Are we living in a computer simulation? This physicist says his study supports the theory

What if everything we experience in the world was nothing more than an elaborate simulated reality?

The simulation hypothesis isn’t a novel idea and it’s enjoyed some mainstream appeal through movies like The Matrix and high-profile proponents like Elon Musk.

Now a physicist working at the University of Portsmouth in the UK has published research in the AIP Advances journal that he says provides support to the strange theory.

“I don't want to paraphrase Morpheus from The Matrix but he said 'what is real?'" the Associate Professor of Physics, Dr Melvin Vopson, said.

"All the senses that we have, they're just electrical signals that are being decoded by our brains. What this is is a biological computer. There's nothing more," he added.

Dr Vopson's work belongs to a branch of science known as information physics which posits that everything in the universe is fundamentally made up of bits of information.

According to Dr Vopson's 2nd Law of Infodynamics, or information dynamics, information content associated with any system, event or process in the universe is minimised.

The physicist first noticed this behaviour while studying COVID genome mutations. Contrary to Darwinian consensus, Dr Vopson observed that these mutations are not random and always result in a reduction in entropy which is the measure of disorder in an isolated system.

This would contradict the second law of thermodynamics, a central tenet of scientific thinking, which establishes that entropy can only increase or stay the same.

"The second law of information dynamics requires all systems, including biological life, to evolve in a way that their information entropy and information content, if you want, shrinks and is reduced to the optimal, most optimal possible