The idea that maybeand just maybe, our universe and everything that surrounds us in our lives is a virtual simulationhas been going around between communities of scientists and philosophers for several decades, and has raised numerous theories and conspiraciesespecially since the premiere of the film ‘Matrix’ in 1999. A film that emphasized this possibility and made many begin to think about it with the turn of the millenniumthe advancement of technology and AIs and the increasingly immersive video games that came to the market, such as The Sims.
Now, based on statements and studies by Dr. Melvin Vopsonphysicist and professor licensed by the University of Portsmouth who has been dealing with this issue for years, there is hope that he has discovered new clues that we really could be living in a simulation…
Physicist Melvin Vopson presents clues that the entire known universe may actually be a simulated construct.
In 2022, Melvin Vopson published an important study that proposed a possible experiment to try to scientifically prove that our physical reality is a simulated construction, rather than a world that exists independently of the observer. To date, the experiment has not been tested yetbut Dr. Vopson has returned to the fray with another research, this one published in AIP Advancesin which it uses as a basis the information theory developed by the mathematician Claude Shannon to propose a new law of physics.
Vopson has named this law the name of “second law of infodynamics” and in it, as he explains, it is of vital importance “he concept of entropya measure of disorder that always increases with time in an isolated system”. To understand it, the physicist mentions that when one leaves a hot cup of coffee on the table, after a while it finds the balance, since it ends up reaching the same temperature as the environment. That is, the entropy of the system is maximum at that point and its energy is minimal.
For this reason, the second law of infodynamics establishes “that ‘information entropy’ (the average amount of information transmitted by an event) must remain constant or decrease over time, to a minimum value at equilibrium. Therefore, it is in total opposition to the second law of thermodynamics (that heat always flows spontaneously from hot to cold regions of matter as entropy increases)”.
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Vopson’s second law of infodynamics appears to apply to all parts in the same way, which concludes that the entire universe appears to be a simulated construct or a giant computer.
How would what was explained be understood? Returning to the previous example, this time the physicist argues: “For a refreshing cup of coffee, scattering means the chances of locating a molecule in the liquid are reduced. This is because the dispersion of available energies is reduced when there is thermal balance. So, the entropy of information always decreases with time as entropy increases“.
According to Vopson, his law will be a cosmological necessity of universal application and immense scientific ramifications showing that information entropy must exist to balance the constant entropy increase in the universe. Not only that, but the doctor points out that his law could confirm how genetic information and genetic mutations behave, in theory produced because the entropy of the information of the genome is always minimized. This would indicate that the mutations They are not just random events.as Darwin’s theory suggested.
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According to Vopson, his discovery has huge implications for genetic research, evolutionary biology, genetic therapies, physics, mathematics or cosmology.
This new law would also give mathematical answer Why does symmetry predominate in the universe and not asymmetry? “High symmetry states are the preferred option because These states correspond to the lowest information entropy. And, as dictated by the second law of infodynamics, that is what a system will naturally look for.”points out the physicist.
In summing upfor Vopson there is only one possibility, and that is that if a complex universe like the one we know were a simulation, it would need data optimization and compression to reduce computing power and data storage requirements, and that is “exactly what we are observing around usincluding digital data, biological systems, mathematical symmetries, and the entire universe.”.
However, and although the professor’s discovery could be a pioneer in this fieldbeing the first time that scientific evidence is produced that supports the hypothesis of the simulated universe (as Vopson already developed in his book ‘Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe’), More studies are still needed before definitively stating that we live in a simulation or that the second law of infodynamics is as fundamental as the second law of thermodynamics.
