New multidisciplinary research in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology has led to the development of a more accurate computer code to study the early universe.

The hypothesis that the "universe is a computer simulation" has long since moved from the ... is the reality we perceive ...

'The universe evolves in a way that the information content in it is compressed, optimized and organized – just as computers and computer code do,' he told MailOnline.

'The universe evolves in a way that the information content in it is compressed, optimized and organized – just as computers and computer code do,' he told MailOnline.

Suppose the law of gravity is simply a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.

They aimed to create a proxy of the cosmos, a Cliffs Notes version in computer code that could run in months instead of giga-years, to serve as a laboratory for studying the real universe.

This series shows the universe at the present time as modeled by the Millennium Simulation. Each panel zooms in 2 times to a cluster of galaxies. The scale difference between the first and last ...

And then, we can shift our inquiry from “Is the universe a computer simulation?” to “Can we model the universe as a computer simulation?” These are two very different questions.

But Wolfram believes that simple computer models can reveal complex patterns in nature. It's conceivable, for example, that a simple program could reveal how the universe works.