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Physical theory Melvin Vopson suggests that gravity arises when multiple particles occupy a single pixel in space-time, leading the “computer” of the universe to consolidate them on an object, as if it were an zip file.
A new theory provoking physicist Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth suggests that gravity – one of the most fundamental forces in the universe – could be the Result of Computational Optimization in a simulated reality.
O, published in the magazine AIP Advances, explores the possibility of our universe to behave as a giant computerwith gravity acting as a data compression mechanism.
The concept is based on Vopson’s in research on the simulation hypothesis, the idea that reality as we perceive it can be a highly sophisticated digital construction. In his last article, Vopson argues that gravity may not be a basic force of nature, but a byproduct of the universe’s attempt to minimize information entropy – the digital equivalent of disorganization – efficiently organizing matter and energy.
“Just as computers try to save space and work more efficiently, the universe may be doing the same,” said Vopson. “It’s a New way of thinking about gravitynot only as a tug, but as something that happens when the universe is trying to stay organized. ”
This work is based on a 2022 proposal by Vopson and the mathematician Serban Lepadatu, in which they introduced “segundate lie to infedom”This law, modeled from the second law of thermodynamics, suggests that instead of increasing entropy, the universe can strive to reduce information entropy over time, essentially in search of greater informative order.
A central idea in Vopson’s theory is that The information has mass and can be considered a form of matter. The theory compares the elementary particles-the smallest blocks of known matter-to a computer bits, each representing a 1 or 0, depending on whether a spacetime pixel contains matter, explains.
According to this point of view, gravity arises when multiple particles occupy a single pixel in space-timeleading the computational system of the universe to consolidate them in a single object. This reduces global information content and, consequently, the computational load, just as a zip file compresses the data.
Although gravity is widely observable and measurable, its true nature remains difficult to understand. Vopson’s theory offers an alternative perspective that combines physics with information theorypotentially opening new ways to understand phenomena not fully explained by general relativity or quantum mechanics.
