What if gravity were informed by the way matter was arranged in the universe, and a sign that we were living in a reality composed by a computational process? In a new article published in the journal AIP Advances, University of Portsmouth physicist Melvin Vopson offered a new interpretation of gravity, arguing that it could be the result of the universe trying to make itself less cluttered, thereby behaving much like a computer. "This is another example of data compression and computational optimization in our universe, which supports the possibility of a simulated or computational universe," he wrote. Vopson's article […]