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OT: Order vs Entropy - Gravity says, not so fast. YES, obviously, we are living in a simulation, but what will you differently now that you know that??? pic.twitter.com/3GzyV2APvD — Peter H. Diamandis, MD (@PeterDiamandis) November 2, 2025 If this is true, then what would be your evidence? (Dave Chappelle voice) Gravity May Be Key Evidence That Our Universe Is a Simulation, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests If it’s true, this work could have ramifications for some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, including learning where we came from. archive.is For the past six years, Melvin Vopson, Ph.D., a physicist at the University of Portsmouth in the U.K.— has been trying to construct this crucial piece of empirical infrastructure. His latest addition to the idea revealed a potential new role for gravity. In a paper he published in AIP Advances in April, Vopson explores the idea that gravitational attraction effectively reduces information entropy—in other words, it enforces computational order on information chaos. Entropy is a measure of disorder in an isolated system. For example, if you have a well-ordered room, it has low entropy. But over time, the room becomes messier, without expending energy to keep it neat. Its increasing disorganization indicates a rise in entropy. This idea extends to information, Vopson says, but inversely. “If you take an area of space with some objects in it, they will have information entropy associated with this information,” Vopson says. That information registers the properties of matter in space, such as velocity and position. Information has a really tiny mass, but it’s enough to be measurable, according to the paper. But if the objects cluster together due to gravity, that information entropy is reduced, and so they will have more order, he says. Time says, now wait a minute bro. That's not what he said. Why Does Time Only Move In One Direction? BY SOPHIE WEINER PUBLISHED: OCT 01, 2016 10:24 AM EDT A video from MinutePhysics asks the question: why does time move forward? And furthermore, why does it never move backward? The answer: it's all about entropy. Though in microscopic physics, time is treated as directionally neutral--it doesn't matter which direction it's going--the Second Law of Thermodynamics explains why time moves forward only in our visible world. This law states that any substance will move from a low entropy state to a high entropy state (from order to chaos) over time. What does that mean for our universe? If we are inevitably moving to a high entropy state, that would imply that we currently are in a lower entropy state, and that earlier in time our universes' entropy was even lower. MinutePhysics explains that before the Big Bang, the universe was very orderly, as all matter was pressed closely together, it had to be organized and regular. Since then, our universe has been moving towards greater entropy, with matter clumping together and spreading apart in increasingly chaotic ways. This means that eventually, we will reach the highest entropic state possible, which is nothingness.