{"id":431333,"date":"2026-01-26T19:36:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431333\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:36:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:36:23","slug":"were-living-in-a-simulation-a-scientist-argues-and-gravity-may-be-the-telltale-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/431333\/","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019re Living in a Simulation, a Scientist Argues\u2014and Gravity May Be the Telltale Evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What if gravity, the force that holds your feet to the ground and binds galaxies together, is much more than a fundamental law of nature? What if it\u2019s actually the smoking-gun clue that suggests nothing around you is as it seems?<\/p>\n

These are some of the provocative questions posed in one of Pop Mech\u2019s wildest recent stories, \u201cGravity May Be Key Evidence That Our Universe Is a Simulation, Groundbreaking New Research Suggests<\/a>.\u201d This goes much deeper than Stoner 101 philosophy and Matrix fan fiction.<\/p>\n

Watch Pop Mech editors Andrew Daniels and John Gilpatrick talk about the fascinating\u2014and highly controversial\u2014work of Melvin Vopson, the scientist who says the universe\u2019s information has mass, and gravity basically acts as a cosmic organizer, reducing entropy in ways that are just like how a computer compresses data. If that\u2019s true, gravity might be what keeps the simulation running smoothly.<\/p>\n

Andrew and John discuss this incredibly out-there story, including how Vopson doesn\u2019t profess to have the final answer, but rather, how he\u2019s asking his fellow scientists to poke holes in his theory and test the math and model. Naturally, Andrew and John do a little hole-poking themselves.<\/p>\n

Is gravity indeed the glitch in the matrix<\/a> we\u2019ve all been waiting for? Watch the full episode above to find out\u2014and watch the full episode above now\u2014and find more installments of \u201cThe Astounding Pop Mech Show<\/a>\u201d on PopularMechanics.com.<\/p>\n

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