Thomas Anderson – otherwise known as Neo – is walking up a flight of stairs when he sees a black cat shake itself and walk past a doorway. Then the moment seems to replay before his eyes. Just a touch ...
New research from UBC Okanagan mathematically demonstrates that the universe cannot be simulated. Using Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, scientists found that reality requires “non-algorithmic ...
The true nature of our universe as been an open debate for millennia, and recently, scientists and philosophers have pondered whether it might be a hyper-realistic simulation perpetuated by some super ...
Escape artist Harry Houdini is shown before being lowered in a packing crate into the ice-covered Detroit River in 1907. (AP Photo) (1907 AP ) DETROIT – There’s an urban legend that Harry Houdini died ...
On Halloween night in 1936, the tiny, white-haired widow of Harry Houdini made her final attempt to contact him from beyond the grave. Beatrice "Bess" Houdini fell hard in love with the escapologist ...
If such a simulation were possible, the simulated universe could itself give rise to life, which in turn might create its own simulation. This recursive possibility makes it seem highly unlikely that ...
This piece is excerpted from National Geographic's Book of Magic and the Occult: A Visual History. He’s the most famous magician to ever live, but few realize that Harry Houdini (1874–1926) began life ...
Is this real life? Is this just fantasy? A growing number of scientists are suggesting that the idea that we are all living in a simulation may not be completely far-fetched. Simulation theory is the ...
Get a first look at video and photos of Broadway star and multiple Drama Desk nominee Ryan Silverman (Broadway’s Side Show, Chicago, The Phantom of the Opera) as the most famous illusionist and ...
The famed escapologist had a reputation for death-defying stunts. But his rise to fame and sudden death both came with some unexpected twists. A daring escapeBound in chains, Houdini is photographed ...
A new technical paper titled “Modeling and Simulating Emerging Memory Technologies: A Tutorial” was published by researchers at TU Dortmund, TU Dresden, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and FAU ...
The rapid growth in scale and complexity of both computational and observational astrophysics over the past decade necessitates efficient and intuitive methods for examining and visualizing large data ...