Could gravity be evidence that the universe is a computer simulation? My new study suggests why this might be so

By Melvin M. Vopson, Associate Professor of Physics, University of Portsmouth

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – 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.

That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is not a mysterious…

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