https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1701758

And in English:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/science/physicists-find-were-not-living-in-a-computer-simulation/

#1, I recently read that 95% of the world's population believe in God (still). That made me depressed.

#2, I'm not sure how widely accepted multiverse theory is. My main interest is what caused the Big Bang, and why? And if there are other universes.