His latest addition to the simulation hypothesis revealed a potential new role for gravity. “If you take an area of space with some objects in it, they will have information entropy associated with this information,” Vopson says. But if the objects cluster together due to gravity, that information entropy is reduced, so the objects will have more order, he says. So perhaps these genetic mutations are evidence of that optimization at work, since mutations appeared to decrease information entropy. Deeper processes, perhaps one like the Second Law of Infodynamics, are what give rise to gravity, Vopson argues.