From earth.com, May 8:
Modern ideas about reality sometimes sound like a wild story. The notion that everything around us might be bits and bytes is easy to brush aside, yet it continues to intrigue many curious minds.
This perspective has led some researchers to wonder if physical forces might be signals of an underlying information system.
According to physicist Melvin M. Vopson of the University of Portsmouth, certain features of gravity may hint at information contained in a universal computational code.
Does gravity hold information?
Many scientists have explored unconventional interpretations of gravity. They have argued that it might emerge from a principle of data organization instead of being a traditional force.
In this view, the fabric of space might function like an information grid. If bits of matter or energy are arranged in a chaotic way, the grid has to track excessive details, so the system looks for simpler states that require fewer data points.
If space is made of discrete units – like pixels in a digital image – then every object we see is built from a finite set of positions and states. This idea challenges the old belief that space is smooth and continuous.
It also suggests that the universe doesn’t just follow rules – it might actually be running instructions. In that view, everything from stars to atoms could be behaving the way they do because they’re following coded commands.Infodynamics as a guiding concept....
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Do we turn it off and on to get it to reboot?
