Information Could Be a Fundamental Part of the Universe
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A new theoretical framework suggests that information could be a fundamental aspect of the universe, potentially related to dark energy, sparking discussion on the nature of reality and the role of information in physics.
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https://www.mdpi.com/1099-4300/26/12/1039
https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202503.0551/v1
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Wave your hand in the water: is the information about the temporary fluidic disturbance gone? Does information about the splash in the water displace other information?
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Postulated years ago a fundamental gbit; but they decided there that there could be no simultaneous encoding in a fundamental gbit.
"Existence of an information unit as a postulate of quantum theory" (2013) https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1304884110 :
> Also, our postulates unveil some connections between physics and information that remain hidden in the standard postulates, thus supporting Wheeler’s hypothesis “it from bit.”
The amplituhedron folks likely have insight on quantum geometry: spacetime (and gravity) as emergent, and you don't have to do so many Feynman diagrams because the amplituhedron describes those relations too.
I don't know how fairly recent rejections of definite causal order affect conceptions of fundamental quantum information? (Goëdel did point such out in regards to GR)