Scientists at the University of British Columbia Okanagan say they’ve found a mathematical limit that shuts down the Simulation Hypothesis entirely. Drawing on Gödel’s incompleteness theorem, their ...

For centuries, mathematics was seen as the one field built on absolute certainty. But a deeper look into logic reveals a flaw at the core of the entire system one that even the greatest minds couldn’t ...

The idea that our Universe might be nothing more than a giant computer simulation, similar to what science fiction depicts, has captivated minds for several years. A recent study conducted at the ...

"Does Future Lie in the Past?" This is the title of an international conference in Vienna that combines logic, computer science and physics featuring speakers such as Nobel laureate Rainer Weiss, ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is moving fast—faster than many of us ever imagined. It can diagnose diseases from images, write complex computer programs, predict market trends and help simulate the ...

Kurt Gödel hated when things didn’t add up. The Austrian mathematician’s incompleteness theorem, published in 1931, revealed a shadow world of numbers, beyond the reach of determinism and logic. Gödel ...

I’d like to add another interesting synthesis of logic and faith to Mike Kerrigan’s “God and Math at Dinner” (op-ed, Jan. 5). Gödel’s incompleteness theorems prove that certain mathematical methods ...