years after the province started rolling out its new elementary school curriculum. Only 53 per cent of ...
For many students, mathematics feels less like a subject and more like a verdict, you’re either “good at it” or you’re not. There’s no escape from maths in school, and for some, every class brings a ...
For many of us, the subject didn’t start that way. It arrived with tests, formulas, and the pressure to get every answer right. Math itself isn’t born frightening; it becomes so with drills and ...
Mathematics is, at its core, an art. Like painters, musicians or writers, mathematicians create and explore new worlds. They test, and then push past, the limits of their imagination. They engage with ...