New theory of information physics could solve cosmology's gravity crisis: Controversial theory suggests gravity is data compression

In recent years, a new paradigm in gravitational physics research emerged from information theory and information physics developments. Using the second law of information dynamics and the mass–energy–information equivalence principle, gravitational attraction can be interpreted as a data compression process that minimizes the information entropy associated with matter distributions in space. In this framework, matter evolves toward configurations that reduce informational complexity, producing an entropic force that manifests macroscopically as gravity. Remarkably, this information-theoretic approach naturally recovers Newton’s law of gravitation, suggesting that gravity may arise from fundamental information dynamics and may represent a computational optimization process occurring within the physical universe.