New multidisciplinary research in nuclear and particle physics and cosmology has led to the development of a more accurate computer code to study the early universe.

'The universe evolves in a way that the information content in it is compressed, optimized and organized – just as computers and computer code do,' he told MailOnline.

They aimed to create a proxy of the cosmos, a Cliffs Notes version in computer code that could run in months instead of giga-years, to serve as a laboratory for studying the real universe.

Suppose the law of gravity is simply a byproduct of the universe operating under a computer-like code.

To put it simply, our world is pixelated. The laws of physics that govern everything in the universe also resemble computer code lines that a simulation would follow in the execution of the program.

I have a theory that the oldest computer code is found in the program on which our simulated universe runs. Glitches caused by incompatible code lead to some unexplained events commented on in ...

But Wolfram believes that simple computer models can reveal complex patterns in nature. It's conceivable, for example, that a simple program could reveal how the universe works.

The findings could have implications for the speculative possibility that the universe is actually a gigantic computer simulation. Underlying the mind-boggling number is an even stranger hypothesis.

But is this a viable approach? Is the universe the ultimate computer running some grand cosmic code? Join a discussion among the brightest minds in digital physics to explore math, computer ...

'The universe evolves in a way that the information content in it is compressed, optimized and organized – just as computers and computer code do,' he told MailOnline.