We have long been admitted that gravity is one of the original forces of nature – one of the invisible thread that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is just some more fundamental: a by -product of the universe working under the code like a computer.
This is the basis of my latest research, AIP published in Advance magazineIt suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects to each other, but the product of a informative law of nature that I call the second law of infodionamics.
It is an assumption that looks like science fiction – but a one that is based in physics and evidence that the universe works suspiciously like a computer simulation. In digital technologies, just below the apps in the world of your phone and cyberspace, efficiency is important. Computer memory and computer power compact and restructuring your data at all times to save. Perhaps the same is happening in the universe?
Information theory, mathematical study of information, storage and communication of information, can help us understand what is going on. Originally Mathematician developed by Claude ShannonIt has become increasingly popular in physics and is used in the growing limit of research areas.
One in 2023 paperI used the information theory to propose my second law to propose Infodynamics. It determines that information “entropy”, or information clutter, will remain stable or stable within any closed information system. It is contrary to the second law of thermodynamics, which determines that physical entropy, or disorder, always grows.
Take a cooling cup of coffee. The energy flows from hot to cold until the temperature of coffee is not the same as room temperature and its energy is minimal – a state called thermal balance. The entrape of the system is maximum at this point – all molecules have maximum energy, the same energy. This means that the spread of energy per molecule in the liquid decreases.
If one considers the information material of each molecule on the basis of his energy, initially, in the hot cup of coffee, the information entropy is maximum and the information entrape in balance is minimal. This is because almost all molecules are at the same energy level, forming similar characters in an informative message. Therefore, the spread of various energies available decreases when there is a thermal balance.
But if we consider just location instead of energy, there is a lot of information disorder when particles are distributed randomly in space – the information required to keep pace with them is enough. When they consolidate themselves together under gravity attraction, however, the way the planets, stars and galaxies do, the information becomes compressed and more manageable.
In simulation, this happens exactly when a system tries to function more efficiently. Therefore, the substance flowing under the influence of gravity should not be the result of a force. Perhaps this is a task in the way the universe compacts the information with which it has to work.
Here, the space is not constant and smooth. Space is made up of small “cells” of information, a photo has the same as pixel or similar to squares on a computer game screen. Each cell has basic information about the universe – where, says, there is a particle – and all are collected together to make clothes of the universe.
If you place the item within this location, the system becomes more complex. But when all those items become an item instead of many objects, the information is simple again.
The universe, under this scene, naturally seek minimal information in those states of entropy. The real kicker is that if you do numbers, the entry of the “informative force” made by this trend towards simplicity is equal to the law of gravity of Newton, As shown in my paper,
This principle creates on earlier studies of “entropic gravity”, but goes one step forward. In connecting the dynamics of information with gravity, we are leading to interesting conclusions that the universe can follow any kind of cosmic software. In an artificial universe, maximum-deficit rules will be expected. Emotion will be expected. Compression will be expected. And law -yani, gravity – will be expected to emerge from these computational rules.
We do not yet have certain evidence that we live in a simulation. But the deeper we look, the more we behave like our universe A computational process,
Melvin M. Vopson Is an associate professor of physics University of portsmouthThis article has been reinstated Conversation Under a Creative Commons License. read the Original article,
