‘WHERE ONCE THERE WAS GOD, NOW THERE IS CODE’
THE LURE OF LIFE IN THE MATRIX

The urge to believe that we may be programmed is, at its heart, a crisis of meaning, writes Iain Overton

A quietly unsettling paper recently appeared in AIP Advances, an open-access, peer-reviewed scientific mega journal published by the American Institute of Physics. Its author, Dr Melvin Vopson of the University of Portsmouth, proposed a theory that, if true, could upend our understanding of gravity – and perhaps even God.

Gravity, he argued, is not a force acting at a distance, nor a curvature of space-time, but a computational process: the universe may function like a cosmic computer, drawing matter together to reduce informational complexity.

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