Dec 28, 2023 11:13 PM
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/...ve-it.html
EXCERPTS: . . . That's according to Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth. Our lives contains several clues that suggest we're merely characters in an advanced virtual world, he claims – and he's planning an experiment to prove it.
For example, the fact there's limits to how fast light and sound can travel suggest they may be governed by the speed of a computer processor, according to the expert. The laws of physics that govern the universe are also akin to computer code, he says, while elementary particles that make up matter are like pixels.
One of the most convincing clues, however, is the symmetry that we observe in the everyday world, from butterflies to flowers, snowflakes and starfish. Symmetry is everywhere because it's how the machines 'render the digitally constructed world', Professor Vopson told MailOnline. 'This abundance of symmetry (rather than asymmetry) in the universe is something that has never been explained,' he said.
[...] The academic also thinks the bizarre and little-understood world of quantum mechanics suggests life is not what it seems. Namely, he points to quantum entanglement – a weird physical phenomenon that legendary physicist Albert Einstein described as 'spooky action at a distance'.
[...] The professor explains: 'Quantum entanglement allows two particles to be spookily connected so that if you manipulate one, you automatically and immediately also manipulate the other, no matter how far apart they are – with the effect being seemingly faster than the speed of light, which should be impossible. This could, however, be explained by the fact that within a virtual reality code, all “locations” (points) should be roughly equally far from a central processor. So while we may think two particles are millions of light years apart, they wouldn’t be if they were created in a simulation.'
Professor Vopson has already argued that information is the fifth state of matter, behind solid, liquid, gas and plasma. This could be key to an experiment he hopes could prove that we are living in a computer simulation.
[...] Professor Vopson has outlined his hypothesis in a new book, published in September, called 'Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe'.
[...] In 2022, Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, established a new law of physics, called the 'second law of information dynamics' to explain how information behaves. His law establishes that the 'entropy', or disorder, in a system of information decreases rather than increases.
This new law came as somewhat of a surprise, because it's the opposite of the second law of thermodynamics established in the 1850s, which explains why we cannot unscramble an egg or why a glass cannot unbreak itself. As it turns out, the second law of infodynamics explains the behaviour of information in a way that the old law cannot.
'The second law of infodynamics requires the minimisation of the information content associated with any event or process in the universe,' he told MailOnline. 'To put it simply, everything appears to evolve to an equilibrium state where the information content is minimal.
'Such behaviour is fully reminiscent of the rules deployed in programming languages and computer coding. Simulating a super complex universe like ours would require a built-in data optimisation and compression mechanism in order to reduce the computational power and the data storage requirements to run the simulation.
'This is exactly what we are observing via empirical evidence all around us, including in digital data, biological systems, atomistic systems, mathematical symmetries, and the entire universe. This is what the second law of infodynamics reveals, so one logical conclusion is that, while not giving a definite proof, it surely underpins the simulated universe theory.' (MORE - missing details)
Melvin Vopson interview ... https://youtu.be/lYwMX3KbGBI
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lYwMX3KbGBI
EXCERPTS: . . . That's according to Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth. Our lives contains several clues that suggest we're merely characters in an advanced virtual world, he claims – and he's planning an experiment to prove it.
For example, the fact there's limits to how fast light and sound can travel suggest they may be governed by the speed of a computer processor, according to the expert. The laws of physics that govern the universe are also akin to computer code, he says, while elementary particles that make up matter are like pixels.
One of the most convincing clues, however, is the symmetry that we observe in the everyday world, from butterflies to flowers, snowflakes and starfish. Symmetry is everywhere because it's how the machines 'render the digitally constructed world', Professor Vopson told MailOnline. 'This abundance of symmetry (rather than asymmetry) in the universe is something that has never been explained,' he said.
[...] The academic also thinks the bizarre and little-understood world of quantum mechanics suggests life is not what it seems. Namely, he points to quantum entanglement – a weird physical phenomenon that legendary physicist Albert Einstein described as 'spooky action at a distance'.
[...] The professor explains: 'Quantum entanglement allows two particles to be spookily connected so that if you manipulate one, you automatically and immediately also manipulate the other, no matter how far apart they are – with the effect being seemingly faster than the speed of light, which should be impossible. This could, however, be explained by the fact that within a virtual reality code, all “locations” (points) should be roughly equally far from a central processor. So while we may think two particles are millions of light years apart, they wouldn’t be if they were created in a simulation.'
Professor Vopson has already argued that information is the fifth state of matter, behind solid, liquid, gas and plasma. This could be key to an experiment he hopes could prove that we are living in a computer simulation.
[...] Professor Vopson has outlined his hypothesis in a new book, published in September, called 'Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe'.
[...] In 2022, Melvin Vopson, an associate professor in physics at the University of Portsmouth, established a new law of physics, called the 'second law of information dynamics' to explain how information behaves. His law establishes that the 'entropy', or disorder, in a system of information decreases rather than increases.
This new law came as somewhat of a surprise, because it's the opposite of the second law of thermodynamics established in the 1850s, which explains why we cannot unscramble an egg or why a glass cannot unbreak itself. As it turns out, the second law of infodynamics explains the behaviour of information in a way that the old law cannot.
'The second law of infodynamics requires the minimisation of the information content associated with any event or process in the universe,' he told MailOnline. 'To put it simply, everything appears to evolve to an equilibrium state where the information content is minimal.
'Such behaviour is fully reminiscent of the rules deployed in programming languages and computer coding. Simulating a super complex universe like ours would require a built-in data optimisation and compression mechanism in order to reduce the computational power and the data storage requirements to run the simulation.
'This is exactly what we are observing via empirical evidence all around us, including in digital data, biological systems, atomistic systems, mathematical symmetries, and the entire universe. This is what the second law of infodynamics reveals, so one logical conclusion is that, while not giving a definite proof, it surely underpins the simulated universe theory.' (MORE - missing details)
Melvin Vopson interview ... https://youtu.be/lYwMX3KbGBI
