May 19, 2025 01:37 AM
Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation? My new study suggests why this might be so.
https://theconversation.com/could-gravit...-so-255913
EXCERPTS (Melvin M. Vopson): . . . In a 2023 paper, I used information theory to propose my second law of infodynamics.
This stipulates that information "entropy", or the level of information disorganisation, will have to reduce or stay static within any given closed information system. This is the opposite of the popular second law of thermodynamics, which dictates that physical entropy, or disorder, always increases.
[...] In simulations, that's exactly what occurs when a system tries to function more efficiently. So, matter flowing under the influence of gravity need not be a result of a force at all. Perhaps it is a function of the way the universe compacts the information that it has to work with.
Here, space is not continuous and smooth. Space is made up of tiny "cells" of information, similar to pixels in a photo or squares on the screen of a computer game. In each cell is basic information about the universe – where, say, a particle is – and all are gathered together to make the fabric of the universe.
If you place items within this space, the system gets more complex. But when all of those items come together to be one item instead of many, the information is simple again.
The universe, under this view, tends to naturally seek to be in those states of minimal information entropy. The real kicker is that if you do the numbers, the entropic "informational force" created by this tendency toward simplicity is exactly equivalent to Newton's law of gravitation, as shown in my paper... (MORE - missing details)
PAPER (the most recent one): https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/...l-universe
https://youtu.be/5vD9t-ao1bI
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/5vD9t-ao1bI
https://theconversation.com/could-gravit...-so-255913
EXCERPTS (Melvin M. Vopson): . . . In a 2023 paper, I used information theory to propose my second law of infodynamics.
This stipulates that information "entropy", or the level of information disorganisation, will have to reduce or stay static within any given closed information system. This is the opposite of the popular second law of thermodynamics, which dictates that physical entropy, or disorder, always increases.
[...] In simulations, that's exactly what occurs when a system tries to function more efficiently. So, matter flowing under the influence of gravity need not be a result of a force at all. Perhaps it is a function of the way the universe compacts the information that it has to work with.
Here, space is not continuous and smooth. Space is made up of tiny "cells" of information, similar to pixels in a photo or squares on the screen of a computer game. In each cell is basic information about the universe – where, say, a particle is – and all are gathered together to make the fabric of the universe.
If you place items within this space, the system gets more complex. But when all of those items come together to be one item instead of many, the information is simple again.
The universe, under this view, tends to naturally seek to be in those states of minimal information entropy. The real kicker is that if you do the numbers, the entropic "informational force" created by this tendency toward simplicity is exactly equivalent to Newton's law of gravitation, as shown in my paper... (MORE - missing details)
PAPER (the most recent one): https://pubs.aip.org/aip/adv/article/15/...l-universe
https://youtu.be/5vD9t-ao1bI
