University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson proposes a new way to think about gravity — not just as a pull, but as something that happens when the Universe is trying to stay organized.
This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The possibility that the entire Universe is informational in nature and resembles a computational process is a popular theory among a number of well-known figures.
The thinking comes from within a branch of science known as information physics, which suggests physical reality is actually made up of structured information.
The thinking comes from within a branch of science known as information physics, which suggests physical reality is actually made up of structured information.
