{"id":215982,"date":"2025-06-16T02:04:56","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says"},"modified":"2025-06-16T02:04:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T07:04:56","slug":"the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says","title":{"rendered":"The Universe Is \u2018Suspiciously\u2019 Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-universe-is-suspiciously-like-a-computer-simulation-physicist-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature \u2013 one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.<\/p>\n<p>That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious force that attracts objects towards one another, but the product of an informational law of nature that I call the second law of infodynamics.<\/p>\n<p>It is a notion that seems like science fiction \u2013 but one that is based in physics and evidence that the universe appears to be operating suspiciously like a computer simulation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature \u2013 one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215982","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}