A physicist from the University of Portsmouth has suggested that a new law of physics could support the widely debated theory that humans are merely symbols in an advanced virtual world. The hypothesis of a simulated universe posits that human experience is an artificial reality akin to a computer simulation.
This theory has gained popularity not only among well-known figures, such as Elon Musk, but also within the field of science known as the physics of information. This field proposes that physical reality is composed of information bits.
Dr. Melvin Vopson, who previously argued that information possesses mass and that all elementary particles contain information similar to human DNA, made a groundbreaking discovery in 2022. He identified a new law of physics capable of predicting genetic mutations in organisms and evaluating their potential consequences.
Initially, based on the second law of thermodynamics, Dr. Vopson expected entropy in information systems to continually increase over time. However, after studying the development of these systems, he observed that entropy either remains constant or decreases. This led to the formulation of the second law of information dynamics, which could have significant implications for research in genetics and the theory of evolution.
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