{"id":212799,"date":"2025-04-29T21:05:15","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gravity-may-be-a-clue-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-computer"},"modified":"2025-04-29T21:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:05:15","slug":"gravity-may-be-a-clue-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/gravity-may-be-a-clue-that-the-universe-is-a-giant-computer","title":{"rendered":"Gravity May Be a Clue That The Universe Is a Giant Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HchymI0i0p8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If we were living in a computer simulation, would we be able to tell we were living in a computer simulation? It\u2019s a question that\u2019s difficult to answer, but physicist Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth in the UK believes that he may have found a clue.<\/p>\n<p>According to his latest study, gravity could be a product of computational processes within the Universe, a by-product of the Universe\u2019s attempt to keep information and matter neatly organized in space and time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy findings in this study fit with the thought that the Universe might work like a giant computer, or our reality is a simulated construct,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/scientist-suggests-gravity-further-supports-theory-we-are-living-in-a-simulated-universe\">Vopson says<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we were living in a computer simulation, would we be able to tell we were living in a computer simulation? It\u2019s a question that\u2019s difficult to answer, but physicist Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth in the UK believes that he may have found a clue. According to his latest study, gravity could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212799","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=212799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}