Are we living in a simulation? Physicist claims he has new evidence we’re simply characters in an advanced virtual world

In the blockbuster movie The Matrix, protagonist Neo, played by Keanu Reeves, discovers we’re living in a simulated reality hundreds of years from now. 

While many of us take comfort in the fact this concept is consigned to science fiction, a researcher claims it may actually be true. 

Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, claims we may be characters in an advanced virtual world.