Loading...Everything is information – (digital physics)
If you had a magic microscope that could see how things work on the tiniest scale in nature, you might get a bit of a surprise. Right at the bottom, holding everything together, is something we think of as abstract: information.
The idea that has big thinkers all worked up is that everything in physics is made up of atoms of information. Any experiment or observation can be boiled down to asking a yes/no question, and the answer is a piece of information analogous to the 0 and 1 binary digits (bits) that computers process.
Ultimately, the universe works as a giant computer, with answers to questions such as “Did the photon pass through this point?” providing the digital information to be processed. Constructing the full range of binary answers to questions the universe might pose will take a while, but it might provide an entirely new way to simplify
– and thus understand
– the fundamentals of how everything works.
– go figure…
“According to this theory, the universe can be conceived of as either the output of a deterministic or probabilistic computer program, a vast, digital computation device, or mathematically isomorphic to such a device.”
Interesting idea, questions and answers – information entropy will be the ultimate fate of the Universe mark (then lose) my words