Overview

• Dr. Melvin Vopson's paper, published April 25, 2025, in AIP Advances, posits that gravity arises as a data compression mechanism in a computational universe.
• The theory builds on Vopson's second law of information dynamics, which states that information entropy decreases over time, contrasting with thermodynamic entropy.
• Gravity is reframed as an optimization process that organizes matter to reduce computational complexity, akin to how digital systems minimize data storage requirements.
• The model conceptualizes space as pixelated binary data cells, where clustering matter reduces information entropy and computational load.
• While the theory has implications for black-hole thermodynamics, dark matter, and quantum information, empirical validation and experimental tests remain pending.