Wild Study Claims Gravity Is Proof The Universe Is A Big Computer Simulation

File this one under "fun to think about, probably not changing your day job": a new study just dropped that suggests gravity itself might be the smoking gun that our entire universe is one big computational simulation. Yep, we're talking simulation theory again — the idea that reality is just a very elaborate piece of code running on some cosmic mainframe. And this time, the argument isn't philosophical navel-gazing or sci-fi speculation, but a physics paper with some serious math under the hood.

The study, published in AIP Advances by physicist Melvin Vopson, leans on something called the "second law of infodynamics" — basically, a rule that says information entropy (a measure of randomness or disorder in information) tends to decrease in isolated systems. That sounds like the opposite of the second law of thermodynamics, which says physical entropy tends to increase, but stay with us. Vopson argues that in ...