A groundbreaking study shows that gravity may be more than just a fundamental force, but also a demonstration that our entire universe works like a megacomputer program designed to optimize information.
Dr. Melvin Vopson, a physicist at the University of Portsmouth, published a study showing that gravitational attraction may actually be a computational process built into real-life structures. His discovery appeared in AIP magazine.
“My findings in this study fit into the idea that the universe might work like a giant computer, or that our reality is a simulation of the construction,” explains Dr. Vopson. “Just like computers try to save space and run more efficiently, the universe might do the same. It’s a new way to think about gravity – not only attraction, but what happens when the universe tries to keep it organized.”
This view is based on Vopson’s previous work, showing that information itself has mass, has elementary particles (the basic building blocks of the universe), and resembles the information about itself that cells contain DNA.
New research suggests that the space itself may be “pixelized” into the basic unit that acts as a data storage. Register binary information per cell: “0” or “1” if substances are present. When multiple particles occupy nearby cells, the system is optimized by combination.
“The process is the same as the design of a digital computer game, a virtual reality application, or other advanced simulations,” Dr. Vopson noted.
This efficiency mechanism can explain why objects are attracted to each other. “Due to the rules set in the computing system, the information content needs to be minimized and, by extension, reduced computing power, triggers attractiveness,” Dr. Vopson notes. “Simply put, tracking and computing the position and momentum of a single object in the space is more efficient than computing than many objects. Therefore, it seems that gravity attraction is just another optimization mechanism with compressed information during the calculation process.”
The theory relies on the second law of information dynamics, which suggests that matter and objects may be aggregated, as the universe has been trying to keep information neat and compressed, which actually minimizes the cosmic data storage requirements.
Although speculative, this study provides a novel explanation of why gravity exists at all and links it to information theory and computational science. These implications go beyond gravity and can explain other cosmological mysteries, such as dark matter, dark energy, and black hole thermodynamics.
The notion that reality may be complex simulations is not entirely new – tech entrepreneurs like Elon Musk have previously expressed support for similar theories. However, Vopson’s research provides a concrete mathematical framework that can eventually be tested.
For now, whether we live in the Ultimate Computer Program remains an open scientific question, but this study provides compelling reasons to consider the possibility that information organization may be the hidden code behind the most fundamental power of the universe.
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