The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says

We have long taken it for granted that gravity is one of the basic forces of nature – one of the invisible threads that keeps the universe stitched together. But suppose that this is not true. Suppose the law of gravity is simply an echo of something more fundamental: a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code. That is the premise of my latest research, published in the journal AIP Advances. It suggests that gravity is …

Ed Fredkin and the Foundations of Digital Philosophy: The Universe as Computation

Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen Publication (Outlet/Website): The New Enlightenment Project Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2025/05/15  Ed Fredkin (1934-2023), deceased MIT Professor and Caltech Fairchild Distinguished Scholar, can be attributed as one of the founders of Digital Philosophy. Others include Konrad Zuse and Stephen Wolfram. It is an interdisciplinary endeavour between computer science, physics, and philosophy, fundamentally ground…