{"id":814257,"date":"2025-12-07T20:17:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/CEWzzDHbxB2xomPALF9SdF"},"modified":"2025-12-07T20:17:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T20:17:40","slug":"a-new-physics-paper-suggests-that-we-may-all-be-living-in-the-ultimate-4x-strategy-game-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-new-physics-paper-suggests-that-we-may-all-be-living-in-the-ultimate-4x-strategy-game-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Have you heard of the simulation hypothesis? It&apos;s the idea that the universe, as we perceive it, is essentially a form of simulated reality and it&apos;s been explored in <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/blogs\/at-the-edge\/2012\/12\/17\/proof-of-the-simulation-argument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">genuine scientific research<\/a>, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.co.uk\/books\/edition\/_\/PJYlAQAAIAAJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">philosophical texts<\/a>, and major plot devices in numerous films. Well, a new physics research paper on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/adv\/article\/13\/10\/105308\/2915332\/The-second-law-of-infodynamics-and-its\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">nature of information<\/a> claims that if its findings were to be empirically validated, it would be a major piece of evidence for the notion that we&apos;re all living in the grandest giant 4X strategy game of all time.<\/p>\n<p><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.port.ac.uk\/news-events-and-blogs\/news\/could-a-new-law-of-physics-support-the-idea-were-living-in-a-computer-simulation#:~:text=Key%20findings%20include%3A,pattern%20governed%20by%20information%20entropy.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News of the paper&apos;s release<\/a> (via <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/technology\/top-physicist-publishes-evidence-that-we-re-living-in-a-computer-simulation\/ar-AA1nnxoy?ocid=msedgdhp&#038;pc=U531&#038;cvid=1ceac088077c4306b0a51bb194d19ff4&#038;ei=25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MSN<\/a>) has been understandably popular in general science reporting. The researcher in question, Dr Melvin Vorpon, has spent a good portion of his career in physics investigating information theory, going as far as to propose a universal law called <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/adv\/article\/12\/7\/075310\/2819368\/Second-law-of-information-dynamics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the second law of information dynamics<\/a>, based on an earlier theory of his called the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pubs.aip.org\/aip\/adv\/article\/9\/9\/095206\/1076232\/The-mass-energy-information-equivalence-principle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">mass-energy-information equivalence principle<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The gist of that is information is the same as energy, and thus has mass; Dr Vorpon has suggested that this could be explored in an experiment by which information is removed from a storage device, which is recorded for any changes in mass.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vorpon is convinced, as one would expect, that his findings have significant implications (for example, the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chandra.harvard.edu\/blog\/node\/713\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&apos;missing mass&apos; problem<\/a> in cosmology is apparently solved by his theory), not least being the suggestion that, should his work be validated, then it would go a long way to showing that the simulation hypothesis is more than a mere idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The second law of infodynamics appears to be manifesting universally and is, in fact, a cosmological necessity, we could conclude that this points to the fact that the entire universe appears to be a simulated construct,&#8221; he writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A super complex universe like ours, if it were a simulation, would require a built-in data optimization and compression mechanism in order to reduce the computational power and the data storage requirements.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Dr Vorpon doesn&apos;t exactly present an overwhelming amount of evidence to back up the latter\u2014his suggestion that the prevalence of symmetry in nature is essentially tantamount to a compression algorithm is about the size of it\u2014but his work certainly makes one ponder just exactly what would a computer running the universe be like.<\/p>\n<p>The CPU alone would need quite a few cores and the clock speed would be pretty high too, as processes in the sub-atomic world take place over such short periods that anything running in the GHz region would be millions of orders too slow.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fancy-box\">\n<div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Your next machine<\/div>\n<div class=\"fancy_box_body\">\n<figure class=\"van-image-figure \" >\n<div class='image-full-width-wrapper'>\n<div class='image-widthsetter' >\n<p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"xXhrEsP3nMY9e43WUFUxSC\" name=\"gaming-pc-group-shot.jpg\" caption=\"\" alt=\"Gaming PC group shot\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/a-new-physics-paper-suggests-that-we-may-all-be-living-in-the-ultimate-4x-strategy-game-after-all.jpg\" mos=\"\" link=\"\" align=\"\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"pinterest-pin-exclude\"><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\"\"><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: Future)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-pc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming PC<\/strong><\/a>: The top pre-built machines.<br \/>\n<a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-gaming-laptop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Best gaming laptop<\/strong><\/a>: Great devices for mobile gaming.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Then there&apos;s the sheer amount of memory, RAM or non-volatile storage, required to keep track of every single particle in the whole universe. And imagine how much energy would be used to run it? It&apos;d make a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/graphics-cards\/nvidias-next-gen-ai-superchips-will-reportedly-consume-up-to-1000w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">1000 W superchip<\/a> look absolutely lightweight, in comparison.<\/p>\n<p>But is the universe really a simulation or a computer game, played by an errant mega-being or two in another dimension? If it&apos;s the latter, my money&apos;s on it being a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/best-4x-games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">4X strategy game<\/a>, like an ultimate version of <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/civilization-6-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Civilization 6<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, I wouldn&apos;t be in the least bit surprised if it turns out the universe is actually just an extremely grindy MMORPG and humanity is still a couple of billions of years away from accumulating enough experience points to hit the next level.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pcgamer.com\/hardware\/a-new-physics-paper-suggests-that-we-may-all-be-living-in-the-ultimate-4x-strategy-game-after-all\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard of the simulation hypothesis? It&apos;s the idea that the universe, as we perceive it, is essentially a form of simulated reality and it&apos;s been explored in genuine scientific research, philosophical texts, and major plot devices in numerous films. Well, a new physics research paper on the nature of information claims that if its findings were to be empirically validated, it would be a major piece of evidence for the notion that we&apos;re all living in the grandest giant 4X strategy game of all time. News of the paper&apos;s release (via MSN) has been understandably popular in general science reporting. The researcher in question, Dr Melvin Vorpon, has spent a good portion of his career in physics investigating information theory, going as far&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/a-new-physics-paper-suggests-that-we-may-all-be-living-in-the-ultimate-4x-strategy-game-after-all\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":814258,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-814257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc-gamer","tag-hardware"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A new physics paper suggests that we may all be living in the ultimate 4X strategy game after all | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Have you heard of the simulation hypothesis? 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