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Do we live in a simulation? This is one of those questions which has kept at least part of humanity awake at night, and which has led to a number of successful books and movies being made on the ...

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Exactly 200 years ago, a French engineer introduced an idea that would quantify the universe’s inexorable slide into decay. But entropy, as it’s currently understood, is less a fact about the world ...

This article is more than 8 years old. Verlinde's model uses this connection between thermodynamics (heat, energy and forces) and information through a mathematical method known as the holographic ...