{"id":173847,"date":"2023-10-09T13:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/could-a-new-law-of-physics-support-the-idea-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation"},"modified":"2023-10-09T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T18:26:15","slug":"could-a-new-law-of-physics-support-the-idea-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/could-a-new-law-of-physics-support-the-idea-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Could a new law of physics support the idea we\u2019re living in a computer simulation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/could-a-new-law-of-physics-support-the-idea-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A University of Portsmouth physicist has explored whether a new law of physics could support the much-debated theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world.<\/p>\n<p>The simulated <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/universe\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">universe<\/a> hypothesis proposes that what humans experience is actually an artificial reality, much like a computer simulation, in which they themselves are constructs.<\/p>\n<p>The theory is popular among a number of well-known figures including Elon Musk, and within a branch of science known as information <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physics\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physics<\/a>, which suggests <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/physical+reality\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physical reality<\/a> is fundamentally made up of bits of information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University of Portsmouth physicist has explored whether a new law of physics could support the much-debated theory that we are simply characters in an advanced virtual world. The simulated universe hypothesis proposes that what humans experience is actually an artificial reality, much like a computer simulation, in which they themselves are constructs. The theory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-elon-musk","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}