{"id":194580,"date":"2024-08-15T03:22:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/law-of-infodynamics-supports-theory-that-we-are-living-in-a-simulation"},"modified":"2024-08-15T03:22:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T08:22:47","slug":"law-of-infodynamics-supports-theory-that-we-are-living-in-a-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/law-of-infodynamics-supports-theory-that-we-are-living-in-a-simulation","title":{"rendered":"Law of \u201cInfodynamics\u201d Supports Theory That We Are Living in a Simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/law-of-infodynamics-supports-theory-that-we-are-living-in-a-simulation.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 universe 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 physics, which suggests physical reality 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":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,2019,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194580","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\/194580","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}