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from Popular Mechanics<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Scientist Says He Has the Evidence That We Live in a Simulation<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cSecond Law of Infodynamics\u201d could prove it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BY\u00a0DARREN ORF<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Andriy Onufriyenko\/\/Getty Images<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the 1999 film The Matrix<\/em>, Thomas Anderson (a.k.a. Neo) discovers a truth to end all truths\u2014the universe is a simulation. While this premise provides fantastic sci-fi<\/a> fodder (and explains how Neo can learn kung-fu in about five seconds<\/a>), the idea isn\u2019t quite as carefully relegated to the fiction section as one might expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Portsmouth scientist Melvin Vopson, who studies the possibility that the universe might indeed be a digital facsimile, leans into the cinematic comparison. In an article published on website\u00a0The Conversation<\/em><\/u><\/a>\u00a0this past October, Vopson invoked the Wachowskis\u2019 sci-fi masterpiece, and around the same time, he published a book on the subject\u2014Reality Reloaded<\/a><\/em>, a subtle hat tip to the title of the less successful\u00a0Matrix\u00a0<\/em>sequel. While he is just one among many who\u2019ve contemplated the idea, Vopson claims to have one thing that those before him lacked:\u00a0evidence<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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