journal article·2025-04-01Open access

Is gravity evidence of a computational universe?

Melvin M. Vopson

AIP Advances· Volume 15· Issue 4

Abstract

Using the second law of information dynamics and the mass–energy–information equivalence principle, we show that gravitational attraction manifests as a requirement to reduce the information entropy of matter objects in space. This is another example of data compression and computational optimization in our universe, which supports the possibility of a simulated or computational universe. Here, we derive Newton’s gravitational force from information dynamics and show that gravity emerges as an entropic information force governed by the second law of infodynamics. This is fully aligned with Verlinde’s entropic gravity studies published in 2011 but is demonstrated here via a different approach.
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Research context

OpenAlex topics: Cosmology and Gravitation Theories · Black Holes and Theoretical Physics · Relativity and Gravitational Theory

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Affiliations

School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Portsmouth , PO1 3QL Portsmouth, and , Gosport,

Information Physics Institute , PO1 3QL Portsmouth, and , Gosport,

Funding

Information Physics Institute · Indiegogo · University of Portsmouth

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